Find your role model

This application helps to discover role models in specific fields filtered on certain parameters like ethnicity, education, etc. and learn more about them.

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Inspiration

Role models are an important source of inspiration for people, whether as a young child dreaming to be a race car driver, a new employee looking up to a technical leader in the company or a new entrepreneur idolizing a business tycoon.

Especially in male dominated fields like STEM, it's encouraging for young women to discover and learn more about other women who have succeeded in this area. It makes it even more relevant if these role models share similar demography or background with them.

What it does

"Find your role model" is a simple Web App that helps the user to explore role models or leaders in the field of their choice, matching their demography. In addition, they can also ask specific questions about a particular personality.

How we built it

The Web App uses a Gemini to get a list of role models based on the users search criteria. To get mode details about a particular personality, Google Custom search is used to get relevant profile details from the web (like wikipedia). Finally, we use the profile data and get answers to any specific question from Gemini API.

Challenges we ran into

Gemini data is not exhaustive nor current. For more narrow searches, we sometimes get irrelevant results. Also, the detailed profiles of some lesser-known personalities might not exist in a well-structured way.

What's next for Find your role model

There are a few ways to make this experience more engaging and relevant.

  • Offline data creating: Instead of relying on real time web search, a more systematic mining of data from the web of women leaders in various fields from multiple sources, would enable a more reliable and consistent experience.
  • Chat bot experience: When we have sufficient data collected about a role model, we can model an interactive chat bot experience using Vetex AI or DialogFlow for the user to learn more about their role model.
  • Integration with LinkedIn: LinkedIn is probably the only source of accurate and current data about professionals. An integration with LinkedIn to get data would be a great addition.

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