Terp Hub

A Technical social platform/club for the University of Maryland students to connect and grow through collaboration. Students can share DIY projects, access tutorials, and participate in challenges.

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Inspiration

Bit camp is I and my team's first hackathon, and it showed us just how much collaboration can help while growing in tech by meeting and discussing with people with more experience and insights, attending workshops, participating in healthy competition, and having the opportunity to showcase projects. This inspired us to make a social platform where students in a local area, in this case UMD can always have access to resources like this without waiting for big events like bit camp every year.

What it does

Our project is a social platform that connects Tech students by giving them access to resources to help them learn and a stage to showcase their Projects to encourage learning.
The app features:

Project ideas:

A section that gives students inspiration on what type of projects they might want to take on next. with recommendations on tutorials and DIY projects.

Project Spotlight:

This allows students to showcase their projects, students are more likely to start projects when they know there would be a way to showcase them and get meaningful feedback from the community.

Workshops:

A list of locally available workshops that students can attend to build their skills these workshops will be hosted by the Terp hub club later down the line when we get more student interaction and ultimately more funding and sponsors.

Meetup & connect:

Helping students connect with other students on campus to encourage collaboration and mentoring.

The Hub:

A general forum for students to share thoughts and ask for help.

How we built it

We built the mobile app using Flutter as the front-end framework and Firebase for the back end.

Challenges we ran into

During the process, we ran into a couple of challenges:

  1. Learning to use flutter and firebase
  2. Developing, and designing as much of the app as we could while we also brainstormed ideas with the time we had.
  3. Gathering publicly available resources

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of the fact that we were able to come up with an idea that holds so much potential despite not being able to complete development, we plan to continue working on it till the official launch. We as a team had little experience with developing with Flutter and we are proud of what we were able to achieve and what we can achieve in the future.

What we learned

We learned a lot about Flutter and working with VCS like GitHub and design applications like Figma we also learned what it takes to build a project from the group up as a team.

What's next for Terp Hub

Bit camp was just the birth of the idea, we plan to continue development subsequently till we eventually become what we envisioned for the project. The end goal is to become self-sustainable and to have the ability to host events and provide locally available resources to help students. If our hope becomes reality, we plan to branch out to other schools after gaining a strong hold in UMD.

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