EduRaise

Home Page
User input page
Project listing in Home Page
Dynamic page for individual project
Donate section of individual project page

Inspiration:

Today, teachers spend an average of $500 out of pocket on their classrooms each year. For teacher whose school resides in low-income communities, that figure got even more worse. Eager to combat to combat the racial and socioeconomic inequity in school funding, our group decided to tackle this recurring problem with a modern solution.

What it does:

EduRaise make it easy for everyone to support a teacher in need. The site allows teacher to generate a web page for their specific need just by filling out a simple form. Using web-scraping algorithm, our site also helps find the online supplies that fit their request and show them along with the teacher's story to the worldwide donors. Hundreds of teacher's projects are presented on our front page awaiting donors' support.

How we built it:

We used wix template for front-end, javascript and velo API for the web-scraping tool in back-end and the built-in database to store user-input and returned products from the scraping tool.

Challenges we ran into:

We're mostly first-timers so we all struggle with building web app as well as developing the scraping bot. Because of our skill limit, it's also difficult to delegate tasks so we tend to work on one thing all at the same time.

Accomplishments that we're proud of:

Building a web-scraping bot in JavaScript in only 8 hours that can sort product through prices and ratings.

What we learned:

Building a functional web app is a demanding and time-consuming process even with the use of pre-built template. But, it's always worth it at the end!

What's next for EduRaise:

We plan to design a map feature that help donors connect and support more local teachers in their area. We also want to improve the scraping tool to scrape data from different websites(right now we only search through Amazon).