Moodle: Memorized Doodles wins Rep. Salud O. Carbajal’s 2024 Congressional App Challenge in California’s 24th District

When asked what inspired the creation of Moodle: Memorized Doodles, the students said, “We were all inspired differently, but as teenagers and a tweenager trying to navigate the obstacles of academic life, all of us had the need for an efficient way to study. While paper cards are tactilely pleasing, it is not convenient. We can lose it easily. It’s bulky. It’s easy to forget it when we need it. Because of this, we used flashcard apps instead of paper flashcards when we were studying for tests at school. Our favorite app was the Anki flashcard app. It offers a good amount of tools, such as a ranking system (easy, moderate, difficult, etc), spaced memorization tools, etc. These are all good, but we realized that so many of our beloved flashcard apps, including Anki, did not have a drawing/handwriting tool. It felt quite restricting. Sometimes, we just wanted to quickly jot something down on the phone screen for future study, or draw a Lewis structure to look back on. But all these apps required us to type in something. It’s pretty difficult to type a Lewis structure diagram. Furthermore, those typed words looked very small on the screen, which did not feel good for studying. These reasons were why we wanted to have an app where we could draw on the screen, instead of typing. Since the app allows for doodling, we named our new app Moodle (Memorized Doodle). The goal was to develop an interactive flashcard app accessible to all ages that uses both doodling and typing for studying.”