Inspiration

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, many schools have been forced to adopt remote or distance learning. Many students simply do not learn as well in remote learning and require additional help for understanding their work. As high school students, our team has also faced this issue in this past semester. We wanted to create a way to make it easier for students to receive help from their peers.

What it does

Our app serves as a safe space for tutors to offer help to students remotely. They can choose subjects or classes of expertise and build a profile. These tutors will then immediately be matched with a student from their school. In this way, we are creating a "virtual" peer tutoring space that could also be used by school to reward students with volunteer hours. The app has an integrated video chat feature that can allow a student and tutor to communicate with each other effectively.

How I built it

This app was built using Android Studio.

Challenges I ran into

We ran into challenges with connecting to the Firebase database.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We are super proud of our progress so far and excited for finishing the development of our app. It will be very practical right now because of remote learning.