Inspiration
As a child of an immigrant mother, I witnessed firsthand how she struggled to immerse herself in the community. She lacked the resources and confidence to get a job, take English classes, and make new friends. Not until many years later, she realized many other immigrant women faced the same problem as her. We took this as our inspiration and used this chance to help our moms and future immigrant mothers.
What it does
Our web application is a helping tool for immigrant women to use as a platform to search government information relating to concerns for immigrants, but also allows for the users to ask and connect with volunteers, such as children of immigrants and/or other more experienced immigrants, on the application to give more tailored answers. This platform also allows immigrant women to connect with each and make friends. Also in the future to allow friends to participate in events that are hosted by volunteers or other users.
How I built it
In this project, we utilized several key web development skills, such as javascript, JSON, jquery, Figma, HTML, CSS, bootstrap, and integrated the firebase API to pull our data. We also applied agile methodologies.
Challenges I ran into
It’s not a hackathon unless you spend an immense amount of time trying to fix a minor mistake in the last hour before submission. Arms heavy, knees weak, and palms are sweaty, there’s last night’s carbonara on her sweater already. The world SEAM-ingly goes against you in your most anxious state. That’s our super cool app name, in case you didn’t get it. It’s totally not me being a dumbass for not knowing how to use firebase. Anywho, some of the challenges that we encountered include API implementation, deployment, working collaboratively on gitHub branches, and most importantly, the ideation for our project. The latter took the longest as we wanted to create an application that we could feel proud of since this theme is really relatable to all the members.
It was easy to get caught up in small details and excited about new ideas which would deter us from our main idea. As a team, we tried to be aware of our time restriction and reminded ourselves to focus on ideation to achieve the most effective solution.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We are very proud to be working on an issue that we’ve witnessed and are passionate about. Immigrant women and mothers deserve empowerment for the sacrifices they have made. We are also very proud that we stuck through the challenges and even if it took 1-2 hours to figure it out.
What I learned
Our team learned to value ideation by exploring our different ideas and taking time to look at root issues during development. Every idea deserves acknowledgement.
What's next for SEAM
Fully integrating event creation and allows users to join in on events, so the community have a chance to meet each other frequently in person.
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