Inspiration

The inspiration for this project was derived from a collective general sense of belonging in our community from our team. Finding oppourtunities to benifit and add to your community has become increasingly difficult. Even in High School finding oppourtunities to volunteer was a tedious and often difficult task. Creating a centralized application in which everyone can add benefit given their expertise is an excellent way to strengthen the community we love.

What it does

NeighbourLink is an application built with swift that uses an AI matching algorithm to match the user with a volunteer with expertise in the area of need for the user.

How we built it

The front end was done entirely in Swift and contains google maps integration, 911 access, user authentification, and much more. The backend was done in mainly Python but also used JSON files to store the database for the users and the volunteers. We built it by following the structure of the Figma that our teammate created and by creating flowcharts and really spending a lot of time planning on how we would approach the development.

Challenges we ran into

Connecting the front end to the backend and also learning swift, a language that only one person on our team really understood or knew how to write in made it quite difficult to move forward.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Creating such an impressive front end using a language none of us are very comfortable with and also fimiliarizing ourselves with API's and languages that we had never touched for the back end as well.

What we learned

Regardless of what happens, whether we win or lose, we all learned several new things not just in terms of API's and Frameworks but also just in terms of collaboration, team building, and also just the ability to power through being tired.