When COVID-19 hit, we began to realize the impacts it was having on our community. Small businesses were finding it hard to continue operating as usual due to the public wanting safer options like curbside pickup for shopping due to rising safety concerns. However, small businesses lacked the funds to create such expensive websites with online ordering since it can cost thousands. Businesses were left to choose whether to close down their businesses temporarily, continue operating with the risk of possible contracting and spreading COVID, or having to conduct business through the cumbersome process of placing orders through phone calls.
Hence, we sought out to solve this problem. We are an organization of 33+ high schoolers and middle schoolers from all around the globe who utilize our coding skills to code websites with online ordering for businesses and even non-profits who have now started reaching out to us. To further aid the businesses as well as the rest of our community, we do not have a set charging price. Instead, in return for the websites, we ask for donations to non-profits like CRY (Child Rights and You), an organization bent on ensuring the basic rights of healthcare, education, food, and shelter is provided to unprivileged children in India. And in the current situation with COVID-19, fundraising is more critical then ever. Already unprivileged children are finding themselves in continuously worsening conditions and non-profits like CRY are having to take extra steps to ensure they can reach as many children as safely as possible.
Our mission is to provide local businesses with a technological platform to safely interact with customers during the current COVID-19 outbreak as well as fundraising money for COVID-19 aid.
Raising money to aid children during this crisis
Using our coding experience to help small businesses
Donating to charitable causes
Akshat Rastogi is a senior at Seminole High School with a bubbling curiosity and dedication to social service. He has taken multiple online courses and taught himself coding in 7 languages. Using these skills, he coded this very website, coded the entire web-application as an intern at MarketAtomy LLC, and is currently exploring iOS app development. In high school, Akshat is a member of the debate team and academic team, has competed and won awards in various science-competitions at states, was chairman for numerous SNHS committees, and competed at districts for the Varsity tennis team. Outside of school, Akshat enjoys playing the flute, volunteering as an assistant tennis coach, and competing in cricket.
Naga Vangara is a hardworking student. He has a myriad of skills that set him apart from others, ranging from javascript and python coding, competitive mathematics, digital editing, social media managing, and much more. Currently, Naga works as a math tutor, teaching students of all ages. Naga’s favorite subjects at school are calculus and chemistry. His favorite pastimes and activities include swimming, reading books, volunteering at various places, digital editing, Taekwondo, and having a good time.
Dhruv Dubey is a vibrant member of his highschool community. He has been coding since he was in 7th grade. He has competed in numerous competitive programming tournaments with moderate success. Dhruv’s favorite subjects in school are physics and calculus. Additionally, he has worked as an engineering intern in the U.S. Army, and he currently works as a website developer at a local company. Outside of school, his hobbies are playing tennis, learning piano, and practicing martial arts.
