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Class Companion

An AI assistant that fosters a fool-proof learning and note-taking method. This tool aims to leave no student behind, whether with language barriers or focusing issues. We generate live questions and summaries during lectures so students can communicate with instructors better.

The team:

1 Engineer

1 Designer

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Inspiration

  • Students can only write down 40% of important points in a lecture, and only 11% for freshmen.
  • 50% of the students struggle to keep up with their instructor, and don’t know how to ask questions.
  • Students' retention rate is only 5% when it comes to a lecture.
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What does Class Companion do?

  • Generates a note of important points in a lecture, so your mind can focus on grasping the knowledge.
  • Generates out-of-the-box questions so you can have a constructive conversation with your instructor.
  • Store everything and creates review quuestions for you.
demo interface
demo archive

My impact

#1: Designed a responsive React app using Material Tailwind, implemented reliable voice-to-text with WebSpeech API.

#2: Enabled high-speed storage and authentication through Firebase and Flask with MongoDB.

#3: Hosted and configured Nous-Hermes-2-Yi-34B model for optimized response on TogetherAI.

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How was the result?

Positive feedback from six judges

People dug the idea, especially how we stripped away the scare of asking dumb questions.

Expanded experience with MongoDB

There's nothing that forces you to learn new things better than time crunch.

Exposure to open-source LLM models

We had an oppoturnity to tried and compared a bunch of models like Mistral, Llama, and Gemini.

Many new friends

We met many new amazing developlers, engineers, and designers.

Check it out

GitHub

Demo video

Shout out to:

Callista Pham

Hit me up

-> LinkedIn

-> GitHub

Additional skills:

Mess up 30 quarts of Phở: Intermediate

Overshoot medium rare: Expert

By Matt Nguyen. Inspired by Jay Clark