Kids Connect COVID

Inspiration

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted lives all over the world. During these unprecedented times, we believe that it's crucial to educate others about COVID safety and prevention measures, especially for the younger population who may be struggling to understand the changing environment. That is why we decided to create an interactive game that not only educates but entertains kids with COVID trivia!

What it does

This game allows the user to choose between two scenarios, one scenario being more technical (doctor’s office) while the other more situational (playground). It is the user's task to answer as many multiple choice questions correctly to gain points.

How we built it

We used Python to extract questions for the game. The front-end implementation was primarily done in HTML and styled with CSS. The back-end implementation was done in JavaScript.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into some difficulty when automating Chrome Web Driver to efficiently extract COVID-19 related questions from related websites. There was also some difficulty implementing the questions into the game because the original intention was to read them in from an external file, but we couldn’t figure out how to do that in JavaScript, since we were beginners with it.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of creating a product in our very first Hackathon!

What we learned

We learned the functionality of Selenium, the importance of pseudo code for a smoother implementation later on. We also learned the functionality of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create an interactive platform.

What's next for Kids Connect COVID

Expanding the question bank to provide more challenges for children. Providing an information block after each question that will provide an explanation behind the right answer. Working with other front-end components to further the function and appearance of our UI.