🎮 Kindness Quest

🌟 Inspiration

Teaching core values like empathy, fairness, and inclusion at a young age is essential. During these formative years, a child’s mind is like a sponge — absorbing everything around them.

We asked ourselves: why not deliver these values through something fun, colorful, and interactive?
Instead of traditional lectures, Kindness Quest makes learning feel like play, combining real-world action with gamified rewards.


🚀 What it does

Kindness Quest is a mobile app where kids spin a colorful wheel to receive daily real-world missions across many impactful categories like

  • 💞 Kindness
  • 🌱 Environment
  • 🚀 Inclusivity
  • 🧠 Learn & Share
  • 🐾 Animal Love
  • ✊🏽 Social Justice
  • 🚺 Women Empowerment
  • 🌎 Cultural Awareness

✨ Each mission unlocks:

  • A micro-lesson, fun fact, or quiz
  • Multi-modal submissions like:
    • 🎤 Voice recordings
    • 🎨 Doodles & scribbles
    • 📸 Photos
    • ✍️ Short text

🏆 Kids earn:

  • Badges and levels
  • Customize avatars
  • Appear on a friendly leaderboard

➡️ Making social good a game they love!


🛠️ How we built it

Part Tool
Frontend React + Expo (PWA-ready)
Avatars Emojis.com
AI Models Gemini Pro (mission/story), Gemini Flash (image/audio analysis)
Backend Node.js
Auth Auth0
Database Firebase Firestore, Auth, Storage

⚔️ Challenges we ran into

  • Matching Gemini models to multimodal needs (voice, image, text)
  • Crafting kid-friendly prompts and verifying AI output
  • Building a prompt validation and tuning service
  • Testing Snowflake API for quiz generation (fallback used)
  • Facing Auth0 limitations with custom transactional emails

🏅 Accomplishments we’re proud of

  • 🎨 Designed a vibrant, child-friendly UI with playful icons and animations
  • 🧠 Accepted child voices, scribbled drawings, and multilingual audio
  • 💡 Generated context-aware missions per category
  • 📬 Sent weekly parent reports showing progress & focus areas
  • 🏆 Built a real-time leaderboard to track social missions
  • 📱 Delivered both mobile PWA and web app versions

📚 What we learned

  • Child-centric AI design is different: Most models are built for adults. We had to handle softer tone, childlike speech, and artistic (non-literal) inputs.
  • Created a pipeline for preprocessing and sanitizing multimodal inputs.
  • Integrated multi-model orchestration for mission, audio, and image processing with graceful fallback logic.
  • Ensured content safety, context relevance, and engagement through custom prompt workflows and filters.

🔮 What's next for Kindness Quest

  • 🧠 Fine-tune LLMs for child-safe creativity, emotional tone, and diversity
  • 🧩 Build a personalized deed engine based on behavior insights
  • 🌍 Enable multilingual support with speech recognition
  • 🔔 Add push notifications for daily missions and celebrations
  • 📊 Expand parent dashboards for actionable feedback
  • 🤖 Explore on-device AI for privacy-first processing

Kindness Quest isn't just a hackathon project — it's a step toward raising the next generation of socially aware, kind-hearted changemakers. 💙

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