Meme-Ed

Inspiration

Our inspiration for this project was trying to aim for the funniest hack award. After seeing the words, "meme hack," we decided to utilize our vast knowledge of memes to create a sensational, exceptional, absolutely stupendous web application. Thus Meme-Ed was born. Made with love by 4 professional meme experts, meme scientists if you will.

What it does

Meme-Ed is a student built website which focuses on helping students clarify and assure their existing knowledge, as well as learning new information, through memes. You are introduced with a search bar as well as educational subjects, like history, science and much more. Upon clicking the name of the subjects, you are brought to a more in-depth page which highlights important concepts within each subject. After you choose your concept, there are memes awaiting to clarify your knowledge! The technologies used were CSS, HTML, and Javascript all using Atom and Github. The targeted audience for this project is students of either age, ranging from elementary to high school. Our memes are PG-13 so parents shouldn’t worry about what their child is looking at.

The potential impact of our hack would help students clarify and expand their knowledge through the usage of memes. Memes have popularized within recent years and with Meme-Ed they can be utilized as a learning tool.

How we built it

We built Meme-Ed using a combination of Html, CSS, and Bootstrap. Our team worked together to build the web app by editing the html files on the Atom IDE and and CSS files on V.S. Code

Challenges we ran into

Our team’s biggest challenge was learning the concepts within a short amount of time. We are all beginners with no experience with HTML, Github, or Javascript. Funniest thing is one of us had to google how to open a file within our IDE. We overcame these challenges by jotting our ideas down then googling how to make these ideas happen.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of ourselves for creating a publishable website from scratch with no prior coding experience. We are also proud of ourselves for being able to finish and submit this with 1 minute to spare

What we learned

From this hackathon, we've learned that we have forgotten all of U.S history. In addition, we have learned to collaborate as a team, communicate effectively, and manage our time accordingly when on a tight schedule. We've also learned Html and CSS in 24 hours.

What's next for Meme-Ed

At the moment we only worked with the subject history due to lack of time however if given more time we would have added memes as well as other concepts to all the other subjects. On top of this, we would have added a database which would have allowed users to search through the memes by searching certain keywords, make the pages more aesthetically pleasing, and figure out how to allocate the text on “Create Your Own Meme” in real time.