A Calgary high school student is putting his ample extra time to good use, hoping to remind people across the world why it’s important to stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Matthew Toms-Zuberec, a Grade 11 student at Calgary’s Notre Dame High School, said he started to build his website, See the Spread, out of boredom, but he’s hoping it can be embraced as an educational tool as well.
The site took three weeks to build, and features a 3D globe that shows the total number of cases in every country. “It takes the data from the previous day for each country in the world, and then it puts it on my 3D globe,” Toms-Zuberec said. “It’ll change the colour based on how many cases there are per country.” In addition to the global tally,