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Indigitous US - 8/18/22
Summer Cohort Wrap Up!
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Summer Cohort 2022 Recap
We just wrapped up 8 weeks for our Summer Cohort!
During these 8 weeks, 15 student interns learned about missions and applied their skills in four projects.
Objective
Spiritual Topography aimed to remix map data to signal “Theology of Place” to inform churches & ministries as they serve the cities God has planted them in.
Key Insights
Texas, North Carolina, and Georgia had the most churches
California was most populated based on population/church ratio
DC was least populated based on population/church ratio
Challenges
Improving end-user experience
Validating accuracy of data & drawing concrete insights
Suggestions Moving Forward
Layering more data on the map
Cleaning data
Ministry Web of Needs
Objective
Web of Needs was a digital architecture designed to connect people to ministry projects that match their interests.
Key Insights
Applying what was learned in college and connecting it with faith
Challenges
Working on connecting Airtable with FastApi
Trying to connect Airtable to Node.JS
Suggestions Moving Forward
Create a more flexible system for filtering and sorting data
Build a better relationship between tags, tag groups, projects, and users in Airtable
SIL Quality Bible Translation
Objective
SIL is using AI to automatically answer comprehension questions for new translations. The goal is to help validate and check current Bible comprehension questions and generate new questions.
Key Insights
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Different book syntaxes issues arose based on the different books of the Bible
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The AI had trouble generating questions surrounding names
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The AI had trouble processing verses mid-conversation
Challenges
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Finding good, helpful questions that engage the AI to properly evaluating scripture
Suggestions Moving Forward
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Translate good questions and answers into a gateway language
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Using questions to train a new model in a gateway language
Upstream Bible Stories App
Objective
Upstream aimed to take highly crafted bible stories by two missionaries into a an app.
Key Insights
Learning general knowledge for UI design
Working in Flutter and being able to do state transition
Challenges
Learning Figma featureset
Learning to utilize Flutter
Suggestions Moving Forward
Find a way to share the app/story with others
Have ability to save favorite stories
Have ability to add notes to stories
Prayer Requests
Pray in thanks for the students and mentors from the summer cohort in joining
Pray for next steps for the mentors and ministries of the projects
Pray for our Fall recruitment and the people to join our cohorts
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