NEAR Online Pregnancy Test - Array Amigos

NEAR, the online pregnancy test is created for women in Yemen. This web page helps women find locally based resources and creates easy accessibility to an online pregnancy test.

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Inspiration

After the rigorous research we had done on Yemen and the mortality and morbidity rates increasing, we've learnt that sexual behavior and reproductive health is a taboo subject in impoverished countries. Due to this there is a lack of accessibility to the resources that pregnant women need. All of these contributing factors result in many women not having relatively healthy pregnancies and complications often arise. Which lead us to our idea.

What it does

We created an online symptom pregnancy quiz. After taking the 16 question quiz, our code will calculate and determine from symptoms selected whether the user has a high or low chance of being pregnant. Once the quiz is finished, users are able to select a region that they are located in or near and then will be directed to a safe and legitimate health center to receive all the help and support they may need for their upcoming pregnancy. Through our web page, we strive to make extremely vital things, such as pregnancy tests and medical assistance, easily accessible for those who don’t have it.

How I built it

We began this project by conducting research on how to develop a webpage using html, and then utilizing the information we found to design a base program. We then conducting research on formatting and style using css which allowed us to add elements into the webpage to make it look nicer. Finally, we learned to utilize javascript to create functions that allowed our buttons to conduct actions.

Challenges I ran into

The main challenge we ran into was learning how the three programs we used; CSS JavaScript and HTML work together as we have had experience with each of the three languages individually however never used them jointly. Where this mostly came into play was knowing how to take values from a JavaScript function and using them in the rest of our code. One instance of this was taking the value from the function which counted how many boxes were checked in the quiz and using it to determine which page the user would be redirected to.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We're proud of how we were able to come up with a clear and helpful solution to this complex problem. We're proud of how we learned how to incorporate HTML into the coding and made the whole webpage from scratch. We're proud of how we were able to work as a team and collaborated really well together.

What I learned

We learned how to effectively use javascript, html, and css to create a simple web form. And to work together to divide tasks to ensure that the project would be finished by the deadline. It also opened our eyes to the lack of resources and support in certain countries in comparison to Canada, and the USA.

What's next for NEAR Online Pregnancy Test - Array Amigos

The biggest thing that we as a group would add to our webpage if we had more time and resources, would be support for more than just for 3 major cities in Yemen. We would create an array of different cities that we found that are experiencing similar issues and then have the user search for the city that is closest to them. However due to the time constraints we decided to just focus on the 3 specific cities.

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