Inspiration
Two of the developers are first-generation Americans and understand the struggles of connecting in an unfamiliar community. So they wanted to create a system for which immigrants could better and easily find a footing in America
What it does
Connects immigrants with common factors through online communities. Provides them with events, updates of immigrants lives, and the ability to interact with one another
How we built it
Django + React.js
Challenges we ran into
Getting Django and React to work together
Accomplishments that we're proud of
The overall design of the application. Works on both Mobile and Desktop
What we learned
- Bootstrap 4
- React.Js
- Django
What's next for Immigrant Connect
- Adding user-curated immigrant resources.
- Multi-Media posting with Videos, Links, etc
- Adding auditory and visual elements to enhance the community experience
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