Where To Find It All: The 1001

Where To Find It All: The 1001

When looking for events here at Redwood, clicking through several Instagram profiles to find what you are looking for is such a drag! But the solution is here for all your Redwood information needs.

By: Ella Chan

The 1001, named after Redwood’s address, is a website where students can upload or discover events happening here at Redwood. By looking up the1001.org, you can sign up or purchase tickets for events, add Redwood events to your own calendar, or upload things going on with your clubs. The simple design makes it easy to navigate, even adding it to your phone as an app is a simple click (featured at the button of the site)!

The minimal design offers easy use, you get to skip the doom scrolling! It allows the user to find out what’s happening on campus in under 30 seconds.

The site was created by Nick Miller, Redwood’s journalism advisor, photography advisor, and AP Literature teacher. The app was something Miller had been considering for a while, as the journalism advisor, he struggled to discover what was happening on campus. 

“The band kids know what the band kids are doing, the CSF kids know what the CSF kids are doing, and the art kids know what the art kids are doing.”

Miller says, “Right now, we’re disaggregated, we’re kind of spread out in all these little tribes and there’s no unifying place to find out exactly what’s happening at any moment on campus… everything in one place.”

He goes on to share that when the t-shirt incident happened back in February, he was re-inspired to bring the app to life. 

Miller previously had his daily bulletin podcasts as a means of sharing information, but it proved ineffective as only a few teachers would play it for their students. “I could skip the teacher and skip the algorithm, and stop relying on third parties to put kids in connection to information.”

He adds, “We are asking 14 year old children to go to Instagram and that algorithm to find out what’s happening on campus. And that space is bad for our bodies, it’s bad for our mental health, it’s bad for our image.”

He describes the app as an aggregator. 

“It’s a place where you can go, and you can find out, and you can go anywhere from there, where you can find out about what’s going on. It’s a real problem that doesn’t have a lot of financial incentive to solve. There’s no product to sell, but it’s a crisis, everybody’s on their phone, and nobody knows what’s going on.”

To create the app, Miller had the assistance of AI to work on the coding and databases for the sights. “It’s sort of a combination of 3 things, there’s a super base, which is a database for websites, there’s a card, the front end of it. And then it gets pushed out into the world through something called ‘Netlify’ which is essentially a place that sort of holds the code in a safe place.”

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