Roundabout Learning

Part of the homepage
Arithmetic
Letters
Figma Plan
Our initial plan on google doc

Inspiration

We wanted to work with something that we felt confident we would be able to finish. We decided on an idea that we felt would be useful to educators and students learning virtually during the school shutdowns. Our final idea coalesced around a learning platform where educators could interact with their student audiences while they broadcasted on Zoom.

What it does

It provides numerous interactive learning tools for educators to share with their student audiences, and allows young learners to solidify their understanding of concepts that align with common core standards. Our website provides lessons on vocabulary via usage of a list of high frequency words relevant to the grade level, arithmetic, and pattern recognition.

How we built it

We built our web app using vanilla javascript, html, css, boostrap, and jquery. First, we planned it out on google docs, we brainstormed then we narrowed down our ideas until the most feasible and exciting was remaining. Then created a collaborative figma session to plan out the general site layout. Then we broke into teams to work on seperate parts of the project.

Challenges we ran into

Staying awake towards the end, for starters. Just a joke! But seriously, this was a lot of fun and it was the first all our group members have ever participated in. We put off integrating our project with azure until the final hours, and unfortunately the demo can only be downloaded off the github rather than running off a live sight. However in our video we go over the main features.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Completing this project knowing that my Mother, who is an elementary school teacher, will be able to utilize this tool with her pre-k and first grader students. Completing my first hackathon has given me a real high. :)

What I learned

I learned that through the power of friendship and coffee, anything is possible.

What's next for Roundabout Learning

My mother is probably going to share it with all her teacher friends, it might go places from there, who knows.

Built With

Submitted to

ShellHacks 2020

Created by

I had a little to do with the inspiration for this project, however I mostly credit my mother for helping me hammer out the details.

Ernesto HKirk
I suggested a way to allow varying numbers of panels on the roulette wheel, and helped on making the roulette wheel more easy to instantiate and interact with other parts of the code. Just like the rest of my teammates, I pitched into the pool of content that populated our different pages and roulette wheels.

Brandon Xue
I worked to help get the roulettes spinning. I focused on modularizing my project so that my group members would easily be able to use our assets in different ways. Also created an algorithm to help with the randomization of the options to be displayed on the roulettes.

TheRizz Martinez
My contribution to this project consisted mostly of helping with web page design and development.

Jacob Rapmund