Aloha Dash

Imagine a community data driven App on the marketing that allows you to monitor the sustainability of your community and allow you to participate in community based forums to help the environment.

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Inspiration

Hawaii as we all know it is a paradise escape, a beauty in which many want to experience. This is something that makes Hawaii unique and distinct compared to any other state across the nation. Every year we have thousands if not hundreds of thousands of tourists across the globe looking to indulge their time in our beloved Aina to embrace and enjoy the Hawaiian experience. This is what we want to persevere and keep alive for others to experience. Every day we face sustainable issues that harm not only our environment but our image, our native animals and ourselves. In all honesty we are to blame for our own actions and now we believe it is time to step up and take initiative and show what aloha really means. Goodbye to sustainable problems and hello to a new bright clean future.

What it does

Our project utilizes community based data and environmental statistics to help inform others of sustainable issues in Hawaii through the use of a dashboard. Each individual will have their own dashboard to monitor their contributions to the community. Incentives in the form of cryptocurrency will be established to help motivate individuals to take action and actively participate. We were thinking that these cryptocurrencies can be used for discounts in various stores. Since this is a community driven, people can post any sustibale or environmental issues in our forum page. People can then discuss about those topics and even host events to help resolve those issues. In addition, to each individual’s dashboard, the government and nonprofit organizations can host event in which people can participate to develop more of our cryptocurrency.

How we built it

We built the project with the framework Vue. Vue is fast and modern website framework that allows faster development, more responsive components and a more interactive interface. In addition, we utilized Google Firebase which is a database/cloud like platform in which we used to store any accounts, discussions etc.

Challenges we ran into

Some challenges we faced where brainstorming ways of collecting crowdsourced data and how to effectively implement it. We solved this by having a government dashboard that can monitor these data and use it for statistical analysis.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

One thing we are proud of is effectively using vue and firebase together. Prior to this hackathon we primarily used the standard web development tools (HTML, CSS and JS). But we wanted to challenge ourselves by using something that we aren’t 100% expert in.

What we learned

We deepened our Vue and backend knowledge. In addition, we learned the importance and benefits of crowdsourcing and cryptocurrency incentives. People want to be heard and others want to be rewarded. These concepts can be appropriately used to help effectively benefit our community and the island of Hawaii.

What's next for Team S

Even if we are not selected to showcase our application to the judges we plan on continuing this project in hopes that we make a difference in Hawaii. In the end it is not about the competition, the awards or recognition, but it is instead about the change we can make to help make Hawaii a beauty and enjoyable place.

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