Coursify wins Rep. Zoe Lofgren’s 2024 Congressional App Challenge in California’s 18th District

When asked what inspired the creation of Coursify, the students said, “In our classes at school, there were always topics that the teachers said were out of the scope for the class. We’ve always been interested in those topics but have struggled to find quality structured information about them. Whenever we turned to the internet it would take hours of digging through videos, articles, and tutorials to come up with some good information about the topic we were interested in. Even then, everything felt scattered, with one video open in one tab, an article open in another, and no comprehensive way to study it all together.That’s when it hit us: what if we could create our own courses? Instead of relying on whatever we could find online, why not gather the best resources automatically, organize them, and build something that actually made sense? We imagined a tool that would pull everything together—videos, summaries, quizzes—so that we could stop chasing down information and start learning in a structured way.
 

That’s how Coursify was born. It’s a platform designed to take the headache out of learning by creating organized courses with minimal effort. You give it a course title and unit titles, and it does the rest, gathering videos, generating summaries, and even creating quizzes to test your knowledge. We built it because we needed it ourselves and now it’s here to help anyone who’s ever felt lost while trying to learn something new. It turns the frustration of endless searching into a simple, streamlined process where learning finally makes sense.”