Welcome to Knowledge Forest!

This website is a resource built for curious high schoolers looking to learn math on their own. In a world swarmed with AI generated courses and educational sources, we no longer get automatically exposed to tangents and rabbit holes from internet deep dives. Finding the next logical concept to learn or the path to take to reach a goal concept has always been difficult, and without the human resources to guide us, this becomes even more difficult. Knowledge Forest is a website that visualizes how concepts build and relate to each other. A user can start from their current knowledge level and build up or choose a goal and track it backwards to find a starting point.

The Knowledge Forest website was built over the course of a 24-hr hackathon, and as such, is not as comprehensive as the idea. It currently contains math concepts ranging from Algebra to Optimization. The project idea itself spans all the levels of mathematics, and all of the possible educational fields (machine learning, engineering, biology, etc.). For this project, we chose mathematics, which is something that the team felt that they and the judges could discuss on fairly equal footing and to understand the links/connections made in the knowledge map. We also chose to focus on high schoolers, using high school to college level math, since more elementary concepts would create a crowded map from the many connections needed, while only using very complex concepts would leave to a very chronological and strict map. We wanted to display a mix of these styles.

This project was built using various AI tools. Our team's ideas, prompts, and product went through many iterations from team conversations about the project's audience and goals. The original idea was for the map to render anew every time a user put in a new prompt on the landing page, with related concepts only building upwards. The submitted project renders the map once to reduce time delays and lagging, it shows connections up- and down-stream, and it has connections to other forests (fields).

One day, those other connections will be literal rabbit holes in the forest. Who wants to fund us to that point?