SchoolBud

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Inspiration

Now is the time of year in which many high school seniors are slowly starting their transition into colleges and universities around the world. This is the first time where many students are moving away from home. As I am sure we all know, there is a culture shock that comes with this.

Many students will feel stressed, lost, and anxious during this extremely important period of transition. Sometimes, this feeling persists past just the first year of colleges.

Oftentimes, universities offer resources for students to help them find their path and communities, however since many institutions are extremely large with over thousands of students in each class, this feeling of isolation and anxiety among incoming students still prevails.

The help that students need may range from quick career guidance, course selection, social advice, club involvement… and there is no streamlined way for these questions to be answered

What it does

We are SchoolBud, a mentorship service for college students. We are a free resource for college/university students to obtain guidance from older students or mentors. Underclassmen can swipe through potential mentors, similar to tinder, and read about their majors, extracurriculars, and interests. If an underclassman sees a potential mentor that has similar interests, they can “swipe right” and message this mentor.

While underclassmen can gain invaluable guidance, upperclassmen will be incentivized to participate and become mentors through volunteer hours and the opportunity to make meaningful, lifelong connections.

While students can choose to search for only mentors/mentees in their own school/region, they will have access to college/university students all around the nation.

Our mission is to create a safe, trustable, collaborative platform for college students to create meaningful mentorship relationships.

How we built it

We created it with WireFrame.

Challenges we ran into

Our challenges were completing this within the time frame and coming up with an idea.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We have a working rough outline for a business model that is feasible.

What we learned

We learned a lot about the structure on how to advertise to universities.

What's next for SchoolBud

We hope to find a developer to develop the front and back-end of this app. We also hope to start advertising via social media.

Built With

• wireframe