4empowerment developed a comprehensive curriculum through which students could measure the quality of the waterways in their community. A personal notebook Collaborative project application Creating such an ambitious site required the integration of several third-party tools and work with another team of web designers. Because minor children were involved, site security was an important issue. The Site has a variety of visualization tools including graphs and maps. At the heart of the site was a visualization engine that would allow students, teachers, and parents to see the results of water quality tests for the entire state of Texas.
Students are able to compare their results with sites nearby or across the state.
These components were developed using the C programming language to offer peak performance and scalability. A large part of the site deals with images. These including student pictures, field photos, maps, and graphs. Soft Reality's expertise in Internet imaging and maps provides an automated site that students and teachers visually explore and add to. The Site Homepage shows images, news, polls, surveys, and mulit-language support.