Curious Critters

This is our first Hackathon!

Inspiration

Our team wanted to address the challenge language barriers pose in many places around the world, especially in a diverse country like America, by creating an app that can help people learn different languages.

What it does

Our project addresses this challenge by acting as a learning tool for young kids to learn words from different languages.

How we built it

We used HTML, Javascript, and CSS to develop the website. We also used other programs such as GitHub, Notepad, Flat, Kleki, and pixlr. We also registered for a domain called, "curiouscritters.tech".

Challenges we ran into

We had difficulties finding free animation software for our project that our group member’s device could run.
Often, our code was being difficult, and it took a lot of time to get it to work.
Two of our teammates were gone for most of the time period due to things that were happening at the same time as the event. We tried to negate the negative effects by planning ahead for this.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of including background music for the project since it’s something we’ve never done before. Our graphics also took a lot of time to make, but we’re proud we managed to include them.

What we learned

We learned how to code, animate, and compose music for this project.

What's next for Curious Critters

We're going to be working on more hackathon projects in the future as a group to try and develop our skills and learn new things.

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VTHacks IX

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I worked on coding the front-end with Angela, and included Spanish in our project. I had hoped to accomplish a little more than what we have now, but this experience has helped me learned a lot more about how the front-end works, considering how I've always worked on the back-end.

Sukruthi Marmamula
I worked on the music composition, the language of Telugu in our app, and the description of our app. I'm glad I was able to use my knowledge of music to compose the background music, and my knowledge of my second language to translate the words we used.

Aksheta M
I worked on the front-end of the website with Sukruthi, and helped organized the parts together. Although it was a little intimidating to do this as it was my first time creating a website using HTML and CSS, it was a fun learning experience.

Angela Nguyen
I was in charge of creating the graphics, directing the design, and including Latin in our project. I also drew and animated our dog and cat mascots, Clyde and Tiramisu. Under a time constraint, I wasn’t able to animate them as much as I had hoped, but I was able to gain more animating experience. As a current Latin student, I’m glad I was able to share what I’ve learned and learn about other languages in the process.

Charlotte C

Updates

Angela Nguyen started this project — Feb 26, 2022 08:38 PM EST

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