Ole Safe

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  OLE SAFE

Inspiration

More than fifty percent of college students express safety concerns on campus due to the prevalence of sexual assault, hate crimes, and other threats. In order for college students to feel secure, it is crucial that they have fast and easy access to resources for communicating their problems.

What it does

• Centralized St. Olaf campus safety resources
• Quick message system to close friends in emergency situations that include the user's location
• Call Pub Safe, SARN, and the Police
• Title IX report form link

How we built it

• React Native Expo Go
• SQLite Database integration

Challenges we ran into

• Limitations of Expo Go
  • Database integration
  • Fully automated texting and calling
• React Native bugs
• Speed of user location collecting
  • Speed of reverse geocoding API

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Reverse Geocoding
• Sms and phone calling quick actions
• Graphics and icons
• User interface

What we learned

• Each of us: part of two to three new languages
• API handling
• Integrating multiple languages

What's next for Ole Safe

• No Expo Go, base-level React Native for better control
• Database to preserve data between sessions

Built With

• expo.io
• opencageapi
• react-native
• sqlite