Altotus

Altotus: Your Guide through the Medicinal Field

Inspiration

Our inspiration for building this website is to aid and assist first responders in staying up-to-date with the latest techniques and medical education, ensuring they remain well-versed in the ever-advancing medical field. We also wanted to help students who aspire to enter the medical field in a timely manner. Additionally, we were inspired to develop this platform to teach students biology, pharmacology, and medical techniques, enabling them to attain micro-credentials and work in the medical field.

What it does

Our website is an online learning platform designed to help students attain current and up-to-date knowledge on medical industry subjects in an easy and fun way. By providing these learning opportunities, our students can quickly earn credentials to help them enter the industry faster. For front-line professionals, we offer a platform to keep them practicing proper and current techniques, helping to minimize medical errors in the field. To make learning as engaging and fun as possible, we have included incentives to demonstrate just how enjoyable learning can be.

How we built it

Our website was built using VS Code with Node.js to make writing code in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as user-friendly and accessible as possible.

Challenges we ran into

Our team, consisting of chemistry and biochemistry majors, faced the challenge of being relatively new to the field of computer science. With little to no prior experience in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, learning to build a website from scratch within a week was a significant hurdle for us.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

One of our greatest accomplishments, given that our team consists of chemistry and biochemistry majors, is learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript within a week. With these skills, we built a user-friendly educational website to help others enhance their knowledge.

What we learned

Building this website and competing in the hackathon has taught us a multitude of new skills that we are proud to now further strengthen and utilize. Through web development, we learned to structure content with HTML, style it with CSS, and add interactivity with JavaScript. In coding, we honed our ability to identify and troubleshoot errors. Additionally, working as a team has improved our communication, ability to compromise, time management, and openness to others' ideas and constructive feedback.

What's next for Altotus

We aim to enhance our users' experience by adding progression elements, where new topics and quizzes become accessible only after the user completes the prerequisite quiz.