Seniors Learn Cyber

All images of people we used are open source no attribution. We did this in hopes of distributing these materials in the future.
Alternative logo for our website. We have 4 logos in total for our 4 themes.

Inspiration

Our inspiration came from a cybersecurity curriculum for seniors that is being developed by one of our team members. After assisting her neighbor, who lost $25,000 to an international tech scam, she was motivated to create a website for distributing educational materials to help prevent similar incidents. Considering the limited resources available to senior citizens and the numerous scams targeting them daily, we aim to bridge this gap.

What it does

This website offers users approachable and accessible tips on online safety. Users can download educational pamphlets as PDFs for electronic viewing or printing. The Seniors Learn Cyber website offers many accessibility options, including different colored themes, custom AI chat bot integration, alternative text for all images, email support, and easily readable web pages.

How we built it

We created the domain for a public facing website using the domain provided by MLH, and hosted it on WordPress. We then planned the website structure, organizing our efforts around creating an accessible user interface. We were then able to design the website and set up proper user navigation, as well as add integrations for features such as a custom AI chatbot and theme changes.

Challenges we ran into

Our main challenge and significant time consumer was issues with the WordPress plugin enabling user-end theme changes. It conflicted with other plugins, used problematic cookies that led to website crashes, and had minimal documentation. Despite these hurdles, we managed to get this feature working. Other notable challenges were a slow start due to our ".us" domain lacking WHOIS privacy, difficulties with the WordPress user interface, and pulling an all-nighter of 30 hours.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud to have integrated plugins that allow our users to select the theme that is most useful to them. Kelsey is especially proud of our ability to quickly learn how to navigate WordPress, create new pages, and link them together. Sabran takes great pride in her perseverance and success in getting WordPress to function properly. Nia is particularly proud of developing a public-facing interface for the first time.