HyperText

Back in 2020 when COVID-19 just hit, my computer science class for high school had to participate in the Hawaii Annual Code Challenge. We made a group of four at random and were tasked to think of an idea, pitch said idea, and then create the idea. Afterwards, we would have to present to a selection of judges for the challenge. From the beginning all the way to the end, the process took over a month or so. It was definitely an experience as a sophomore in high school. It was both exciting and stressful although it was a major learning experience for almost everyone in my class.

The Project

The idea my group and I pitched in for the HACC was to create a type of app that could aid the user in need of elderly/children assistance/care. My group and I had a team name which was called HyperText and we unfortunately didn’t create a name for the app or rather a clever one. The website upon using it reads, “Family Resource Directory”, and that would be the most befitting name for the app/website. The app itself is a questionaire that gathers the user’s input through a series of questions and based off the questions, we refer to the users to departments located in Hawaii and provide their information.

Reflection

The entire hackathon was definitely fun. From start to finish, the race was amazing, fun, but extremely streesful given the cirumstances a sophomore had. The many things I have learned from just this experience alone is what makes me want to come back every year, but unfortunately as time permits, I couldn’t really participate as much as I wanted to. There are plenty more years to come and as such plenty more HACCs to come along with, though I am sure I can only do so much. One of the things I really did enjoy was pitching the idea and the matter of how you present yourself and the idea. It felt like I was at some job, pitching this cool idea my team and I came up with to our boss. It was super cool, yet very nerve-racking. Regardless, it did help me understand the importance of confidence and knowing what you have researched, and having prepared for expected questions. I look forward to future HACCs and seeing how far I can place among the other amazing talents we have here on island!

Coding Languages

The languages we used were HTML, CSS, and used some JavaScript. JavaScript wasn’t used as much compared to our HTML and CSS as on the github, it roughly says about 0.7% was used (lol).

Here is the link to our GitHub.

Here is the link to the actual app.

Please don’t judge too harshly (it was a lot of work for a group of 3 sophomores and a junior)!