ShellTer

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  ShellTer

What inspired us

Situations in which students were near areas where an incident occurred but they were not notified until hours later. The official police report being sent hours later than the incident doesn't secure the immediate safety of people in the area. People need to know as soon as possible when there is something dangerous going on near them so that they can avoid that path.

What ShellTer does

ShellTer is both an app and a website that allows a student or staff on campus to view reports of incidents in the area, report their own incident, or validate an incident that they witnessed. It serves as a platform for communicating and navigating to safety quickly and effectively.

How we built our project

Our project was built using html, css, javascript on repl.it for the website, as well as thunkable for the app.

Challenges we faced

We ran into issues when the map wasn't working on the website, trying to figure out how to use an API, writing code in newly learned languages, as well as trying to make the code match our idea and do exactly what we want.

What we learned

We learned how to effectively navigate repl.it, gained experience writing in html, css, and javascript, and figured out how to use an API.

What's next for ShellTer

In the future we plan to implement other features such as showing a brief description of the report if you hover over the marker. Also when someone reports, we will have an option for them to pick the level of emergency: low risk, medium, risk or high risk. Based on the risk level, their report will show up as a marker on the map for a respective amount of time. Low risk: 6 hours. Medium risk: 12 hours: High risk: 24 hours. We would want to develop a system to keep track of the data of the users reports so that they can be accessed by us and others. We also want to make it more user friendly and design the app and website better according to the theme. Additionally, we're thinking that it should be adaptable to other universities/colleges/schools/offices/etc.

Built With

• api
• css
• html
• javascript
• thunkable