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Inspiration

GameTrees is a click-to-donate site inspired by popular UNWFP operated FreeRice.org and social media philanthropic movements TeamTrees.org and TeamSeas.org. We bring the concept of click-to-donate to help fight climate-change fueling deforestation.

What it does

GameTrees offers users the ability to play web games in order to donate to international tree-planting efforts. While users play we donate 100% of generated ad-revenue to the Arbor Day Foundation and indicate to users how many trees their efforts have helped plant. Users can also compete against their peers to plant more trees with our online leaderboard!

How we built it

Built in React-based Next.js GameTrees make use of TailwindCSS for front-end styling and Auth0 and Firebase for backend data storage and user authentication.

Challenges we ran into

Making use of both Auth0 and Firebase to authenticate users and store user data.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of completing 5 custom-built web games to support the project and building a fully functional web app that has the potential to make an effect on the global climate crisis.

What we learned

Large-scale ecological advancements begin with small efforts and communities can come together to make change.

What's next for GameTrees

We plan to continue to leverage the power of the internet community to solve real-world problems. Fighting deforestation and climate change is just the beginning and there are a myriad of features to implement to help users better join forces to raise funds. We at GameTrees plan to expand to different causes and allow users to "game-to-fund" a collection of different charities of their choice.