San Ramon Students Create Vertex, AI-Powered Study App
SAN RAMON, CA — Four Dougherty Valley High School students have created a free, AI-powered web application called Vertex to help students study.
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Vertex uses AI to create personalized practice problems, custom flashcards, and study materials tailored to specific classes and difficulty levels. Students input their classes to receive targeted content, and can reach out to a larger community for questions and answers.
Co-founder Akash Abburi told Patch that the team hoped to create a free “one stop shop” for all studying needs.
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“Right now the main study resources available are Khan Academy (practice problems), Quizlet(flash-cards), and Reddit(Community help),” he explained. “When students have trouble with questions, they often search for problems on Google which just gives the answer and students don’t learn anything. Our study assist feature provides students with detailed step-by-step solutions. The only applications with that feature require paid subscriptions. With Vertex, we are able to combine all these different types of resources into one platform using AI to generate unlimited resources.”
Students can log in and upload all their courses. They can either select a specific topic for their class already built into the application, or upload what they need by entering it into the prompt box and uploading an image.
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The team, which consists of Akashi Aburri, Nikhil Rao, Vinay Rao, and Arnav Gupta, spent two months developing the app using Firebase and Google’s Gemini API. Since launching in early August, the app has obtained over 2000 users, including 200 at Dougherty Valley. They are currently working to get the app onto the SRVUSD’s portal, which will make it accessible to over 30,000 students.
The team hopes to take their app well beyond the school district. They presented Vertex at an IPO event in Menlo Park, where they were the youngest presenters, and received offers from several AI and business consulting companies. They have also entered Vertex into a Gemini app challenge, which readers can vote for here.
See here to download Vertex. More information can be found on the Vertex Instagram page.
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