Inspiration
Teachers don't have enough time. Any tools to make their administrative duties less of a burden means more time for their students. Organizing, printing, and distributing back-to-school materials lists is a burden on teacher time and often results in sub-par allocation of resources. Additionally, there may be several students in a class who will need financial support to afford the class materials.
What it does
The shop4school app is designed to interface with Target.com to make it easy to create a back-to-school shopping list and then distribute the link to parents.
How I built it
We used html/css for the front-end. We used AJAX and javascript to make API requests to Target.
Challenges I ran into
Neither of us have worked in javascript before or done anything with APIs. The entire exercise was a challenge because we had to learn everything on the fly.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We are proud that we were able to pull data from the API and display it in a page that looks nice and has important functionality.
What I learned
We learned we have a lot more to learn, but also that with focus you can make significant strides in a short amount of time.
What's next for shop4school
It depends on whether the Target team likes the idea.
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