Mintal

Inspiration

We were inspired by the trend that human society is entering the pandemic age, where international travel and communication drops to the historic lowest record. At the same time, however, international students act like anachronists. This group shows a great demand for normal international travel. At the same time, the pandemic pulls up the price of everything, flight, tuition, apartment rent, grocery… while at the same time, the de-facto social isolation, created by cultural difference and strengthened by the pandemic itself, displays a potential threat to the mental health of international students. Therefore, it is worth investigating and caring about this fragile minor group.

What it does

This platform, called Mintal, strives to provide international students a specific care about their mentality. Through the embedded depression evaluation tests, we measure the student's mental health condition and provide them with more detailed suggestions after careful analysis.

How we built it

After several meetups, we decided to work in this specific direction. We divided the idea into components and then applied frameworks to come up with a prototype. Then, we carefully revised, remodeled, and polished them, to optimize the user experience.

Challenges we ran into

Finishing such a complicated result is already a challenge to us. Plus, we had a hard time deciding the topic as well. Since we applied the latest technologies in the field, it also took us time to get familiar with their system.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

On the front-end side, we accomplished a dynamic plot that innovatively provided a graphical solution to represent user data. On the back-end side, we used docker to flexibly deploy and build up an extendable service of high availability.

What we learned

Team spirit is always the most valuable virtue. Except for working closely with teammates, we also mastered the ability to swiftly adapt to the most cutting-edge framework/library.