Inspiration
As students, Bradley and I were inspired to develop Smart Labs Study to encourage mental well-being among students of all levels whether they are self taught, in college, high-school, etc... Far too often, students do not utilize basic student life management tactics, and we hope to encourage students to utilize four essential life management skills with Smart Labs Study
What it does
Smart Labs Study is a general-purpose student life management website. It has four life management skills we believe to be the most essential for a student to make the most of their time as an enduring scholar. The first skill is note-taking. On top of encouraging students to take notes by allowing them to upload many of their favorite notes on our site, the website allows students to view other student's notes which builds a community of mutual benefit among students. The second skill is habit tracking. We believe that forming habits is easy. The difficult part is sticking to them. With our habit tracker, our hope is that students will not only form habits but stick to them as well. The third skill is budgeting. Far too often, college students come out of high-school lacking the financial knowledge to spend their incomes responsibly. This is critical because as a college student, they face new challenges such as paying for their tuition, paying for food, and paying for necessities. Our budget tracking feature will help students better manage their income by automatically splitting students' incomes into our recommended 70/15/15 split (tuition/necessities/wants), although it is highly customizable. Last but not least, is our study planner feature. Did you know that not writing down your assignments somewhere causes brain fog? That is because students have to worry about what assignments they have and keep it all in their head. With our study planner, we hope to alleviate students of that burden by allowing them to write their assignments down.
How we built it
Smart Labs Study was built by using a WordPress design framework called Divi, along with HTML, Python, Javascript, Notion, Google Sheets, and Amazon S3. The process of incorporating Amazon S3 was ultimately done by using Python and Javascript.
Challenges we ran into
The biggest challenge we ran into as beginner hackers was that we had no idea what Amazon Web Services were coming into this hackathon. Through extensive research, we came to the conclusion that Amazon S3 would be the best service to implement into our website. Allowing the user to access files and store files in and of itself was a huge challenge. In the end, we were able to allow the user upload the file, but allowing them to access them is a challenge for another day.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
As mentioned previously, we had no idea what Amazon Web Services were coming into this. We are extremely proud of overcoming this hurdle by researching the Amazon S3 service and implementing it into Smart Labs Study.
What we learned
We learned that there are many things that we do not know about. But that is okay. Realizing that we do not know a lot of things in the tech industry only motivates us to learn more and more about relevant tech services.
What's next for Smart Labs Study
Bradley and I are proud of what we have created. As such, we plan on carrying on this project until it is complete and viable for student use. Some things we must consider is creating a user database, mastering Python, HTML, CSS, and Javascript, and doing more research into Amazon Web Services.
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