As current university students, we were inspired by the use of technology as a alternative of traditional, in-person teaching. As students, we experienced first-hand how online teaching can affect our lives, not only in regards to our education but also how it can affecte our mental and physical healths.
From there, we discussed the shortened students' attention and concentration span as well as the abundance of distractions that surround us when we undertook online learning - including our experience during this program! That's when we decided on this idea of a software that can help teachers find out who has trouble understanding the given content as well as people who are not paying full attention during tutorials. With this software, we envisioned that it could not only help teachers, but also students who may be too shy to approach teachers after class or who may be embarrassed in admitting they need help infront of their classmates.
In building this prototype, we engaged and took notes in all of HEX's workshops and sessions to gauge a good understanding on how to begin a prototype. This began from the first goal-setting workshop, all the way to the last pitching workshop. Furthermore, we were also given a more in-depth understanding of matters during the Covid19 pandemic, as well as amazing entrepreneurship skills.
For the first few checkpoints, we all spilt the work evenly amongst ourselves. However, when it came to the last two days, we decided to spilt the work - Adrianna and Zijian on the prototype (Figma) and Ziyang and Gabrielle on the pitch video (Biteable). There were a few pivotal changes that were made before we ultimately concluded with BOOP, our prototype software! With good communication and teamwork amongst ourselves, we were able to finish the challenge with ample time to spare.
During the last week, we really grew as a team and quickly began to understand how each of us work in a team. What made this experience so much better was that we all worked hard and did our part of the challenge. Everyone was also super helpful, accommodating and positive. This was a really intense but fun week for all of us. Lots of new skills were learnt with the help of many amazing mentors and speakers.
Thank you HEX for organising all of this!
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