## Inspiration

We created our websites based on technology development. We understand that jobs are really hard to find. Therefore, INJOS was created for them to look up jobs/internships more easily than before. They will also know how to apply and increase their personal skills.

## What it does

INJOS will help students to reach their goal, especially their dream jobs. Just need to sign in or sign up, you will have your own account. Based on the information you provide in our website, we will try our best to give you the available internships/jobs that are suitable for yourself.

## How we built it

Our first method was to go through RippleMatch’s account initiation to see where there was a potential to create something to supplement their efforts in connecting interested students with hiring companies. Through doing this we noticed that the main way to boost their matches (between students and companies) would be to better prepare the students creating profiles. In doing this, we envisioned that the students would then have a greater chance of matching with a wide range of companies (and that RippleMatch would have an easier job matching them), because students would come best prepared for the fields that they were interested in. We then worked front end (using HTML, CSS, and Javascript files) to design a website that takes in student information and allows them to take a quiz in which they can receive recommendations for the next courses and extracurriculars that they should do to be better prepared for their fields of interest.

## Challenges we ran into

Our main challenge was determining how to best format our website to compliment that of RippleMatch and what we would recommend given the students' information since we each university’s curriculum and extracurriculars are so varied. In the end, we kept the quiz questions general and made the recommendations more personalized to accommodate all those using the website. Additionally, it was the first time many of us were doing extensive front-end code, so learning Javascript and PHP on the spot was a challenge, but very informative!

## Accomplishments that we're proud of

## What we learned

Our team could practice coding more and more. And practicing designing is really helpful for this project. The most important thing is that we can make friends. It is really fun. Also learned how to work as a team.

## What's next for INJOS
## Inspiration

Many first-generation and low-income students struggle to break into the tech industry for lack of mentorship on how the industry operates and how the recruitment process works. The idea for PeerMatch came as a way to increase accessibility into the industry by providing students with peer mentors that have already gone through a similar process.

## What it does

PeerMatch matches students from underrepresented groups in tech with a mentor to help them build projects and navigate the tech recruitment process. We hope to also partner with tech companies committed to diversity and inclusion to offer successful mentors exclusive internship opportunities that incentivize high quality mentorship. This way, mentors advance their own careers while giving back to the community.

Mentors help mentees brainstorm project ideas, find resources/tutorials to learn essential skills, and give project feedback in addition to any other insight they may offer.

## How we built it

PeerMatch was built entirely with swift and swiftui. No backend is currently implemented, but firebase would have been used.

## What we learned

We learned a lot about front-end development on this project.

## What's next for PeerMatch

We are looking to add features such as project timelines, campus collaborative communities, and project tutorial pages.
## Inspiration

Students often have a hard time finding complementary co-founders for their ventures/ideas and have limited interaction with students from other universities. Many universities don't even have entrepreneurship centers to help facilitate the matching of co-founders. Furthermore, it is hard to seek validation from a wide range of perspectives on your ideas when you're immediate network is just your university peers.

## What it does

VenYard is a gamified platform that keeps users engaged and interested in entrepreneurship while building a community where students can search for co-founders across the world based on complementary skill sets and personas. VenYard’s collaboration features also extend to the ideation process feature where students can seek feedback and validation on their ideas from students beyond their university. We want to give the same access to entrepreneurship and venture building to every student across the world so they can have the tools and support to change the world.

## How we built it

We built VenYard using JS, HTML, CSS, Node.js, MySQL, and a lack of sleep!

## Challenges we ran into

We had several database-related issues related to the project submission page and the chat feature on each project dashboard. Furthermore, when clicking on a participant on a project's dashboard, we wanted their profile to be brought up but we ran into database issues there but that is the first problem we hope to fix.

## Accomplishments that we're proud of

For a pair of programmers who have horrible taste in design, we are proud of how this project turned out visually. We are also proud of how we have reached a point in our programming abilities where we are able to turn our ideas into reality!

## What we learned

We were able to advance our knowledge of MySql and Javascript specifically. Aside from that, we were also able to practice pair programming by using the LiveShare extension on VSCode.

## What's next for VenYard

We hope to expand the "Matching" feature by making it so that users can specify more criteria for what they want in the ideal co-founder. Additionally, we probably would have to take a look at the UI and make sure it's user-friendly because there are a few aspects that are still a little clunky. Lastly, the profile search feature needs to be redone because our initial idea of combining search and matching profiles doesn't make sense.

## User Credentials if you do not want to create an account

username: [revantkantamneni@gmail.com](mailto:revantkantamneni@gmail.com)
password: revant

## Submission Category

Education and Social Good

## Discord Name

revantk16#6733, nicholas#2124