Scholarship Finder

Inspiration

The inspiration we got from this project came from the thought of high school seniors applying for scholarships. We realized one struggle is that scholarship websites that offer scholarships can be false and hard to navigate. We wanted to create something easy for students to filter scholarships based on their needs.

What it does

Our code asks a user a bunch of questions and based on the answer to those questions our code filters scholarships they should apply to.

Challenges we ran into

One of our biggest tasks was gathering details on scholarships from the internet. We used a tool called BeautifulSoup, which helped us read through websites and pick out important scholarship details. This wasn't easy. Websites are all different, and finding the right information on each one took a lot of trial and error. We spent about 6 hours just figuring out how to do this right, making sure we could grab all the info we needed without missing anything. Building a Database.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Keeping Everything Up to Date: Scholarships change all the time. New ones are added, old ones expire, and details can change. One of the challenges we didn't expect was figuring out how to keep our database current. But we managed to do it

What we learned

We learned that coding can be fun when working as a group. We also learned we enjoy the problem-solving aspect of coding

What's next for Scholarship Finder

Next, we want a cleaner output for our users to read the scholarships, and we want to add a simple GUI to allow users to apply for all scholerships at once.

Built With

• beautiful-soup
• certifi
• python
• requests