College Explorer

One-stop destination for high school graduates to access resources related to college and connect with their peers and university students.

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Inspiration

As thousands of students all across Indonesia after graduating from high school stand on a cross-road to decide their future plans of college.To cater this problem,we wanted to create a medium through which we could connect high school graduates with prospective seniors at the colleges they aim to study in. It is always better to interact with students currently studying in these colleges rather than trying to know everything about the college through their websites. College Explorer aims to bridge this gap.

What it does

College Explorer is a portal for high school graduates which aims to cater to all their needs - be it looking for a college, finding productive skills to learn over the break, or speaking to prospective seniors about their dream colleges. We connect these students with campus ambassadors from colleges across Indonesia. These campus ambassadors provide complete information regarding their colleges and clear any doubts students may have.

How we built it

  1. We had a brainstorming sessions where we tried to come up with viable project ideas and finalized this idea.
  2. Then we started thinking about the features in our web application and how we would go about integrating those with our sites.
  3. We decided to add the following features: a. A community for students to interact amongst themselves and with college students. b. Resources including, a list of Indonesian colleges, upcoming workshops, college updates

Challenges we ran into

  1. Getting insights into Indonesian education system in order to work on our project.
  2. Building the community portal using flask extensions.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  1. Created a full stack website that help students to find the correct college and to know about the college from the students of the same college
  2. We communicated and coordinated smoothly with each other in order to successfully create the project.

What we learned

  1. We learnt more about the Indonesian culture and how similar it is to the Indian society as well.
  2. Using Flask extensions to create a blog page to connect high school graduates and campus ambassadors.

What's next for College Explorer

College Explorer can be expanded to include colleges not just in Indonesia, but globally. This would create a worldwide community of college students and high school undergraduates looking to learn more about their dream colleges.

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