Inspiration
Many students at Columbia experience food insecurity. We wanted to change that. We know that as college students with chaotic lives that our last worry should be whether or not we will have a chance to eat a meal. On campus, many great
What it does
No Hungry Student allows students to post available meal swipes and request meal swipes. Students can also post events that offer free food. Students can also earn rewards for the meal swipes that they donate. A Twilio phone number allows students to receive notifications, and accept or deny meal swipe requests.
How I built it
No Hungry Student was built using Thunkable, Python, and Twilio. We first collected data from Columbia's food pantry and then sought to create a mobile app that allows the users to post meal swipes or events where food is leftover from and request meals. We able to create GUI mockups and then link logical blocks for how our mobile app should navigate the user.
Challenges I ran into
Building the GUI for the app was very challenging. Formating elements such as pictures, text, user input was very specific, to which we ran into trial and error scenarios. However, we are very content with our final project and all that we were able to accomplish.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
This is the first app that we have built! We did not think we would be able to download it, but here it is.
What I learned
I learned how to be more comfortable with Python--especially Twilio.
What's next for No Hungry Student
We would like to further work on the app so that students can one day actually use it.
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