Educate -ish

A one-stop shop for students to find everything they need to be successful in school: materials, practice tests, peers, and tutoring!

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✨Inspiration

We've all had trouble finding the resources we need to study at some point in our lives but did you know that almost 72 million children don't have access to affordable education? Learning this shocking statistic inspired us to create Educate -ish, a place for students of all backgrounds to easily and affordably find all kinds of resources, that we take for granted most of the time, in one place.

👩‍💻What it does

Educate -ish was built with the purpose of providing students with all the resources they need to succeed in their academics. After the user logs in, they are met with the dashboard, which shows all the user's posts in three categories: sales, practices, and tutoring services. The next page is the post page, with a form that changes depending on the type of the post. The next three pages display the posts, with the first for sales, the second for practices, and the third for tutors. The final tab on the navbar that is the Peer Finder tab, which allows the user to register and make friends with other users on the site.

🔨How we built it

We built this project using Django and Bootstrap mainly, and our work methodology was building from the bottom-up. This was really helpful in a project as complex as Education -ish, because we crossed each bridge when we came to it.

💀Challenges we ran into

In a project as complex as Education -ish, we ran into many problems. Some of the main ones were:

  • Post page with dynamic form
  • Uploading and displaying the images and files
  • Collaborating, since we were in different countries
  • Sending the emails
  • Getting the filters to work
  • We were all new to Github and Bootstrap

😁Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Collaborating across borders
  • getting the image to upload through user input
  • The sales option because it also promotes reusability
  • Architecting a complex web platform and implementing it to be completely functional

📘What we learned

  • Bootstrap
  • Django
  • Github

🔮What's next for Educate -ish

  • adding a machine learning algorithm that uses search history and location data to recommend posts, peer connections and tutors
  • adding a donate page for people who want to contribute to the cause
  • adding better filters
  • adding review and like features
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