BiolARgy

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💡Inspiration

Studying can easily become a chore and concepts may be challenging to comprehend. This can make learning dull and ineffective when focusing on specific topics, especially ones within STEM. However, it doesn't have to remain this way. Through augmented reality, students are given the chance to learn in a more fun and interactive way with visualization. Abstract concepts become easier to understand/teach, and educational materials become easier to engage with. As a team of students, we were inspired to develop this idea and create opportunities for others through AR learning, resulting in BiolARgy.

⚙️What it does

BiolARgy is a website that aims to provide education on the basics of biology, focusing specifically on the human body (and the five main organs). Its interactive interface, built with echo3D, allows users to view various biological components through an immersive AR experience. We hope that through the AR models BiolARgy brings, our target audience of students is provided with the opportunity to deep dive into visual learning.

🛠️How we built it

We built BiolARgy using the Python flask framework, MongoDB database, and HTML/CSS. We used Echo3D for the AR aspect and hosted our project on repl.it.

🧠Challenges we ran into

One of the biggest challenges that our team faced was the time limit and the difference in time zones. Since we had only 48 hours to build up our idea and professionally implement it, we had to use our time efficiently. We also had to overcome our time zone differences (which was a ~12-hour margin among team members) by consistently communicating and supporting each other through our discord server- staying up until midnight to collaborate. Even though 48 hours was a short amount of time, we believe that we focused well and pulled through our project successfully.

🎉Accomplishments that we're proud of

Our biggest accomplishment is incorporating echo3D in our project, which we all initially agreed upon since brainstorming ideas. Ensuring this technology be featured as the centerpiece of our project was very important to us, so we took our time learning how to use it.

Another accomplishment would be our collaboration as a team. Though we are all busy students, coming from various backgrounds of programming knowledge, AND living in different time zones, we found time to commit our efforts to build this project and learned how to work around our strengths to complete everything within the given time frame.

💭What we learned

Through the development of BiolARgy, we learned how to use echo3D and deploy it into our project, effectively collaborate together as a team, and build an educational, yet interactive website (via Flask, MongoDB) for students to use.

⏩What's next for BiolARgy

A future iteration for our website would include adding more biological components to our library. Biology is an extensive topic that encompasses the study of life, so adding elements such as animals, plants, bacteria, etc. would be a great addition to our project. Furthermore, we hope to make BiolARgy into an app suitable for all devices, in order to increase accessibility.

Built With

• echo3d
• flask
• mongodb
• python
• replit