SkillsX

Scope

SkillsX is a mentor-based learning platform that guides teen students through their first real research project — from picking a question to presenting a finished paper.

The platform structures research into six stages. Students plan their research, explore ideas with mind maps and a collaborative whiteboard, work through guided questionnaires, learn from curated YouTube content, collect and create their own resources, write the research paper, present it, and reflect on the journey. A mentor is available throughout, via real-time meetings built into the platform.

Accessibility tools come built in: speech-to-text, text-to-speech, Google Translate, and a prioritization tool.

What We Built

• Real-time mentor meetings — integrated and tailored Agora for in-platform video sessions
• Collaborative whiteboard — built from scratch in Vue.js on Firebase, with real-time sync across participants
• Mind maps and decision tools — forked and customized third-party libraries to fit the platform's workflow
• Google and YouTube integrations — Google Translate, Google Cloud text-to-speech and speech-to-text, and curated YouTube learning content
• Custom learning tools — interactive tools built in Vue.js from scratch and packaged as reusable libraries

Delivered in close coordination with the client's international development team, 2020–2023.