MentorNet

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  UI OF MENTORNET

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  UI OF MENTORNET

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  UI OF MENTORNET

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  LOGO OF MENTORNET

Inspiration

Being FGLI students and college applicants ourselves, we’ve shared our past experiences and decided to create a headline for an app. Seeing current apps and their mechanisms, combining them into helping specifically FGLI students share with others and help each other out. As rising seniors, and college freshman ourselves, we know the importance of alumni network. The college application process starts from grade 9 and the grind continues till one receives their highest required degree and in this world where a college degree is still seen as one of the most prominent things to be put on the resume, we know that MentorNet is just what we would have needed while starting out wherever in the journey of college application.

What it does

The idea for our app, MentorNet, seeks to aid mentees towards mentors. Reinventing the idea of business cards, and replacing profiles with them, would show the world, mentors, and what the individual wants and is. By incorporating features from apps we all are familiar with, this app for matching and connecting with others can be a success.

How we built it

In future, we think creating a cross-platform app on Android Studio using Dart for frontend and Firebase for backend would be ideal. We created the pitching deck using Canva and the templates of UI of app using Figma.

Challenges we ran into

We couldn’t seem to figure out what how the app would look like if we made it through code, so we brainstormed and created more of a pitch. Our team was pretty diverse, having different backgrounds, different experiences, we faced trouble in finding the common path to incorporating answers to all our questions in one place. Someone liked LinkedIn more, and the other Roam, thus we incorporated everything in one place.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of creating this idea which will, if applied, be able to connect many mentees to very helpful mentors across the country. Finally completing the same also is a huge accomplishment since each one of us were in different timezones. Staying up all night, waking up early, having discord conversations and helping each other out at different points during the same definitely helped us understand not only our own but each other's strengths.

What we learned

We learned how important it is to connect with others, and build relationships with people who can potentially change your life. With MentorNet, the goal is to help mentee’s get answers to their questions and guide them in the right direction. We also learnt the looming gap in the counselling industry. As we say the gap between rich and poor is growing, this is one of industry that is the hidden cause of the same as they cost thousands of dollars and most of the minimum-wage earners cannot afford this and have to ultimately sacrifice their Harvard-dream.

What's next for MentorNet

For MentorNet, the next steps would be incorporating more of a solid system, and marketing the app towards FGLI mentors/mentees to try out. Also, coding the app and publishing would be an 'of-course' measure.

Built With

• canva
• figma