Inspiration
According to UNICEF We are facing an education crisis. For nearly 77 million children, the pandemic has taken away their classrooms for the past 18 months. Schoolchildren worldwide have lost 1.8 trillion hours and counting of in-person learning due to COVID-19 lockdowns.
*There’s no time to lose. *
According to a survey, most of the students become more aggressive and misbehave more when they come back to schools after lockdown. This happens because they use their mobile to watch videos and play games. So we need something in mobile which divert children interest from games and videos to something else. Moreover, still, we don't have any digital platform which fulfills primary school's needs.
What it does
After speculating on all these reasons we develop an app called Parwaz and introduce the concept of Digital Copy. A project aims to facilitate: • Digital Copy for Primary Student • Complete worksheets using the application • Teachers can check copies and worksheets • Teacher can assign marks and students can view them • Uploading and downloading of assignments • Provide Employment to Teachers
How we built it
On the initial level, allow checking some primary student copies and their structure like Urdu and English using three-line copy but for the mathematics, we need to create a single line copy design. Now, we need to create a simplistic and essay prototype as per UI/UX standard which primary students can easily understand. Then after having a long discussion with a psychologist, we change our UI/UX and use a brighter theme with primary colors and GIFs. Because she told us to be storytelling and don't use aggressive and violent things. For application development, we used Flutter and for authentication opt firebase. Most backend design is on firebase Real-time Database and firebase cloud storage.
Challenges we ran into
Actually, the challenge is that getting the drawing x, y coordinates with their using point class and storing them in the database. After that retrieve the same coordinate point in order to plot the original drawing on a copy. Further, minimize the number before sending to storage because a single dot generates a cluster of coordinates. Apparently, the sizing of the letter needs to same as the size canvas.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
As a hackathon participator, thinking about new ideas and their solutions that help out society through development. The skillset is improved regarding not only flutter as well as data structure, algorithms, data handling, firebase no SQL database.
What we learned
The prime thing we learned is to think, believe, and put your best to achieve it. We learned not only about technology but also problem-solving techniques.
What's next for E-School
For the upcoming phase Parwaz we are willing to introduce the concept of “Books Re-Allocating”. Basically, the idea is that every year parents need to purchase the course for their children but what if we’ll scan these books and create their PDFs. Further, adding it to our app’s teacher module and assign this pdf book to the subject teacher. So, whenever, the academic year starts, teachers can make the subject book downloadable in pdf. On the other hand, students can easily get their desired subject in which they register. Somehow this will increase education resources in our country.
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