Every year Google offers the Venkat Memorial Scholarship to 6 students from India pursuing Computer Science or a closely related field.
Google specifically looks for university students who:
Selected students receive a financial award of 750 USD towards tuition and education related expenses, and will be invited to visit the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California, USA. Selected students will also have an opportunity to submit a proposal, and potentially receive a funding of up to 225 USD to spend on growing computer science in the local community.
This is an amazing opportunity, but many students are either unaware or not confident enough to submit an application despite being smart and active. So, to help spread the awareness, have a very personal guide to approach the scholarship and also to make this process a bit fun and tech savvy, I built Venky's Help.
Venky's Help is a chatbot students can talk to, to clear their doubts or learn how to approach the application questions in the best possible manner.
The current version of this bot will work on Google Assistant. The bot is available to download and use.
Do try out the Google Assistant and leave a review if you feel it performs well!
Please do note that this is the first version of the assistant and so it can only answer few questions. To know the full list of topics the assistant can speak about, checkout the conversation flow.
The assistant is just learning to answer these questions so please remember to be gentle on it. This aside, I'm sure you'll have a great experience interacting with it. Venky is fun!
I highly value your appreciation and feedback. Do let me know what you think about the assistant and help me improve it!
Himabindu is a final year Computer Science student at SCT, Trivandrum. She is a WeTech Qualcomm Global Scholar and a Richard E Merwin scholar.
Hima is a data science enthusiast and also the founder and ambassador of various techno-social programs.
I'd love to speak with you. If you wish to get in touch , this is where you can write to me.
himabindubhardwaj@gmail.com