Lil' Learners

Building Brighter Minds, One lil’ Island at a time

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What it does

Lil' Learners is a fun new alternative to learning tools for students in grades ranging from kindergarten to early elementary school. Allow for Teachers to create classes for their students and take note of the learning, strengths and weaknesses of their students as well as allowing for teachers and parents to track the progress of students. Students are assigned classes based on what each of their teachers needs them to practice and are presented with a variety(in the future) of interactive and fun games that take the teachers notes and generates questions which would be presented through the form of games. Students gain points based on how many questions they get right while playing, and get incentive to keep playing and in turn studying by allowing them to own virtual islands that they can customize to their liking by buying cosmetic items with the points earned from studying.

How we built it

Using OAuth and a MongoDB database, Lil' Learners is a Flask based web application that runs on a structural backbone that is the accounts and courses class hierarchy. We created classes and separated all the types of accounts and courses, and created functions that check for duplicate accounts through both username and email and automatically save accounts to the database or courses to teachers and students or even children to their parents upon instantiation. On the front end, Lil' learners makes use of flask, html and css to create a visually appealing and interactive GUI and web interface. Through the use

Challenges we ran into

Some challenges were making auth0 work with our log in system that we developed, along with one of the biggest setbacks being with 3.js model that we wanted to create to show off the island that each student owns in an interactive and cool looking way, but despite working at it for several hours, the apis and similar documentation for displaying the 3d models in a flask and html environment seemed to be a lost cause.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are super proud of Lil Learners because despite the various different types of softwares and new/old skills that needed to me learned and merged together for it to work, we managed to create something that we could show off and works to convey the proof of concept for our idea

What we learned:

We learned a lot about the interactions between various different software and how to integrate them together. Through the process of making Lil' learners we had the opportunity to try out the data management and back end development, and general software development skills with MongoDB, OAuth and GoDaddy and learn how they work and interact with other elements in a web application.

What's next for Lil' Learners

We are hoping to be able to expand Lil learner's capacities further such as finishing up the 3.js models, fully integrating the OAuth with our account systems, launching our web app onto our go daddy domain, creating a larger variety of games and also providing better visualizations for the statistics for students along with better employments of the points and adaptive learning systems.

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