Elementee.

Inspiration

As students achieving our tech career goals, we struggle to find internship opportunities through the current UC Davis resources. From our research, we found that other students feel anxious about the career search process due to the lack of individualized help. Handshake is a resource used by many Davis students, but it is an external rather than internal tool that does not tackle students’ experiences with the school community.

What it does

Elementee amplifies specific career needs in tech and gamifies an intimate friendship dynamic within mentor relationships at UC Davis. Due to the short time frame, we focused our solution on the mentee's perspective.

Dashboard: giving a general overview of the student’s profile, their badges/achievements, saved jobs, and progress regarding their exercises. Careers page: a search filter to provide students with the most relevant opportunities and internships Connect page: where students can schedule weekly meetings with their matched UC Davis Alumni mentor of the month and keep track of their attendance (promoting accountability) Matching with mentors & Chat feature: Mentor and mentees fill out a survey to help determine the most compatible match. They enter a chat room where a timer counts down within each reply either party sends that mimics a real-time conversation.

Features we couldn’t implement, but plan to integrate Exercises page: students can have fun with interactive games relevant to their tech interest that helps them improve their hard skills Networking page: Mentors publicly post opportunities to connect mentees for relationships or future referrals for their company

How we built it

We used React.js as our core technology to implement CSS, HTML, and javascript in a cohesive way. We followed an AGILE development format to focus on building the core functionalities of our app.

Challenges we ran into

One challenge we faced was creating a developed wireframe in a timely manner for the developers to understand and code out during the event. Due to these constraints, our website application does not match our designed wireframes or our prototype.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to find a balance between design and development, making sure not to overly emphasize one facet of our app over the other. As a result, we created an app with good design and functionality.

What we learned

Through the User Research phase, we learned plenty about how UC Davis students struggle during the job search process and specific pain points that we worked on tackling in our prototype. We enjoyed hearing about students’ unique experiences and wanted to do our part to address their needs. From the overall experience, we worked on our communication skills to streamline our workflow and get the most work done between the designers and developers.

What's next for Elementee.

We want to prototype our platform further by conducting further research with the UC Davis student body, fleshing out more animations in Figma, and implementing additional pages and features where students can perform educational, engaging exercises,

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