Tango Platoon Final Projects

The Full-stack Software Engineering: Immersive Tango Platoon completed their final group projects and graduated from Code Platoon’s military Coding Bootcamp. During graduation, the Veteran tech program graduates showcased the full-stack web applications they developed in teams. Here are their final presentations, demonstrating their working applications and describing the front end, back end, and product management tools they mastered during the program.

First up is Cypherpunk. Cypherpunk is an online game for people learning to code. The game presentation shows unique levels teaching intro coding concepts: beginning with “Hello World!” and continuing into strings and integers. It was developed by an Active Duty Soldier, an Army Veteran, and a Marine Corps Veteran.

Check out the Cypherpunk presentation.

BeerBuddies is the next presentation. BeerBuddies helps friends connect virtually over their favorite beers. Users purchase tokens for certain beers through the app, which they can redeem for a beer to send to their friends via a unique QR code. The BeerBuddies team feed metadata through an API integration to create this QR code. The QR codes are also encrypted through CryptoJS to prevent users from creating fakes. 

A team of an Active Duty Naval Officer, two Air Force Servicemembers, a Navy Veteran, and an Air Force Veteran developed BeerBuddies. Dive into their presentation below.

The next project–Behav.io–was created by a team of three Navy Veterans. It is a web application to help software engineers prepare for behavioral interviews. Behav.io features a database of common behavioral interview questions broken down into categories for practice. Each question has its own card with buttons to reveal an answer example and to save the question to a favorites page.

Behav.io also has an AI feedback feature. With the connected OpenAI API, users can receive personalized AI-generated feedback from ChatGPT. The feedback is also stored for users to revisit as they continue to practice their behavioral interviewing skills.

Watch the presentation by the Behave.io team.

Tinder Tots is the fourth project in our graduation showcase. Tinder Tots is a mobile-responsive full-stack web application created by an Air Force Veteran, Navy Veteran, Marine Corps Veteran, Marine Corps Servicemember, and a military spouse. Expecting parents can swipe through prospective baby names on Tinder Tots until they create a ranked list and emerge with a list of shared favorites to choose from. It was made with Python through Django Framework on the back end and Tailwind CSS and Flowbite component library on the front end. The data is hosted in a PostgreSQL database.

SHIFT is a tool to automate scheduling medical student volunteers for events in the hospital system. The scheduler can add events and the number of volunteers needed, and students can indicate their availability and sign up for specific activities as part of the event. SHIFT uses Material UI on the front end and SendGrid Email API to deliver confirmation emails to the medical students. 

Two Army Veterans and an Air Force Veteran developed SHIFT, and a real Chicago hospital system is currently considering purchasing the app from the Veteran tech graduates.

The last demonstration for Tango Platoon is VolunteerCompass. VolunteerCompass is a volunteer management web application for event coordinators. The app also allows users to register for these events and search for new volunteering opportunities in their location on a Google Maps layout. 

VolunteerCompass was developed using JavaScript on the front end in conjunction with the Google Maps JavaScript API. The VolunteerCompass team is comprised of Air National Guard Veteran, Navy Veteran, military spouse, Navy Reservist, and Air Force Servicemember graduates.

We’re proud of the incredible applications showcased during this cohort’s final project demonstrations. Congratulations, Tango Platoon!

The entire project showcase and graduation ceremony is available to watch on Code Platoon’s YouTube channel.