Coffee With Veterans is a free online resource for veterans, active military, and civilians to meet, socialize, and build relationships.

1. Coffee With Veterans
a free online resource for veterans, active
military, and civilians to meet, socialize,
and build relationships

2. Our Team
Husband-Wife duo Austin and Emily Lyons
Austin
Electrical Engineering
grad student at the
University of Illinois.
Emily
Communications
professional working
at the University of
Illinois.

3. Our Project
Coffee With Veterans is a free online resource for veterans, active military, and
civilians to meet, socialize, and build relationships.

4. How It Works
The following slides describe our website.
Feel free to try it out in your web browser at www.coffeewithveterans.org!
* Note: Due to the nature of the hackathon and the nightmare known as IE, this
website was developed for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

5. Welcome to
www.coffeewithveterans.org
To begin, users
must select the
“Sign Up” button
to register.

6. Register

7. Register
After the user clicks
submit, they receive a
thank you and a
confirmation email is
sent.
The user clicks the link
and is taken to a
confirmation page with a
link to the Login page.

8. Login Page
After the user has registered,
they Login to begin searching for
others in their area.

9. “Meet For Coffee” search
After you Login, the default
page is the “Meet For Coffee”
search.
Before you search, we
recommend completing your
information by selecting “My
Profile”.

10. My Profile
Enter your information so
others may request coffee
with you!
When a search is performed
on the site, a user’s email
address and “about” info is
posted in the results.
After you click submit, you
will get this message.

11. “Meet For Coffee” search
After the user completes
their profile, it’s search time.
Select the “Meet for Coffee”
page.
Enter your address or zip
code to do a search and
select how large of a
geographical radius you
would like to search within.
Until you submit your
search, the results area and
map will be blank.

12. “Meet For Coffee” search
When you complete your
search, markers will appear
on the map and a listing of
active service/veterans,
civilians, and coffee shops will
appear.
Read a little bit about the
people through their self-
listed “About” info.
Contact people for coffee
through their email address
listed!

13. “Meet For Coffee” search
If you enter an address or zip
code where there are no
registered users, you will
receive a “No results found”
message.

14. Share with Friends
Navigate back to the
home page to share
the site with a friend
on LinkedIn or Twitter!

15. Events
In the future, people
will be able to post
and search for events
related to veterans.
This will also be a
great resource for
coffee shops and
partners to post
social events for
“Coffee With
Veterans” members!

16. About Coffee With Veterans
Visit the about page
to learn the purpose
behind Coffee With
Veterans.
On this page, users
can read personal
testimonies from
others who have
found value in this
online resource.
(The stories provided
are examples.)

17. Thank you
Thank you for taking the time to check out our
hack. We really enjoyed using our skills to develop
a resource that will help veterans.
Coffee With Veterans