About ProjectPencilATX

ProjectPencilATX serves grade schools, particularly low income schools, in need of support with acquiring school supplies. It connects prospective donors with classrooms in need, as well as with organizations that can help connect them to these schools.

Our Team

Anya (Andre) Chen

@achen004

Junior in CS. Sky:CotL, drawing, and Golurk enjoyer. Handling variety of front-end line items.

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David Mendieta

@davidmendieta

Junior in UTCS and Mathematics. I love hiking and nature, and grilling steaks with friends! Primarily responsible of handling backend with Flask and manage the Database.

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Francisco Dominguez

@fr75s

Junior in CS at UT Austin. Has worked on a few websites and web apps in the past. Often plays games when not busy. Primarily responsible for creating frontend instance pages.

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Carson Davis

@carson_davis

Junior in CS at UT Austin. I like going to UT sports, watching movies, and playing board games. Primary responsibility of scraping data for our instances.

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Sebastian Tenorio

@sebastenor

Enjoyer of the little things in life; dolce vita fanatic. Primary responsibility of handling the Postman API.

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Links

GitLab Repository
Postman API

Sources

SchoolDiggerGeoapifyDonors ChooseProPublicaOffice Depot

SchoolDigger

SchoolDigger was used to get supplementary data on schools.

Geoapify

Geoapify was used to get supplementary data on locations.

Donors Choose

Donors Choose was used to help us obtain data for connections between schools, supplies they need, and organizations.

ProPublica

ProPublica was used to gather extra information on nonprofit organizations.

Office Depot

Office Depot was used to get pricing and purchasing information for supplies.

Tools Used

Selenium, Postman, Next.js, Bootstrap, Google Maps, BeautifulSoup, Playwright

Integrating Disparate Data

Through our process in finding data to connect schools, organizations, and supplies to each other, we noticed trends that we had not before. The supplies that were being requested by schools are very abundant in quantity and types on store websites. This shows us that our mission of getting schools resources is very achievable with enough engagement. We also noticed that there was a big gap in the amount that involved organizations have given. Some have given a lot, but much more have given some but not nearly as much. This is something not noticed at face value as they are each presented equally, showing the need of looking into organizations before donating directly to them.

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