AttendEZ

Inspiration

We were tired of filling out google forms for all out clubs and looking through multiple calendars. We also thought that people who try to disconnect from social media don't have access to information about clubs as much, because many clubs rely on social media as a way to inform their club members when club meetings are. Thus, we wanted to create a platform where people who are trying to stay far away from social media or don't want to be as distracted by it can be easily connected to events.

What it does

We made a prototype of an interactive calendar that generates codes for each event. Users can log attendance for each event using the 6 letter code generated for the event instead of going through the long process of scanning a QR code and entering their information. Ideally, we would have all school clubs use something like this and people from around the school can see the information for all the clubs they are in in the same calendar. This calendar app encourages people to go to more events and be more social because the points earned from each event creates a sense of accomplishment and makes it easy to see progress.

How we built it

We used JavaFX to make the user interface and have a file called Main.java where you can see conceptually how the code logging system works.

Challenges we ran into

We don't know any frontend or how to connect it to the backend.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Creating a frontend.

What we learned

We learned how to use github and git.

What's next for Steelhacks Project

In the future, we would like to develop the interface more since it doesn't work fully. We would also like to be connected to a database where we can store user and event information instead of relying on text files.