SmartChoices

Smart Choices is an engaging educational game designed for high school students that teaches financial literacy and budgeting skills through real-life scenarios.

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Inspiration

Financial literacy education is lacking in K-12 programs around the country Financial literacy enabled our team made up of two hispanic first-generational immigrants to achieve financial stability and social mobility As part of the university that is #1 in social mobility in the United States, we want to champion this ideal beyond our campus into our broader community We believe that there can be fun, engaging, and thought-provoking ways to teach financial literacy in a school setting We believe that high school students are the most vulnerable group to making unwise financial decisions during the transition into adulthood, so they are our target audience

What it does

Topics covered:

Budgeting Paying Taxes Credit score and lines of credit Investing Student Loans Interest Emergency Savings

How we built it

Technology Used:

Python ( Programming Language ) Streamlit ( Frontend Development for UI ) Git, Github, WSL CS Subjects Covered:

Data structures Object Oriented Programming

Challenges we ran into

Mechanical Engineering background with little exposure to tech stack frameworks. Unexpected limitations of Frontend Framework ( Streamlit ) when integrating with backend. Team of 2.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We managed to create a barebones prototype of the vision we had as first time hackers despite functionality not being completely there having little no experience with Frontend Development or Tech Stacks with a time constraint of approximately 36 hours.

What we learned

We learned how much work goes into creating full stack applications and our weaknesses only served to show us what we will need to improve on to be better equipped for next ShellHacks.

What's next for SmartChoices

RFID card allows you to spend line of credit or debit LCD screen displays current balance and updates with transactions Software Use of Reactjs or Django for Frontend Development Use of either SQL, mySQL, noSQL for creating, maintaining, and scaling a database for our game.

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