Last night, one of our teammates asked why it was so cold in LA. The other exclaimed "it's climate change! it's real!" That got us thinking about the earth. It's our home, yet why do we hurt it and how can we be a better friend for it?
We developed and built a website that guides its user to be better friends for the earth. It has 4 features: a recycling center that educates its users on how to recycle certain materials properly by showing the steps and a Google Maps API in Irvine; a shop that promotes eco-friendly business; a donation opportunities page that allows you to do good and spread kindness for other people in need and our earth simultaneously, and a blog post that educates people to be more sustainable in their daily lives.
Using technologies of front-end development, we majorly use HTML to build the structure, CSS for the styling, Bootstrap framework, JavaScript for behavior, and finally Google Maps API to help the user navigate to recycling centers.
Learning the Google API was the hardest obstacle we ran into. Our programmers had difficulties finding resources, then applying them to our website. We also ran into a lot of Bootstrap bugs when styling, but managed to figure it out with time & help from the mentors!
We finished it! We learned new technologies and teamwork skills.
How to use Google Maps API, code HTML, and efficiently use GitHub and Bootstrap framework.
We hope it reaches a lot more audience by expanding its scope to other regions (not just Irvine) and actually educates the world to be better friends and earth.
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