Student Skill Swap

Inspiration

I was inspired to make student skill swap because there is so much potential being wasted. Kids with a lot of time and knowledge could be helping others learn for community hours and learn themselves too! I also believe that learning with another student makes a friendly atmosphere and fun to learn.

What it does

Student Skill Swap is a website where students can connect with each other (provided they're in the same schoolboard) and teach each other or learn new skills. This website has a variety of students and skills to offer. All it takes is a school email, name and password and BOOM, you're ready to learn. On the website students look at others profiles and find a skill they want to learn. After they click on the profile they get the contact of the person and can then reach out to them to learn a skill.

How we built it

We used flask and html to build this website. Nikolay Zhibarev (I) started by making the front end for this program, after that we came up with ideas that this website needs to be easy to use and fully functionable. After that Irvin made the backend to resolve those issues and after that we had a fully functioning website.

Challenges we ran into

This is our first hackathon together and we live far apart so we had to do everything online with each other. The biggest issue was the use of programming languages, my computer did not have anything installed to run flask and we had a big commotion in the last week when I tried to run the program on my computer. In the end my computer ended up using too much space and crashing, but we adjusted to that very well, which included cleaning my computer and downloading the extensions.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud to make a very well built website in our first hackathon together and in a short time. We entered this hackathon pretty late and only had a couple weeks to go. We were very busy with school yet still managed. Finally, our biggest accomplishment is getting flask to run on my computer which for us took about as much stress as finishing the hackathon on time.

What we learned

For next time we should stick with one language, going between flask and html is pretty hard so we are planning to use html and java script for a smoother repo and a smoother time coding. Also we are going to plan ahead so we will not be stuck in a time crunch.

What's next for Student Skill Swap

If student skill swap gets recognition we will try to improve it and later make a petition for the peel district school board to fund a small amount so we could create this website and student can use it in real life. Our idea is that teaching skills on the student skill will earn students volunteer hours which will create an incentive for teachers. We will then ask schools to inform parents regularly about this amazing creation so they will get there kids to learn skills and in turn boom! Benefit to society.

Built With

• dbeaver
• flask
• html
• postgresql