CST462: Race Gender & Class in the Digital World, Week 8
For my service learning project, our team worked on PawPal, a lost and found pet app that is meant to help people report lost pets, submit sightings, and hopefully reunite pets with their families. As part of the course, we were required to complete 25 service hours during the term. The project gave us the opportunity to contribute to an app with a real community purpose, rather than only working on a traditional class assignment. Overall, I enjoyed that the project connected technology with animal welfare. The most meaningful part for me was knowing that the features we worked on could eventually help lost animals get back home. I worked on updates related to lost pet reports, editing pet details, improving trait fields, and linking sightings to specific lost pet profiles. Even though some of these features may seem small on their own, they all support the larger goal of making the app more useful for pet owners and the community. One thing that went well was that I was able to c...
