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Inspiration
We were inspired to build NutriCampus because of the nutritional challenges we face as students on a college campus. College life is busy, and students often find themselves choosing convenience over nutrition, leading to unhealthy eating habits and a lack of energy.
What it does
NutriCampus solves this by aggregating menu information from all campus dining facilities and organizing it based on nutritional content. Then it assesses the users ideal macronutrient ranges and gives them different dining hall options that fit those ranges.
How we built it
We built the website and algorithms using react js. We got the data using Michigan Dining's open API to get real dining hall meals and locations.
Challenges we ran into
We struggled getting the data from Michigan's API because it had a lot of limitations and restrictions. We also had a hard time figuring out how to work as a team because we all had different coding backgrounds and 3/4 group members knew JavaScript but didn't know React so we had to learn a bit of it.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We were very proud of our ability to find and clean data because the data we got wasn't concise or uniform so we had to re-organize it. We were also proud of our ability to learn React and compromise as a team to each find a role. Everyone worked to their personal strengths and that made us an effective team.
What we learned
We learned how to work together and communicate effectively as a team throughout the planning phase and the development. We also learned how to use react for those of us that didn't know and learned glitch which we used to collaborate on the project. Most importantly we learned how fun hackathons can be because for most of the group this was our first real hackathon and we all enjoyed it a lot.
What's next for Nutricampus
The next steps for NutriCampus are to integrate AI to make the recommendations a little bit more personalized and allow users to have more options other than just sliders. We also need to get the product out to Michigan students and get real reviews about the effectiveness of our product.
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