VORP Task

Inspiration

As we thought hard on what to make, we thought of problems that we ourselves faced as students and decided to make something that would benefit other students like us. The goal was to stay organized in an easy and convenient way, while utilizing ai to act as a personal assistant to satisfy and cater to individual student needs.

What it does

VORP Task takes from Canvas Student, Google Calendar, Microsoft Calendar, and similar websites and applications in order to compile the perfect planner. Not only does it organize work in one neat and simplified space, but it also sends alerts based on time allotted for studying and working on projects in advance. In addition to that, it generates a daily and weekly schedule and To-Do list based on the hour to give students the mental comfort of knowing that their study, work, chore, and personal time are all budgeted into their day without the rigorous effort of manually creating it.

How we built it

We divided our team into frontend, which was handled by Valentine Pena and Ontika, and backend, handled by Rabia Jafery and Pragna Goura. For the frontend, we utilized HTML, CSS, Figma and Canva, and for backend we python, Github and Flask.

Challenges we ran into

This was our first hackathon for half of our team, so there were some learning curves and hurdles that we had to overcome. Some of those hurdles included connecting backend to frontend, using languages we were less experienced in, and implementing Canvas API. We really tried to go out of our comfort zone to create something we all believed in and though it resulted in a larger and longer project, we are happy to have been able to use this opportunity to learn.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Despite our challenges, we all worked very hard to execute what we could and collaborated really well together. The most meaningful accomplishment of our group was that we were all able to learn from each other and provide mutual support to amplify our productivity and effectiveness.

What we learned

Throughout this event and the development of VORP Task, we learned the process of creating a full stack program and how to use various design tools. We dove deeper into areas that we were previously not fully comfortable with, such as python, APIs, web scrapers, and responsive design.

What's next for VORP

We want to further develop VORP Task into a fully functional website and application as we feel very passionately about this project and want to complete and launch it.