Inspiration
COVID-19 has impacted how education is provided for students. As classes move online, students lose the necessary qualities of traditional learning. While there are online tools, such as Khan Academy and BrainPop, that serve as educational resources for students, they fail to provide the proper interaction and flexibility necessary in keeping students engaged. Our team wanted to create an interactive enrichment platform for students to supplement their education and help fill the gaps created by this pandemic.
What it does
We have designed an interactive platform for students to supplement and enrich their education. We also provide a social platform for students to interact with their friends and tutors to improve the lack of social interaction resulting from the pandemic. We also provide encouragement and resources for students to pursue extracurricular activities to allow them to express themselves in a fun and creative manner.
How we built it
We divided the work into two teams. The first team performed extensive research on grade-specific curricula and created study plans for students. Moreover, this team provided most of the information presented on the website. The second team implemented this information into the website and executed the majority of the technical work involved with developing the website. This team also improved designs made by the first team to make them more feasible for the platform.
Challenges we ran into
One major challenge we ran into is how to make the platform interactive and fun for students. To combat this, we tried to give each student as much freedom as possible in terms of the subjects they choose and how long they spend on it. Also, we allowed for sessions where students can work together with their friends.
Accomplishments that we’re proud of
We are proud that we are able to provide a platform that improves the educational and social deficits that result from the coronavirus pandemic. Our Tech Lead, Bryan Kyritz, recently developed a video-chatting forum, called Secure Meeting, with similar features as Zoom. Though the platform was made before the hackathon, Bryan implemented significant changes to make the website more user-friendly, such as chatting, video controls, etc. Our study plan curricula also integrate the importance of mental health and activities they can work on at home!
What we learned
As Learning Curve, we targeted one of the fundamental challenges of the post-pandemic era, education cap. COVID-19 is bound to promote social reconstruction of society, and though there are plenty of resources available, such as Khan Academy and Brain Pop, there is a lack of a platform which integrates all the resources in a cohesive manner. Therefore, we learned that if we can provide them with customizable resources and a little bit of constructive competitions, the students will be motivated to continue their education during the post-pandemic era.
What’s next for Learning Curve
In the future, we plan to allow high school students to sign up as tutors to gain volunteer hours hours by hosting tutoring sessions and make study plans for their students for their college applications.We also plan to extend our partnership with local institutions, such as libraries, as they generally host events to educate children from K-12.
Built With
MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js
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