AtlasOne / Education & opportunity
Academic planning shouldn’t require knowing the system already. AtlasOne helps high school students understand their progress, explore course requests, and bring their families into the conversation.
01 / A student’s next step
Change one course. Watch the next choice change.
Interactive illustration · A fictional transcript and simplified rules. Changes stay on this page; no account or API key is used.
Start with the record
The project counts a course as passed with a grade of at least 60 and positive earned credits. In-progress work does not inflate completion.
Example math requirement
1 of 3 credits earned
Algebra II can be requested for next year, conditional on passing Geometry. Geometry has not earned credit yet.
Make an informed request
A course request starts a conversation with a counselor. It is not an enrollment or a final schedule.
Keep a person in the loop
In the actual app, counselors review requests, maintain transcripts, and message students and linked families.
This illustration shows pending requests only. The full app scopes counselor access by district or assignment.
Make the plan understandable
Parents see explicitly linked students. Plain-language explanations help make credits and prerequisites part of a useful conversation.
Avery’s progress, explained
Avery has earned 1 of the 3 math credits in this example. Geometry is still in progress. Algebra II can be requested for next year if Geometry is passed.
Preset English and Spanish text for this illustration. In the full project, broader conversational translation and parent read-aloud use optional Gemini services.
02 / The thinking behind it
Coursework, earned credits, district requirements, and prerequisites.
Python calculates progress and checks the conditions for course requests.
Gemini explains academic context; it does not decide earned credits or eligibility.
The engineering
I built relational data models, Django authentication and validation, personalized dashboards, and a PDF transcript parser. The current parser proposes rows for counselor review from a supported table layout.
The application connects student requests, counselor review, and family-facing explanations through scoped access to academic records.
The purpose
AtlasOne is designed with lower-income communities and families navigating unfamiliar school systems in mind. Clear progress, explanations of school terminology, and optional translation can create a better starting point for asking for help.
These are design goals. Usability, language quality, and educational outcomes still need evaluation with students, families, and schools.
Graduation calculations, prerequisite checks, and rule-based summaries run without an API key. The local fallback has limited preset translations. Gemini adds conversational explanations, requested-language support, and optional parent text-to-speech when configured in the Django application. The portfolio demonstration above uses neither Gemini nor a school database.
Graduation feasibility is a heuristic estimate, not an optimal timetable solver. Final academic decisions belong with the school.
Architecture and tradeoffs ↗Academic policy implementation ↗03 / Inside the application
Real application screens with fictional demo records.
A clearer view of progress and possible next steps.
Understand the requirements behind each choice.
Keep requests and student context together.
Bring parents and guardians into the conversation.
Features, architecture, and application screenshots: AtlasOne repository, reviewed September 15, 2026. The interactive planner is a simplified illustration; it does not reproduce the full graduation estimator.