Inspiration
We were inspired by our personal struggles surrounding task organization and procrastination, and how we've all strived to maximize productivity and time efficiency during our study sessions. We were also inspired by the Pomodoro Method, which involves 25-minute periods of concentrated work followed by five-minute breaks to cultivate efficient work habits. As students at Northeastern and Vanderbilt, we are well aware of the need to utilize the time we have to balance academic and personal interests. Knowing that we all shared the same need for a way to help visualize time going by, we knew we needed to make JumpStart.
What it does
Our website allows students to organize tasks while managing their time through Pomodoro timers. They are also able always to create a new study session and have their past study sessions and their information saved.
How we built it
We built this website with ReactJS, CSS, and many components from React-Bootstrap.
Challenges we ran into
We ran into challenges when trying to add more of the backend features like different users. As none of us have any backend experience whenever we ran into an error it took us a long time to debug and eventually the time constraint forced us to cut out many of these capabilities.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are extremely proud of our team's commitment to trying to find multiple ways to approach problems, whether it was to make code simpler, or even just to make it more readable. As mainly first-year students, we had limited coding knowledge coming into this Hackathon, but we used every bit of brain power (of course, any remaining after our sleepless night) to create JumpStart!
What we learned
We learned that it was important to divide up roles accordingly to maximize efficiency. A few hours into the hackathon, we realized how important it was to fully plan out our idea before executing it. Along the way, we learned how to debug code using stack-overflow, which some of our team members were unfamiliar with. Overall, this was such an integral experience for us and our future careers.
What's next for JumpStart
In the future, we would like to implement storing individual statistics for specific students. We want to be able to tell students where they study best based on the number of tasks they get done and how many breaks they take to further maximize their work efficiency.
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