InABoX

Inspiration

When our team was tasked with the problem for lending a helping hand to teachers, we immediately drew upon our DIY approach to create a curriculum to help reignite the love of learning deep in everyone. We all have personal experience how much better and rewarding it is to learn something yourself rather than someone else tell you. So, we created the InABoX curriculum, which bridges together subjects to show students that THEY can do it, and why they should study many subjects and how rewarding it is to know these subjects masterfully. This is why we created InABoX, which engages students in serious academic study. No 'educational' cartoons, or any other silly educational games, but real, academic study that is actually fun!

What it does

According to a study done by Chicago university*, different areas of the brain are active in student's minds when remembering information that they learned themselves vs knowledge that they learned through a teacher. The students that 'did' also had a 7 percent larger test score on average. This is why our kits make an individualized approach to learning, with every student learning by doing, and teaching to the class themselves. Our teaching kits reignite the lifelong learning that is deep inside everyone.

Challenges we ran into

This description was deleted several times, as well as communicating with team members was an issue, being online.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We finished our submission three minutes before the deadline, and we even finished it without any shouting. Even with all of the above issues, we still did it! We bring you the new standard, InABoX!

What we learned

We learned a lot about our collaboration and teamwork. Being in isolation for a year and a half, this has been a new experience collaborating with each other. I also learned to type really fast (being that our submission was deleted 10 minutes before submission because of browser cache deletes)!

What's next for In A Box

Next, we will produce this product to help teachers teach individualized lessons for students, as well as students teach themselves.
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” — Herbert Spencer

*https://news.uchicago.edu/story/learning-doing-helps-students-perform-better-science