SiratEDU: Map for Post-Secondary Opportunities in Ontario

SiratEDU is a platform that helps students in Ontario find post-secondary opportunities based on their interests, skills, future goals, and other preferences.

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SiratEDU for NSBEHacks UofT 2024

About

For NSBEHacks UofT 2024, our group developed SiratEDU. This website provides a comprehensive roadmap for secondary students looking to gain insight into the interesting post-secondary opportunities in the GTA/Ontario.

Inspiration

When applying for university, MyBlueprint was the primary platform teachers used to get students organized and educated on post-secondary opportunities. In our experience, MyBlueprint has drawbacks in user experience and overall responsiveness and feedback. With AI moving into a "customer service" role with chatbots, we wanted to help students focus their attention on programs they care about in a more interactive manner.

What It Does

The website surveys the user to understand their preferences related to demographics, areas of interest, potential careers, and dream schools. Then, based on the user's responses, through Cohere Coral, the website provides a list of target programs/universities that are catered to the individual, as well as potential scholarships/financial aid connected to the programs, and roadmaps on how to prepare/self-learn for the program/career path.

Challenges

This is our first hackathon, so the whole experience is quite new. It is also a heavily software-based hackathon, which we are also not very experienced in. Outlining the website was not too difficult, but we hit a big roadblock in terms of creating a user profile, pulling responses from the Typeform survey, and implementing the Cohere AI into the site.

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