Ready

Inspiration 💜

Are you able to read this? Well, count yourself lucky because there are still 781 million illiterate adults globally, who wouldn’t be able to. English is the most-spoken language worldwide, and there’s a significant lack of access to education. This is how the idea of Ready was invented.

For those who are just starting to learn English as a second (or third, or fourth!) language, or for children who are looking to improve their communication skills, get ready to see how language combined with the help of a virtual assistant makes things just a little more magical.

What it does 🌍

The idea is simple: a platform that aims to make learning English accessible and make illiteracy a thing of the past. Users are able to learn the basic English alphabet with audio, practice reading short stories with the help of Red (our very own voice assistant), and practice real-life speaking scenarios in English!

How we built it ⚙️

The user interface was primarily built with a combination of React, HTML and CSS, the navigation bar was built with react-router-dom, and the virtual assistant was built using Alan AI.

Challenges we ran into 😖

Well! This was one of my first times working alone, and I went into this project only knowing basic HTML and CSS. So, it came down to watching hours and hours of tutorials (with no attention span), reading documentation and staring into a long red carpet of errors :,D

Accomplishments that we're proud of 😁

I am proud of creating a functional and interactive website, despite not having much knowledge, to begin with, and having pretty limited time to do so! For this particular hackathon, I wanted to try relying on myself to learn the concepts, after not being a particularly big contribution in my last one, and I’m glad I was able to come up with something even after a plethora of frustration and mistakes.

What we learned 📚

I learnt a lot about the fundamentals of using React, as well as had the opportunity to implement my learnings for HTML and CSS into a viable project. I was also able to learn more about quite a few soft skills, especially in terms of managing my time and finding solutions to errors, even when it seemed impossible.

What's next for Ready 🚀

Well, illiteracy doesn’t only find itself burrowed in English- we hope that in the future of Ready, we are able to make the platform more accessible in other languages, and implement a wider range of topics for our virtual assistant to assist on.

Built With

• alan-ai
• css
• html
• javascript
• react