Blackstone Bicycle Works is a community bike shop and youth education program of the Experimental Station. The mission of Blackstone is to provide educational and vocational opportunities to youth from some of Chicago's most underserved neighborhoods. Blackstone is structured as a retail, full-service bike shop that offers an "earn and learn," hands-on bicycle mechanics curriculum to its participants. TechTeam worked to create a web app that would allow students to check-in/check-out when they volunteer their time, an easier hour-tracking method than paper logs. This web app also included the tracking of the youths' skills and achievement levels. Our team designed a new website in Vue.js for the volunteer management with the data stored in Google Firebase.
Project Leaders: Spencer Miner, Yves Shum
Project Members: Adam Rivkin, Ally Nisenoff, Eun Seo Choi (Elly), Gil Rosenthal, Ishan Malhotra, Jeffrey Zhou, Kate Lu, Makenna Meyer, Melissa Tovar, Reo Kimura, Shriya Bansan, Vince LaGrassa, Yuxin Guan
Click through the screenshots below to see some of the features we implemented for youth volunteers and staff managers.
