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STEAM Depot®
- Category Development
- Client IDEA Lab Kids® • EdTech Content Operations • Franchising
- Start Date August 01, 2024
- Handover December 01, 2024
The Challenge
Curriculum teams needed to centralize courses and lessons, standardize structure and tags, integrate third‑party resources, streamline bulk materials, and supply orders. and roll out content to many campuses fast. Local operators required granular access controls.
Our Solution
OctoTEK delivered STEAM Depot, a React + Tailwind CMS that powers end‑to‑end curriculum operations with AI‑assisted ingestion and multi‑location controls.
Highlights
- •Course & lesson authoring with previews and consistent standards/tagging.
- •Interactive coding embedded in lessons, framed as game‑style challenges.
- •3rd‑party integrations via API (video, code sandboxes, external resources).
- •AI bulk upload & normalization for large curriculum sets (metadata extraction, tagging, structuring).
- •RBAC & multi‑location tenancy so HQ, regions, and campuses each see the right catalogs.
- •Operational analytics for content completeness and lesson adoption by location.
Tech Stack
React • Tailwind CSS • Node/Express APIs • PostgreSQL • Object storage for assets • Queue/worker for ingestion • Role‑based auth
Impact
- •Curriculum teams ship more content, faster, with consistent structure.
- •Operators roll out new terms across many campuses in one motion.
- •Instructors launch engaging, game‑like coding experiences without extra tools.
Stats
- •Bulk upload throughput: 100+ lessons/hour
- •Time saved per release: 30 hours
- •Locations served: 20+
Services Provided
- •UX/UI Design
- •Front-end Development
- •Back-end Development