Money Learn, Money Earn

Inspiration

Money Learn, Money Earn is an interactive money app for kids! We've all been there when you make your first bank account and don't know how to spend your money wisely, but with Money Learn, Money Earn kids will learn good money spending habits to prepare themselves for the future!

What it does

Our app's main purpose is to help teach children the basics of money management. A child is able to mark off chores that a parent sets and gain in-app money to then spend for rewards. Some reward might be 15 minutes of TV time or some dessert! They will also have a chance to put their money into a savings account that teaches them the importance of saving money. By getting a child used to this when their young, they will have less stress trying to navigate their money habits.

How we built it

Starting with a basic educational mobile app idea, we used Flutter, Android Studio, and Firebase to create an interactive app that educates children on money habits.

Challenges we ran into

Some of the biggest challenges we ran into were finding an initial mobile app developing software and integrating user authentication into the app. Most of our team members were relatively new to hackathons and were unfamiliar with this software so there was a big learning curve we all had to face. By using unfamiliar software, we were able to expand our knowledge and strengthen our problem-solving skills and we were able to make an app that we are proud of.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Some of the things we are most proud of with our project are being able to create a global variable to keep track of all the money earned, spent, and saved and creating an integrated user authentication.

What we learned

By working with software we were all unfamiliar with, we were able to expand our problem-solving skills while learning the basics of a new language at the same time. We worked together and powered through difficult problems and found solutions to the best of our ability.