We are a group of motivated, creative, and talented
high-schoolers learning to code to make our world a better place!:)
Welcome to our 2018 Girls Who Code Impact Project!
Breathing Buddies is a website that allows kids to choose their favorite animated
animal to practice breathing techniques with! As the tummy of the animal expands,
your tummy should expand as you breathe in, and as the tummy of the animal contracts,
you contract and breathe out!
When our breathing slows down, it sends messages to our brain to keep our brain on an
even keel, maintaining a sense of calm, rather than when we breathe too quickly and send
messages to the brain to tell it there’s an emergency and set off the body’s alarms.
Breathing is part of the automatic system of our body, but we can still control it if we make
a conscious decision to, and because our automatic systems are so closely linked, slowing
down your breathing to a state associated with being rested and relaxed is likely to cause
a cascade effect in which the rest of your autonomic nervous system responds in kind.
This will put you in a much calmer state overall.
Our club administrator, Mrs. Lenox, a fantastic AP Computer Science teacher,
gave us the idea!
