mEdha Quest

Making learning feel like an adventure

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Inspiration

This project was inspired by seeing millions of students in Bangladesh miss out on the joy and curiosity that learning should provide from the elementary level. We wanted to make textbook learning more engaging, interactive, and accessible while remaining faithful to the national curriculum.

What it does

mEdha Quest transforms Class 5 textbooks into a fun, adventure-style learning experience. Students can:

  • Explore subject-themed chapter maps
  • Learn directly from textbook pages
  • Complete interactive exercises and adaptive quizzes
  • Earn XP and track their progress
  • Practise concepts based on previous mistakes
  • Ask an AI teacher questions using current web sources
  • Select Answer just from the book for textbook-only answers
  • View intuitive mathematical explanations using LaTeX, such as:

$$ \frac{3}{4}+\frac{1}{4}=1 $$

How we built it

We built mEdha Quest as a responsive web application using JavaScript and Node.js. GPT-5.6 powers its adaptive quizzes, explanations, textbook summaries, relevance checks, and tutoring features.

Codex helped us extract and organize textbook content, design the learning journeys, implement the application, solve reliability problems, and create automated tests. Mathematical content supports LaTeX so equations can be displayed clearly across mobile and desktop devices.

Challenges we ran into

The biggest challenges included:

  • Extracting accurate text from scanned textbooks
  • Removing OCR errors and unreadable symbols
  • Preventing blank or incomplete quiz options
  • Avoiding irrelevant textbook matches
  • Keeping AI-generated content appropriate for Class 5 learners
  • Making the experience responsive on both mobile and desktop

We addressed these challenges using text-cleaning rules, structured AI responses, relevance checks, subject-specific reasoning logic, input validation, and reliable offline fallbacks.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We transformed nine Class 5 textbooks into 102 interactive chapter journeys. We are especially proud of the:

  • Page-by-page textbook learning experience
  • Adaptive improvement quizzes
  • Source-aware AI teacher
  • Interactive textbook exercises
  • Clear LaTeX-based mathematics
  • XP, hearts, streaks, and ranking system
  • Mobile-friendly and accessible design

What we learned

We learned that educational AI requires strong grounding, careful relevance checks, and dependable fallbacks—not just generated answers.

We also learned how to clean scanned textbook content, create age-appropriate learning activities, present mathematics intuitively, and use GPT-5.6 to support the curriculum without replacing textbooks or teachers.

What's next for mEdha Quest

Next, we plan to add:

  • Teacher and parent dashboards
  • Secure student accounts
  • Classroom progress reports
  • More accessibility features
  • Integrated Bangla learning for wider accessibility
  • Professionally reviewed curriculum content
  • Support for additional grades
  • More personalized learning paths tailored to each student

Our long-term goal is to help every learner in Bangladesh build confidence, self reliant, develop curiosity, and experience education as an exciting adventure.

Built With

  • chatgpt
  • codex
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