Virtual Computing Teacher

Inspiration

I had been thinking of developing a teaching solution for children, inspired by my daughter, using Amazon Polly then I ran into some of the use case of Amazon Sumerian using Amazon Text to voice (Polly) and Amazon Lex. It made sense that this combination would be a lot better.

What it does

It uses an interactive experience to teach and help students study STEM concepts such as computing.

How I built it

I used the Amazon Sumerian platform to build this. The Amazon Sumerian platform allowed me to have a Lex Chat bot to control the quiz aspect and Amazon Polly for text to speech.

Challenges I ran into

Initially the plan was to drive the slides with codes. This was a little bit difficult. In the end I didn't need codes to do that. I wish that an Amazon Lex bot can be activated with a state machine to ask a question without having to talk to it first. That would have solved a lot of problems for me.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I was able to have the core and mostly finish the virtual teacher product within 8 days. And this is with the fact that I had never used Amazon Sumerian before. I had logged in like once during the year, found it confusing and then logged out.

What I learned

I have come to see how interesting Amazon Sumerian is and I look forward to doing more with it in the nearest future.

What's next for Virtual Computing Teacher

I will like to explore using more than just slides. I will like to have videos and animations driving the experience. I will also like to try out using it as a virtual french Teacher. Adding Amazon Translate into the mix.

Built With

• amazon-lex
• amazon-polly
• amazon-sumerian