ELM: Educate, Learn, Motivate

Inspiration

We realized many students lack access to quality education, and the situation with Covid-19 compounds that even further by cutting off access to in-person classrooms and help. We then decided that we wanted to provide free tutoring services to help students learn. We also realized during Covid-19 that it is sometimes incredibly difficult to stay motivated and to keep learning, so we've added a motivational page where students can share their journey, their thoughts, and their advice to encourage others to keep going and learning no matter how they feel.

What it does

In our platform, you can create learn requests in which you can request specific tutors (or make a request to the public) for a certain topic and provide details about what you need help with. Another user can then go to educate and tutor that user for that subject, which will redirect users to a video call. Of course, users can feel free to reject a request at any given time! In our motivate page, users can create posts with advice or encouraging thoughts and share them, and users like other posts as well.

How we built it

We built our website with JavaScript using NodeJs and the Express framework, as well as HTML and CSS. We also have an app counterpart which was built with Android Studio and Java.

Challenges we ran into

Since we had little to no experience with app development and web development, we had to learn on the go and familiarize ourselves with the technologies associated with this.

Accomplishments that we are proud of and what we've learned

We are incredibly proud that we've learned so much about the different technologies needed for web and app development and create our website and mobile app! We've learned JavaScript, how to navigate Android Studio, and how to design a SQL database.

What's next for ELM: Educate, Learn, Motivate

We intend to rebuild the website with frameworks such as React or Angular as well as redesign the UI/UX experience, which currently, is not the most friendly thing. We intend to reinvent the database as well and provide more features for the motivational page such as comments.