GlobeGreet

Duolingo for cultural norms: one-minute daily micro-puzzles teach local etiquette. Greetings, tipping, gestures, taboos all so you arrive confident, respectful, and connection-ready anywhere.

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🌍✨ Inspiration

✈️ Recent International Travel:

  • 🦉 Duolingo: a game changing language learning app, with creative and effective strategies for language learning that we were inspired by.
  • 🗺️ Recent international travel: Our team is fully international, with cultures different from the US.
  • 🤝 Meeting people from different cultures & recent cultural exchange programs

🤖📚 What It Does

🧩 Interactive, bite-sized lessons powered by AI to help you master cultural norms before you travel.

🛠️💻 How We Built It

🚀 Built with Flutter.

🧩⚡ Challenges We Ran Into

🔍 These were technologies we were new to, leading us to adapt and course-correct our strategy. 👶 Half of our team were first-time hackathon participants.

🏅🎉 Accomplishments That We're Proud Of

🎨 Artistic design: We went with a cozy and welcoming hand drawn art style in our app design, creating a comfortable and inviting environment for users to learn. 🐶 Interactive mascots: We used interactive mascots to bring our AI to life, providing our audience with a fun and personalized experience when learning.

📖🧠 What We Learned

🧑‍💻 Hard skills:

  • 🌐 Picked up new languages and frameworks from scratch
  • 🤖 Explored how AI can unlocked personalized learning

🤝 Soft skills:

  • 👥 Teamwork under pressure
  • 🤝 Smooth, clear collaboration
  • 🗣️ Open, effective communication
  • 💪 Resilience, we almost gave up, but pushed through and shipped it!

🚀🔮 What's Next for GlobeGreet

🌱We’re excited to keep growing GlobeGreet:

  • 🔥 Add streaks to keep motivated
  • 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Build a friends system to encourage fun collaboration
  • 🌏 Connect travelers with locals before their trip for real-life practice

🌐🧳 Where This Would Be Used

💼 Business Travels: Imagine you're going on a business trip in an international country, and you want to blend in and show respect for local customs with confidence. GlobeGreet can quickly and efficiently catch you up to speed on local customs, such that you can conduct business with ease.

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Family Trips: The friendly, gamified design of GlobeGreet allows for the whole family to engage in learning before the trip, bringing families together in a fun and fruitful way.

🎒International Studies: For those seeking to move for longer periods, Globegreet helps you connect to people from all around the world and ensures that you’ll be able to make friends wherever you go!

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