Aced It!

We are a group of rising ninth graders whose goal was to create a project that brings accessible education to students. We wanted to create a resource that keeps kids learning even during COVID-19!

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Inspiration

This pandemic ultimately inspired us as learning came to an abrupt stop when COVID-19 hit. Schools and other learning programs just stopped working when COVID-19 invaded. While schools and learning centers tried to adapt to keep on going it just wasn’t as effective. Not to mention, us and other students couldn’t go volunteer to get service hours, because of the lack of online volunteer activities.

What it does

Aced It! is an online tutoring program which allows for students and kids to sign up for tutoring lessons as well as have their queries answered by tutors and peers on a discord forum.

How we built it

We built Aced It! using Coffee Cup Site Editor for a base template and a few changes to the site. Then, we edited the site in Notepad to make a lot of improvements. Then we created the Discord and Questionnaire to link to the site. After that, we created a spreadsheet with the Responses to put into the site and Viola! Our website was created!

Challenges we ran into

Until Saturday, we didn’t know whether we’d be building a website or an app, and we didn’t even know where to start. We also started using Thunkable, but it didn’t have the features we needed so we had to start from scratch. It was also a challenge learning to work together over something like zoom instead of being in person.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that we have developed a successful website that is functional. We are also extremely proud of actually getting the project done because at one point it seemed like that wasn’t possible.

What we learned

We learned about Google Sheets and how to use it, the basics of HTML, and about how stressful a Hackathon can be! We also learned quite a bit about time management ;D !

What's next for Aced It!

We are looking to turn Aced It! Into a non-profit tutoring and volunteer organization. This is because we believe many people will participate in this organization and it will benefit a variety of people. In addition, we are looking to add both spontaneous tutors and a chat service directly on the site.

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