Inspiration
The Honeywell STEM Teach Leadership program. We saw how the program empowered educators with the necessary support and content they needed in order to start teaching CS within their schools. We wanted to democratize that access and create a platform where any teacher could come and learn CS with other experienced CS educators.
What it does
It's an online platform that educators can join to find and create CS related projects. Less experienced educators can come onto the platform to search for projects and materials that are relevant to their journey of learning computer science. More experienced educators can also join the platform and create projects in a familiar lesson plan format. Educators can also communicate with each other through an online live chat feature and leave feedback on projects through comments.
How we built it
We started by brainstorming the idea and honing it for about 10 hours. We then started iterating through rapid prototyping and integrated feedback into the app as we worked with mentors.
Challenges we ran into
Ensuring that the design is universal enough to apply to all educators, and implementing all the relevant tools that would be useful to educators.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Designing and creating an app that could be realistically adopted in the real world.
What we learned
It's important to focus on the brainstorming stage and hone your project idea before starting to code. If you don't, you could easily create something that could be unviable in the next 12 hours of the hackathon.
What's next for Spark
We plan to continue finishing the app's features and testing it with teachers in the state of Georgia to get feedback. Once we iterate enough and receive feedback, we plan to deploy the application.
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