Inspiration

Students at the University of Waterloo often have a hard time finding events that fit their goals and motivations. We want to help students to make the most of their experience.

What it does

UPNEXT curates a list of events based on a user's preferences using Retrieval Augmented generation and

How we built it

*Crawl Instagram for posts from student-run clubs using APIFY *Generate embeddings using Vector Embeddings from Together AI *Upload all data to MongoDB, implement vector searching *Implement front-end in React and back-end in Flask

Challenges we ran into

  • Dependency issues from different together ai versions led to issues
  • Server requests failures

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Completed functional backend for Retrieval Augmented Generation

What we learned

*speedran react apps in 2 hours

What's next for UW-UPNEXT

  • implement front-end solutions

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