jjalora/RapidFire

Statement Starter: Crafting Authentic College Essays with AI & Human Mentorship

Overview

Statement Starter is a Streamlit application designed to assist students in crafting authentic college essays by leveraging both AI and human mentorship. The application guides students through a structured process, providing examples of strong and weak essays, facilitating brainstorming sessions, and enabling them to generate and send a report to their counselor.

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Features
• Installation
• Usage
• Contributing
• License

Features

Module 1: Mad Libs

• Essay Generation: Generates examples of strong and weak essays based on selected attributes and prompts.
• Rating System: Allows users to rate the generated essays.
• Progress Tracking: Tracks and displays the user's progress through a progress bar.

Module 2: Brainstorm

• Interactive Chat: Engages users in an interactive brainstorming session using a chat interface.
• Topic Identification: Identifies a potential essay topic through the brainstorming session.
• Report Generation: Generates a report summarizing the brainstorming session.

Module 3: Statement Starter Report

• Counselor Interaction: Enables users to schedule an appointment with their counselor via Calendly.
• Report Sending: Allows users to send the generated report to their counselor via email.

Installation

Prerequisites

• Python 3.7+
• Streamlit
• Yagmail
• Other dependencies

Steps

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/jjalora/RapidFire.git
   

2. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd RapidFire
   

3. Install the required packages:

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

4. Run the Streamlit app:

   streamlit run main.py