Problem

While there’s a lot of enthusiasm and energy among the global youth to better the planet and environment, there aren’t many established ways for kids to make a long-lasting impact in their communities. Sustainability is a difficult concept to gain a holistic understanding of, especially without much prior education and experience. Effective solutions require cross-disciplinary knowledge and involve systems thinking and project management skills, and there aren’t many kid-friendly platforms that consolidate the information and skills needed to create tangible sustainability-driven change.

Solution

In our partnership with Kids Save Ocean, we’ve built FateMaker, a platform intended to educate and inspire kids to design and execute on sustainability-driven projects and solutions. FateMaker coaches its users through the Human-Centered Design process as they create their projects, and also provides a platform where users can browse through projects and follow other users/projects to gain inspiration and insight into how they could improve their own communities.

Tech Stack

React, NextJS, DraftJS, Express, MongoDB, Firebase

Main Features

Project View

The various phases and steps comprising each project can be easily viewed using a Gantt chart, allowing users to more easily understand the temporal nature and structure of a project.

Interactive Rich Editor

To support both the generation of design guidance by Kids Save Ocean and enable users to create their own content with freedom, project content is built on top of Draft.js, with an interface similar to the Medium editor.

Project Feed

Users can follow other users and/or projects to stay updated on what others are doing, visualizing progress with a feed with the most recent changes to followed projects or by followed users.