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Meet Quarantina: a Chatbot by RCMMS Girls Who Code
Running out of ideas for how to spend your time during shutdowns and quarantine? Not to worry! The Quarantina chatbot has suggestions for you! Our Reedy Creek Girls Who Code club spent this fall working with our partners from IBM to learn all about chatbots...
Week 1
Club Facilitators: Olivia Spain and Jordan D'Addeo
Club Advisor: Christine Sachs
The club kicked off with:
- Introductions
- Learning about the facilitators - their jobs, background in STEM, and fun facts
- Showed a spotlight video on Ada Lovelace
- Shared the structure for how the sessions will work
- Did a Hopes and Fears exercise together
- Ended with a retrospective
Although this was the first club we've done virtually - it went off without a hit!!
Week 2
- Showed a spotlight video on Alyssia Jovellanos
- Gave an intro into IBM Design Thinking
- Completed an Empathy Map exercise together for our persona
- Project Reveal to the girls!
- Presentation on different types of Chatbots
Week 3
- Showed a spotlight video on Amali de Alwis
- Created categories of social distance appropriate activities
- Broke out into groups and defined activities in each category
IBM Watson Assistant
Presented what an intent and entity is in relation to chatbot design and did a few examples together
Intents are purposes or goals that are expressed in a customer's input, such as answering a question.
Entities represent information in the user input that is relevant to the user's purpose. If intents represent verbs (the action a user wants to do), entities represent nouns (the context for, that action).
Week 4
- Spotlight video: Katherine Johnson
- Mapped the social distance approved activities from week 3 to an intent and entity table to start organizing our chatbot dialogues
Week 5
- Guest Speaker: Liz Hecht gave an awesome HTML and CSS 101 presentation!
- Learned HTML basics: Header, Body, Tags, Formatting (p, br, ol, ul, table, etc.)
- Learned about cascading style sheets - separate CSS docs vs. inline CSS
- The girls did an activity by coding and creating their own HTML page they launched locally
Week 6
- Spotlight Video: Fran Kalal - a Cloth and Simulation Technical Director at Pixar Animation Studios and has tailored outfits and simulated shots on “Up,” “Brave” and “Inside Out.”
- Presentation:
How dialogues bring the intents and entities to life and make them conversational.
- Activity: Create dialogues
Week 7
- Spotlight Video: Danielle Feinburg - Director of Photography at Pixar.
- Set up Trinket accounts to work on HTML page that will hold the chatbot
- Activity: Practice HTML/CSS in Trinket
Week 8 and 9
- Everyone created their own trinket to create their own web page to hold the chatbot
- Test the chatbot and add more intents, entities, and dialogues
- Spotlight Video: Ayanna Howard - Dr. Howard has developed robots that are learning to inhabit Mars with NASA.
- Spotlight Video: Mathangi Sri - Head of Data Science at PhonePe, a financial technology company whose goal is to make digital payments so safe and universally accepted that people never feel the need to carry cash or cards again.
- Spotlight Video: Fernanda Viégas - Founded Flowing Media, a startup that specializes in using data visualization to express ideas and tell stories.
- Peer reviewed and tested HTML pages on trinket
- Final changes to the chatbot
