# ZAAL

- **Event:** [Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon)
- **When:** Oct 26, 12:00 PM – Nov 4, 9:00 PM (EST)
- **Where:** Online
- **Team:** [Bahareh Bahreman](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/BaharB)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/baharb/ZAAL-Hackathon
- **Demo video:** https://youtu.be/ehE3jHjSbfM
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4767

ZAAL is a Farsi learning app for young children growing up far from home. I'm a mom and a developer, and I built it for my own daughter: every day she knew fewer Farsi words, school is all English, and most Farsi apps teach formal textbook Farsi instead of the everyday spoken Farsi families actually use at home. Kids end up unable to talk with their grandparents.

ZAAL is already live on the App Store. For this hackathon I built ZAAL Quest, three new games powered by Meta's models:

1. A storybook from their own toys: the child (or parent) snaps a photo of the child's real toys. Muse Spark finds each toy and turns it into a character, then writes a short illustrated story in everyday Farsi starring those toys and the child's app buddy. Muse Image paints every page, using page 1 as a style lock so the characters stay consistent across the whole book.

2. Their drawing comes to life: the child draws anything (a heart, a cat), and the same pipeline turns the drawing into storybook characters and a Farsi picture book. Parents and kids read the stories together, which is how young children learn a language: words about things they love.

3. Picnic with Grandma: a guided adventure in spoken Farsi. The child picks a buddy, chooses fruit, food and a ball color, counts and names colors along the road, and meets the buddy's Grandma at the picnic. A keepsake photo is saved for the family. Every choice is the child's own, and it connects them with family.

Child data stays on the device; stories are saved to the family's story shelf locally. The app is landscape, works on phones and tablets, and is built in Expo / React Native.

## More from Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon

- [Glassbox](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4764)
- [Weft](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4765)
- [Heist](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4766)
- [FORMA](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4768)
- [CoalitionKit](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4769)
- [Tercero](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4770)

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