The problem LearnTEZZ solves

Current Scenario
Currently, there exist multiple forums that provide networking opportunities to aspiring students but rarely a holistic forum that assists to learn and grow together while being updated with the relevant opportunities.

• Lack of guidance/mentorship: E-learning widens communication and socio-economic gaps while failing to be more feasible than the traditional learning paradigm.
• Unawareness of relevant opportunities: Lack of awareness of opportunities holds striving students back from achieving big milestones. It’s demotivating when the resources and energy aren’t being channelized in the right direction besides all the advances in education technology. Consequently, resulting in lost opportunities for some meritorious students.
• No dedicated platform to learn with like-minded folks: Lack of momentum, motivation, and inspiration can be distracting and even discouraging.

Proposed Solution
LearnTEZZ is an interactive web platform where students and professionals from different technical backgrounds can come together to learn, share and connect.

• Users can create and view posts regarding upcoming events, scholarships, technical programs or job openings and also get their doubts resolved
• Users can filter mentors on the basis of parameters like Technical Skills, College, Gender etc.
• Through dedicated chat room for each technology, users can ask doubts or help others
• Leveraging user-privacy options, users can choose to hide their personal information
• Keeping up with the change- Considering the recent change in education policy which introduces coding from class 6, our platform will bridge the gap between the currently followed curriculum and its expected outcome by introducing the skilled mentors for proper guidance and motivation.

Challenges we ran into

• Implementing a real time chat feature was something we were exploring for the first time. Getting familiar with Socket.io library was a bit challenging as the documentation missed some key points so debugging took a lot of time.
• Our application provides a feature to upload images from devices and it gave us some hard time to figure out the implementation to execute it.
• Faced issues while filtering results on Find Mentor page according to their skills. We resolved this issue by using a string pattern searching algorithm.