Inspiration
At NFCS, there have been many emergencies where we are told to stay in our classes and wait until the emergency is cleared. This has resulted in confusion, made-up stories, and occasionally slight panic. If there were a better way to inform students and teachers alike about events in the school, we would feel safer in the building.
What it does
Our app sends information to students, teachers, and parents about events occurring around the school building. You can either send a quick message for major emergencies or an explanation for non-emergencies after the fact.
How we built it
We used MIT App Inventor to create a mobile app, then we used Api’s to store information uploaded to the app.
Challenges we ran into
Originally, we used Python to code our programs. Unfortunately, our school Chromebooks had permission issues with python making us unable to properly code certain things. Due to this, we swapped over to MIT App Inventor, which worked as intended.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
I am proud of how we were able to make MIT App Inventor work after our failure trying to use Python.
What we learned
We learned how to make an API, which programs are most useful for making apps, and how to better organize information.
What's next for School Emergency App/Notifier
What's next is using make.com in order to automatically send an email to everyone summarizing what the emergency is and what you need to know
