Animal Watch

Many animals on our planet are experiencing an extinction crisis at alarming rates for reasons such as climate change and over-exploitation. Our team’s mission is to make information accessible and collaborative in order to help people understand and intervene for the plights of threatened species.

Ally Goins, Ray Lauffer, Jakob Speert, Elise Tran, and I built a user-friendly application that lets users contribute by monitoring and posting about species that they see in the wild, as well as adding endangered animals to the registry if they are not yet included. Our application uses Flask, Jinja2, PostgreSQL, Auth0, Google Maps API, and Bootstrap 5.0. Everyone on the team has different roles and tasks for what they bring to the project: user authentication, database schema, getting the animal information online and adding them to the database, etc. My main roles for this project were to make major decisions for the full-stack designs; implement the application by integrating with the Google Maps API and Bootstrap; and manage & encourage the team to work creatively on tasks to meet deadlines.


Since I love to dive into deeper concepts and understanding of full-stack development, I was taking the lead in helping my teammates to support and understand the new frameworks’ concepts and work on as many front-end as well as back-end tasks as possible. My work involves designing and implementing the following pages:

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Overall, our application relies on and follows most of the database design here:

As a way to organize and track our progress, we use the Trello board to assign certain tasks to fit each person’s goals that they wish to accomplish after the project finishes.

Lessons Learned

Animal Watch Links