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Prototype for the CSC Winter Sparkathon · Trips are invented examples and the AI is simulated. About the prototype
Lo Rifarei

Why Lo Rifarei exists

Because in Italy many school trips never happen, and the best help for anyone organising one is a teacher who has already done it.

The problem

1 in 2

About 1 student in 2 doesn't take part in the multi-day school trip. The most common reason: no teacher is available to lead the class.

Osservatorio Skuola.net, via Il Post, 25/9/2025

7 in 10

7 teachers in 10 would be in favour of abolishing school trips, and 55.5% wouldn't go even for fair pay: the sticking point is responsibility.

Tecnica della Scuola survey, via La Stampa, 17/5/2026

How it helps

A teacher who has already taken a class somewhere knows things no catalogue tells you. Lo Rifarei collects those stories — what worked, what went wrong, "would you do it again?" — so every colleague can find who's been there and ask them directly. More teachers feel accompanied, more trips leave, more students share an experience together.

How we use AI

The AI proposes, the teacher decides: it turns a free story into a card, flags sensitive data before publishing and prepares the draft proposal for the class council. In this prototype the AI is simulated with simple rules written in the code, so it only understands simple sentences: it shows how the flow would work, it does not replace a real model.

The demo data

The trips and teachers you see are invented and marked "Example", except the stories marked as real. No student data, ever. Teachers' contact details are never shown: questions are asked on the platform.

Privacy principles

  • No student data: no names, no photos
  • Teacher emails never shown: questions stay on the platform
  • The privacy guard (AI) flags risky text before publishing
  • Criticise services, never people

What the prototype doesn't do yet

  • What you write stays in your browser: nobody else sees it, so two teachers can't really answer each other yet
  • The AI is simulated: there is no real model behind it
  • There is no real sign-in: you enter with an example profile
  • The trips are invented, except the ones marked as real stories

In the full version

These ideas are designed but not built: they need paid services or more time than a hackathon. In the prototype they carry this label.

  • School code

    The head teacher gives teachers a code. Whoever signs in is recognised as a teacher of that school, with no email or password.

  • Questions that really arrive

    Trips, questions and answers are saved in a shared database: the colleague gets a notification and everyone reads the answer.

  • Colleagues from your school first

    An "In my school" filter and a mark on trips shared by people you work with.

  • A real AI model

    It understands any story, even dictated, and translates trips between Italian and English.

  • Real trips

    Starting from one school: each teacher shares one trip, and the archive grows from there.

Built for

CSC Winter Sparkathon 2026, theme "build technology that brings people together or helps people support one another". A project by xFurti.

Technology

Next.js, TypeScript and Tailwind, deployed on Vercel. The example trips live in the code, what you write is saved in your browser, the AI is simulated with rules. Maps: Leaflet and OpenStreetMap. Photos: Wikimedia Commons.