Search and Rescue

Helping find and rescue missing children in America

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Inspiration

Nearly 360,000 children went missing in the United States in 2022 with this number only rising over time. We wanted to bring awareness to this and help locate them while also not making the website overly complex and hard to access.

What it does

Our website helps find missing children by compiling a list of those who have gone missing over several years and allowing users to filter through various attributes such as name, age, hair and eye color, and location last seen while also having a visually appealing model which has been structured to make the missing children a treasure that we need to find. Users can then easily contact national organizations if they have tips or info about the children with a click of a button on the website. It can be accessed through phone or laptop. NGOs can also use our website and connect it to there own by attaching their own CSV files of missing children.

How we built it

We built this website using mostly JavaScript (Node.js) for the backend as well as HTML/CSS for the frontend.

Challenges we ran into

Most of our challenges came from the tight timeline as we had to work quickly and decisively to come up with a product that would be remarkable yet simple to implement.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of our idea to turn a very serious and important topic into one that treats the missing children of the United States as treasures that we must search for (as pirates). Taking a complex and sensitive issue and reworking it to be more lighthearted will allow more people to take interest as they do not need to feel awkward when bringing up these types of topics.

What we learned

We learned that there are a surprising amount of missing children and many of which go unnoticed. We hope that our website is able to help solve this issue.

What's next for Search and Rescue

In the future, we hope that the website can develop to bring more features and become more well known in order to spread awareness about missing children and hopefully allow the general public to be on the lookout for them.

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