Together We Can

A social media app that allows users to spread/gain information about nearby protests that allow them to actively support their beliefs and contribute to relevant petitions.

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Inspiration

We were inspired by the George Floyd protests when the whole country stood up against racial discrimination. Protests bring people together to support their beliefs and get justice for those who deserve it. We developed this app to spread information as well as organize protests. You can even make a difference sitting in your home by signing a petition through the app. No matter how small the issue, if it is important to you, the app gives you the resources to fight for it.


What it does

'Together We Can' acts as a social media advocacy platform to get people engaged via protests and petitions. The app allows users to organize events for causes that they are passionate about and gather support for it. For those who might not be able to make it to some protests, we also have petitions that people can sign, since change is made through action and policy. For the protection of our protestors, we also include links to the protestor rights for each state so that people know what to carry with them and what they can do and be protected under the law.

Challenges we ran into

We tried pulling directly from change.org for the petitions page, but they discontinued their API in 2017 so we could not do that. We also tried integrating our maps with the Google Maps API but had to go with MapBox instead.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The UI for the app looks really good and we learned how to link the profiles with a one to many relationship with the posts and petitions.

What's next for Together We Can

If we can manage to integrate the app with a Facebook events API, we can make invite links for protests and reminders for when the protest is upcoming. Hopefully this will allow people who want to get active and engaged but lacked the information to do so.

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