EduForge

EduForge turns a single lesson into a fully personalized learning experience for every student—adapting content, language, and support in seconds. Built for teachers, made for students.

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Inspiration

  • We chose the Light the Way track because education access is deeply personal to our team.
  • Many of us have seen how economically and educationally challenged communities often have passionate teachers but limited resources.
  • Growing up around underfunded schools showed us how opportunity can shape a student’s future.
  • We were inspired by how the right STEM exposure, teacher support, or learning resource can completely change a student’s path.
  • EduForge was built to help make that kind of support more accessible to every learner.

What It Does

  • EduForge helps teachers turn one learning goal into differentiated lessons.
  • It generates:
    • reading-level versions
    • vocabulary support
    • activities
    • quizzes
    • student-friendly lesson views
  • Students can access lessons with support for:
    • reading level
    • language
    • audio
    • font size
    • low-bandwidth mode
  • Core idea:

$$ \text{One lesson} \rightarrow \text{many accessible learning paths} $$

How We Built It

  • Built with a React frontend and Node/Express backend.
  • Created teacher tools for:
    • class creation
    • LessonForge lesson generation
    • publishing lessons
    • viewing class progress
  • Created student tools for:
    • joining classes
    • viewing published lessons
    • taking quick diagnostics
    • reading adapted content
  • Added a demo-safe local mode so the full flow works reliably during judging.

Challenges We Ran Into

  • Making the full teacher-to-student flow work reliably.
  • Handling missing database/API credentials during local demos.
  • Connecting class creation, lesson generation, publishing, and student viewing.
  • Balancing ambitious AI features with hackathon-ready stability.
  • Keeping the product focused on real classroom usefulness.

Accomplishments That We're Proud Of

  • Built a complete end-to-end demo:
    • teacher creates a class
    • teacher forges a lesson
    • teacher publishes it
    • student joins and views the adapted lesson
  • Made accessibility a core feature, not an afterthought.
  • Created support for different reading levels, languages, diagnostics, and bandwidth needs.
  • Built something that directly addresses educational equity.

What We Learned

  • Equity means more than giving every student the same lesson.
  • Students need content in a format they can actually understand and access.
  • AI products need strong workflows around the AI, not just generation.
  • Full-stack reliability matters a lot, especially during a live demo.
  • Teachers need tools that save time, not tools that create more work.

What's Next for EduForge

  • Improve diagnostics and personalized recommendations.
  • Add stronger multilingual support.
  • Expand accessibility features.
  • Support more subjects and richer classroom activities.
  • Use student progress data to help teachers adapt future lessons.
  • Long-term goal:

$$ \text{Teacher effort} \downarrow \quad \text{Student access} \uparrow $$

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