Parvus Education

A supplemental tool for online elementary education that focuses on electives-such as art, music, PE, and bookclub- and promotes creativity with engaging games and problem solving activities.

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Inspiration

Being a group of innovative students, we were excited to take the opportunity to create a startup addressing a prominent issue in today’s world.

What it does

This site allows students to take lessons on many elective subjects. Students have a dashboard that takes them to these lessons. Elementary school students will flourish in creativity by maintaining a 3-step process including video, written, and playable content. This short cycling keeps students engaged and active in learning. Students may additionally view all classes via the class list page. Teachers will be able to track progress and assign already-existing or new lessons to their students with ease.

How we built it

Daniel and Ethan created the site using a Python Flask web server. It uses a nested data structure of subjects, units, and lessons built as Python classes, providing for easy serialization. It is being hosted on pythonanywhere, a python-specific web hosting server. The pages were developed iteratively by working down the link tree from the least clicks to the most clicks to reach a given page's URL.

Challenges we ran into

Since we know each other pretty well, at times it was hard to stay on task and be productive all the time. However, we were able to overcome this and it didn’t deter us for very long. In website development, we were initially slowed very heavily due to trying to use ReactJS, a framework that our developers were not familiar with. Moving to Python Flask greatly quickened the development process.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

All of us are really happy with the way the mock graphic designs of the site's UI turned out. We used Microsoft Publisher to create these images. We are also proud of the functionality of the website and of developing a framework that makes content render modularly, meaning the implementation of a lesson-creation system would be very simple.

What we learned

We learned a lot about how to work as a team. We spent a lot of time formatting all the information in a way that is effective and professional. We also learned the importance of working with development tools we are comfortable with when working on a limited timeframe. Learning new frameworks is useful, but not when it severely burdens the development process.

What's next for Parvus Education

After we start gaining market share, our net revenue will increase and we will have more money to invest in our growth plan. Phase 1 of this plan involves adding more subjects like core subjects and foreign language. This way we can serve as a fully online education tool and market ourselves as a homeschooling service. Phase 2 includes altering our website to be compatible with popular education sites, like Google, in hopes of forming partnerships and growing connections. Our hope is that working with sites like Google will help increase our market share. In Phase 3 we will conduct research on worldwide education systems and cater to needs to grow internationally. In Phase 4 we will enact a merger and acquisition exit strategy with a partner or bigger corporation, like google.

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