T-Care

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Inspiration

Students often find school resources difficult to locate and waste time trying to find them. We wanted to create a website and/or application that takes all the available resources on campus and quickly provides students with how to access them.

What it does

T-Care provides tips, resources, and access to helplines so that students are given easy access to campus services. By providing your real-world location, T-Care can provide a path from your current location to the campus service. The goal of T-Care is to provide easy access to campus services and to provide important mental health information.

How we built it

We built T-Care with a React and TypeScript frontend, connected to a Node.js and Express backend, and used AWS Bedrock and Google Maps to understand student questions, return the right support resources, and provide directions to the nearest campus services. We then linked that output to map-based navigation so students could immediately see where to go next.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into challenges implementing location services and integrating Amazon Bedrock. We couldn't use Amazon Location Services, thus pivoting us to Google Maps services. Implementing Bedrock was also an issue because it wouldn't produce the correct output. This led us to manually tweak some of its output so that it would show what it was meant to show.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of having a clean, minimalist, and user-friendly GUI. Since first impressions are everything, we made sure to provide users with a clean interface so that our website and resources would be easy to navigate. We are also proud of our integration of Amazon Bedrock, as it can handle many different services and even provide tips to users.

What we learned

We learned that integrating external web services requires a lot of different optimizations and plugins so that the code can function properly. We also learned how difficult making a good graphical interface with HTML could be.

What's next for T-Care

T-Care has a lot of potential for expansion to its audience. By integrating more features, polishing up redirects, and increasing the amount of resources it displays, it can serve as an essential tool to students who seek mental health and accessibility services.

Built With

• bedrock
• google-maps
• html
• node.js
• react
• typescript
• vite