EarthKarma

EarthKarma is a crowdsourcing project that aims to clean our environment from pollution.

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Inspiration

Our goal is to clean the planet from pollution, and we believed that the best way to do this is to organize the efforts of passionate volunteers and connect them with good opportunities and information.

What it does

Builds a real-time map of polluted areas, gathers volunteer interest, presents data, and rewards volunteers.

How we built it

We used HTML, CSS, Javascript and Flask as well as MongoDB to construct the program.

Challenges we ran into

There was not much time, and not all of our members were well versed in the programs we used to build it.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The effort we put into the application, as well as the functioning website we created

What we learned

Web development present unique challenges, and delegating responsibility is important.

What's next for EarthKarma

Hopefully, if all goes well, we should be able to get the program fully operational and usable by a large volume of users. Some features we hope to add are before and after images for users who want to clean up litter and AI algorithms to verify that trash was cleaned up in the "After" image.

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