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Revolutionizing Real-World Experience for Bootcamp Students

Apiary is a platform designed to display student projects with the goal of fostering partnerships between companies and Practicum and provide valuable work experience for bootcamp students.

  • Content Architecture
  • Frontend Development
  • API Design
  • Deployment
The Slice web application showing a selected user annotation.

Bringing it together

Bootcamp students needed a better way to get real world experience. Before starting this project, the bootcamp reached out to companies individually to get students onto real world projects.

Our solution was to create a portfolio showcasing past student-company collaborations. With project examples and testimonials, interested companies can discover students they would like to work with, and students can get work experience for their resume.

The layers sidebar design, now with user profiles.
Multiple user annotations on a shared layer.

Improving the experience

A problem we were tasked to solve was to make the site editable by laypeople. To solve this we used Contentful's CMS API. In addition, we added the ability to deliver images by CDN based on file size using Contentful's GraphQL Content API for a blazing fast site.

The new My Slides tab in slice, showing annotated and favorited slides.