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OCTOBER 2024
Dear CircleCat Community,
We’re excited to bring you the latest updates and highlights from CircleCat!
Here’s what’s happening recently:
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Featured Programs
Residency Program, Mentorship Program, Seminars, and more.
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Our Residency Program is in full swing! This initiative empowers emerging tech professionals through immersive experiences and hands-on training. If you're interested in jump-starting your tech career as a Software Engineer Intern, don’t miss out on this chance.
We’re looking to the community to help us spread the word about this fantastic opportunity. Please help us share this initiative with your network. If you know someone who might be interested, encourage them to apply! Learn More & Share
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See What Our Residency Program Interns Are Doing |
Learning Agent Project
The Learning Agent project is focused on developing an AI-powered educational tool to help students improve their coding skills. When a student submits incorrect answers, the Learning Agent explains the errors without revealing the correct solution, encouraging critical thinking and problem-solving.
The project is progressing well with help from volunteers. The team have develop a systematic approach to error extraction.
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Recipe Generator
The Recipe Generator is an AI-powered tool designed to generate personalized recipes based on user input, such as cuisine type and main ingredients. Once generated, users can save the recipes and build a customized collection to suit their culinary preferences.
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English Chatbot
The English Chatbot is an AI-powered tool to help users learn English through leveled and voice-based conversations. Volunteers have provided vital support by helping organize the project framework, guiding each stage, offering industrial-grade code reviews, and troubleshooting issues. Developing the voice feature was once a challenge, such as adapting audio input frequencies. Through persistent debugging and adjustments, including renaming files and adding frequency conversion with ffmpeg, the team successfully integrated the voice function into the chatbot.
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Mock Interview Tool
The Mock Interview Tool project is designed to simulate job interviews using AI. The tool extracts resume data from PDF files and uses GPT models to generate interview questions and answers. The team successfully implemented Fitz for text recognition and upgraded the AI model to GPT-4-mini for better, more natural responses. The project is nearing completion, with a demo in place and final tweaks in progress.
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AI Tour Guide
The AI Tour Guide enables users to input a destination and keywords to generate personalized tour information from an AI guide. Interns have received guidance from volunteers on design documentation, coding standards, and code review protocols, as well as answering code-related queries.
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MBTI Answer Book
The MBTI Answer Book is a WeChat mini-program that generates personality-tailored responses based on users’ MBTI types.
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Hear What Our Interns Said |
"This program has been especially beneficial for someone like me who lacks industrial development experience. No matter the problem, my manager Wu, is always patient and helpful in providing answers. I also had the chance to participate in other projects of interest. Additionally, the 1v1 volunteer sessions and monthly meetings with the program lead have cleared up many of my job search concerns. It truly feels like CircleCat is helping interns enter the workforce!"
— Nancy Li
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"I think the Residency Program is fantastic! I've gained a lot from it, such as learning proper coding standards, experiencing teamwork beyond toy projects, and receiving invaluable career advice from experienced volunteers. I also got to explore cutting-edge AI, which has motivated me to pursue learning more about AI and its applications."
— Nora Shi
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We’re excited to announce the launch of our pilot Mentorship Program, featuring 27 mentees from diverse backgrounds. Participants come from 11 schools, with majors in computer science, psychology, geography, finance, and more; many of whom are seeking guidance for career transitions into tech roles.
All mentees have completed their onboarding training and had their first meetings with their mentors. They’re focused on goals like improving interview skills, career planning, and technical growth.
If you’re interested in joining as a mentee in future rounds, sign up for 2025 notifications!
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Seminars
Do you want to learn how to successfully transition into the tech industry from a non-technical background?
Join us on November 13th for an inspiring seminar by Lily Lu, Software Engineer at YouTube. Lily will share her story of making the leap into tech, offering actionable strategies for interview prep, tips on balancing coding practice, and insights into staying motivated while beating imposter syndrome.
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Lily Lu @Google
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A Big Thank You to Our Volunteers
A huge thank you to our dedicated volunteers! Your contributions make a significant impact on our community.
We’d also like to extend a special thanks to our amazing mentors for their participation in this mentorship round. Your guidance and support are helping shape the future of aspiring professionals, and we are incredibly thankful for your dedication.
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