Efishant Tasking

Fish

Inspiration

We were inspired by our observation of the lack of support that exists within Canadian education concerning students with learning disabilities. We decided to expand upon that idea by making an all-purpose program that students can use both inside and outside of the classroom.

What it does

This program allows Kids to create a list of tasks that they need to complete ad to remove them from the list. It then rewards the child with a fun fish friend to encourage them to keep going!

How we built it

The program was built using tkinter to provide an interfacing method. The task list is handled by a separate file which users can add or delete from. The art for the application was designed by a member of our team. The formatting of the project along with the devlopment of the code was desigend in a team effort by all the team members.

Challenges we ran into

During this competition we went through many challenges. Our initial challenge was attempting to learn Kivy, a module non of the team members were familiar with. We wanted to use Kivy because we knew it would support all major operating systems to maximize accessibility. However, after hours of watching endless tutorials, we finally came to a consensus that we had to pivot our project if we wanted a chance at succeeding in this hackathon. We switched our project and started from scratch half way through the competition.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were all proud to have learnt a brand new python module, Tkinter, within the span of 24 hours. We were also very proud of our speech-to-text as well as text-to-speech functions as that is one of the key features of our to-do-list application that makes it uniquely inclusive. We are also proud to have hit all 3 topics of the hackathon in our application. We hit topics 1 and 2 by creating a quality educational app that allows people who struggle with reading, speaking, and focus, (population in need) which ultimately can help reduce the learning inequality between children. We also hit topic 3 because we encouraged the children to drink water and take a break for healthy and sustainable living. For example, people with ADHD are shown to have a hard time keeping track of time. The reminders would help those who lose track of time easily, remember to take care of their mental and physical being while studying.

What we learned

The Python interface Tkinter was used, which was something the team had to learn to make this program. We also learned how to create code for speech-to-text/text-to-speech features, as well as several other interactive components. Finally, since the target audience for this program is those with ADHD, the needs of individuals with ADHD were reasearched and applied to the design of the program.

What's next for Efishant Tasking

This project had features planned that could not be fully implemented due to the time frame, which included a light that lit up for when the speech-to-text was on and sound effects throughout the program. The project could also be expanded on to include similar interactive components like those already in the program.