AppointAlic

Inspiration

The Challenge our team chose was UofT’s Engineering challenge. Our goal was to create a hack that Black students interested in STEM can use to access information on programs, scholarships and resources. This can make their undergraduate experience by matching them with eligible scholarships that correspond to their field of interest. By providing Black students with information that can help them secure positions and financial aid, we can use this application to increase the enrollment and retention rate of Engineering students of color, which coincides with NSBE’s mission.

What it does

Creates a user profile given student info Modulates the info and matches them with fitting scholarships based on institution, program, financial need, etc Links to engineering programs and the scholarship database

How we built it

Coding language: Python 3 Web/App Design: Bubble.io (attempted), Python TKinter IDE: Replit, VSCode

Challenges we ran into

Figuring out how to use Cohere API

Getting our code to upload mp4 files as supplementary

A lot of bash library installation issues 😅

Interfacing the Bubble.io app builder with our backend code

Flask backend integration

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The Code itself

What we learned

APIs, Machine Learning, Python libraries

What's next for AppointAlic

Implementing an AI chatbot Including programs and scholarships from more schools, (we focussed on McMaster and UofT for this version) Importing MediaInfo so we can upload MP4 files to convert to text files for program to read Running a similar program to look into potential co-op or internship postings on the internet that may appeal to the user

Built With

• python