WaHooWest

This town ain’t big enough for the two of us. In WaHoo West, exam prep turns into a Wild West showdown. Challenge a friend, race against the clock, and outsmart your opponent to come out on top.

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Inspiration

Rice Pupusas is a team built of first generation low income students from Virginia attending a University that historically hasn't welcomed us. Having a fun and accessible resource for SAT prep would have prepared us for the exam that would be judge on our college application. Taking the SAT and scoring well can open the door for students like us to access higher education. Dennis Ni, is a SAT tutor for Teach for America where he has heard time and time again how boring traditional study methods are, inspiring us to gamify what can be an intimidating experience for students.

What it does

Gamifies SAT PREP to engage students and encourage studying in a fun way. Also familiarizes the audience to test question in a relatively low stake environment

How we built it

Having no prior knowledge of sockets, we used a youtube video (sourced in sources.txt) to layout the initial python background and from there implemented changes to adapt to our vision. We then transformed the code to typescript as it was easier to work with/more familiar

Challenges we ran into

There were many bugs that appeared and remained as a result of relatively low experience in coding at a professional level. Using many api was rough to deal with as each platform required different troubleshooting

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of all we learned throughout this experience, being our first time participating in a hackathon, we were pleasantly surprised of how much we could do in such little time. We created a produce that we are all proud of.

What we learned

Overall, we learned to use AI as a tool to enhance our "superpower". Not just copying and pasting the code, but trying to understand what to prompt the AI and effectively implement the code despite many bugs.

What's next for WaHooWest

Debugging some formatting errors and using more advance AI to tailor personalized feedback. Keeping track of user's weaknesses/strengths. Also engaging features as as power ups, minigames, other modes, etc.

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