Capital Quest: The Great U.S. Adventure
About:
The Great U.S. Adventure is an immersive learning experience designed for middle school students (ages 11-14) with a focus on U.S. geography. Our team included gamification features such as: drag-and-drop mechanics, Artificial Intelligence (AI) - driven chat, and leaderboard rankings.
Mission:
4-Day Hackathon, in which our goal was to provide a learning experience for users that implicated the use of AI. Our team decided to use geography as our topic—as we felt it is a less prominent subject.
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Home Page
Landing page for users; gives them a brief intro to the game and they have the option to start a ‘New Game,’ ‘Continue,’ or head straight to the ‘Leaderboard.’
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Find the State!
Once a new game has begun, their goal is to first find the state that the interactive AI bot gives them—in this case, California.
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State Found
Users have the option to move the pins to any state, upon selecting the correct state, thier first mission is complete. The AI will give them some ‘cool facts’ about that given state, which the user will be quizzed on afterwards.
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State Completion
Once the user has completed all of their items, it will bring them to this page. Here they earn a badge for the state they just completed and get a review of what they did.
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Recap
Lastly, just like a game, users are able to look at their statistics and ranking against other classmates and students.
