N'kana App: Empowering Lifelong Aspirations
Web & Mobile Development, Education & Mentorship
Technology: AngularJS for Admin DB, Nodejs for Business Logic, MongoDB for database, Flutter for IOS and android app
technology used
Overview:
N’KaNa is an innovative mentorship application designed to guide and support children aged 10 to 17 in shaping their future careers. The platform seamlessly connects mentees with experienced mentors based on their aspirations, while volunteers facilitate the matching process. An integrated admin dashboard ensures a secure and streamlined experience by verifying and approving new users. With its intuitive interface, safe data management, and structured mentorship process, N’KaNa provides a trusted environment for young learners to receive the guidance they need to achieve their dreams.
Designed by our expert developers, this application is built with a strong focus on scalability, accessibility, and user engagement, ensuring a seamless experience for mentees, mentors, and administrators alike.
The Challenge:
Managing real-time role-based UI updates and handling media uploads efficiently were key hurdles. The platform needed to restrict mentor access until six months of volunteer mentorship while ensuring secure, optimized document uploads without performance issues.
The Solutions:
We implemented an optimized state management approach for dynamic UI updates and enforced role-based access rules. Secure cloud storage with compression techniques ensured fast, seamless document uploads, enhancing both performance and user experience.
Mentorship Platform Vision & Requirements:
This N’KaNa application was designed to create a structured and supportive mentorship ecosystem for children striving to achieve their future goals. The platform required a seamless registration system for mentees, mentors, and volunteers, with precise role assignments and controlled access.
Key functionalities included secure user authentication, an intuitive onboarding experience, and an informative section for unregistered users to understand the mentorship process. Additionally, a robust admin management system ensures smooth operations, overseeing user approvals and tracking mentee progress effectively.
Our Approach:
Our client from the Trust for Youth and Child Leadership (TYCL) partnered with us to develop a secure and structured mentorship platform for young aspirants. We built N’KaNa from the ground up, ensuring seamless role-based access, intuitive navigation, and real-time progress tracking.
A streamlined admin dashboard was implemented for efficient user management, while advanced encryption techniques safeguarded sensitive data against breaches and unauthorized access.
Here is what we aimed to deliver
Mentee Progress Tracking
Feedback & Goal-Setting Tools
Engaging & Interactive Learning
Secure Admin Dashboard
Scalable & Secure Infrastructure
Our Objectives
- 1 Establishing a highly secure and structured mentorship platform with well-defined role-based access control, ensuring smooth collaboration between mentors, mentees, and volunteers.
- 2 Enhancing system performance, reliability, and scalability to seamlessly support a growing user base while maintaining efficiency.
- 3 Implementing an intelligent and automated mentor-mentee assignment process, reducing manual workload and ensuring mentees are paired with the most suitable mentors.
- 4 Enabling real-time progress tracking and detailed reporting features to provide mentors and volunteers with valuable insights into each mentee’s development journey.
- 5 Strengthening data security and privacy protocols to protect sensitive user information, ensuring compliance with safety standards and secure access management.
- 6 Designing an intuitive, engaging, and child-friendly user interface that simplifies navigation and enhances the overall user experience for young mentees.
How Askan technologies
Evaluated Needs of Client
We followed a structured approach to ensure a tailored solution:
In-Depth Research & Requirement Analysis
Understanding mentorship challenges to define project scope.
Strategic Roadmap
Aligning platform features with long-term mentorship goals.
Optimized Workflow Design
Ensuring smooth mentor-mentee interactions and progress tracking.
Scalability & Performance Optimization
Developing a fast, lightweight architecture for an uninterrupted experience.
Some of the Key features
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Seamless Connections
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Progress Tracking
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Comprehensive Admin Dashboard
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Intuitive Registration and Listing Modules
- Facilitates the assignment of mentors and volunteers to children based on their needs and goals.
- Provides an easy-to-use interface for volunteers and mentors to view, approve, or track assigned children.
- Offers mentees the ability to provide feedback about their mentors and volunteers.
- Includes a robust tracker module for documenting meetings and monitoring mentee progress.
- Generates progress graphs based on development indicators ranked by mentors and volunteers.
- Provides mentees with regular progress updates through visually intuitive charts.
- Admins have full control over registrations, assignments, and user management.
- Admins can assign, reassign, or release mentors and volunteers to/from mentees.
- Volunteers can register mentees on their behalf and complete their onboarding.
- Lists of mentees, mentors, and volunteers are categorized for easy filtering and searching.
Empowering the Next Generation
N’kana is more than just a platform—it’s a catalyst for change, equipping young minds with the right guidance to turn aspirations into achievements. Through structured mentorship and interactive learning, we’re shaping future leaders with confidence and clarity.
N’kana – A Proud Milestone for Askan Technologies!
At Askan Technologies, we don’t just build apps, we create impact. And N’kana is proof of that. Designed to empower teenagers in achieving their dreams, this groundbreaking app was officially launched by the Pondicherry Collector, marking a significant milestone in its journey.
Adding to the celebration, N’kana was featured in The Hindu, a recognition that underscores its potential to shape young futures. Seeing our work acknowledged on such a platform is not just an achievement, it’s a reminder of why we do what we do: to build technology that truly makes a difference.