Digital playground

Inspiration

Inspiration comes from 3 groups, mainly our friends and colleagues:

Parents with little children who don't have time to play with them because they have to work from home.
Small children being lonely without their teachers and friends from kinder gardens and schools.
Teachers who want to continue their regular work with their little students.

What it does

Digital Playground is a fun educational platform for pre-school and primary school children.

Kids will be able to share their regular activities on camera during video conferences with both teachers and friends (drawing, singing, dancing, playing etc.) and have fun! Also they will be able to share streaming services from Netflix, Amazon and partners during video conferences they create.

This allows children to continue education and socialise and teachers do their job without stress. The problems our project solves: the ability for kindergarten to operate remotely; the ability of parents to focus on work in dramatic corona time.

How I built it

There are different approaches to build distributed systems, for fast prototyping Amazon Web Services and "Monolith first" approach are selected.

Our team members are young and dynamic talents working in information technology industry: both start-ups and big enterprises, as well as in health care and digital. Team members that are not added to Devpost: Sasha Matsiavina (our lovely 11 year old teammate who did a video pitch) Alex Anderssen (kinder garden teacher in Oslo)

Challenges I ran into

Shooting video with parents and children who don't feel so happy on quarantine is challenging.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Interactive interface that covers the needs of both children and teachers 2. App architecture and firebase demo. 3. Successful interviews with several families and value proposition validation. 4. Successful collaboration with our team remotely 5. Incredible results on building business model and value proposition quickly.

What we have done during the weekend: Product Business Analysis, A/B Testing, Interviews with interested parties (kindergarten managers, (teachers, children, parents), Product design, Product development (we didn't finish with demo unfortunately), Building an architecture of the app.

What I learned

How important it is to remember simple human needs and the opportunity to talk about it in simple language so that everyone can find a piece of our product for themselves.

What's next for Digital playground

Introduction of a Pilot Version of "Digital Playground" in 10 kinder gardens and schools in Scandinavia, to reach more than a 1000 kids and more than 3000 parents.

The necessities in order to continue the project: Get feedback from jury during this hackathon, continue negotiations with kindergartens and introduce a Pilot Version of "Digital Playground" in 10 kinder gardens/schools in Scandinavia. We need to work on growing our team and bringing in funding. Also we need to collaborate with mentors interested in our project.

The value of your solution(s) after the crisis: According to analysts, companies will return to their former well-being for another two to three years after the crisis. Digital Playground will help companies cut costs (renting premises, purchasing equipment, protecting the territory, and so on) and continue to provide services to consumers now and in the future. The world is also moving towards cosmopolitanism, and those companies that will be able to provide their services to customers both on location and remote (more and more parents are now traveling, go on business trips with their children, and are interested in the fact that the child has received proper education and mental health) will win this race.