Inspiration
Imagine if you were taking a survey to find out who the most commonly known figures in multiple fields. The first question you, and many other of the takers of the survey were asked was who comes to mind when one thinks of a famous scientist. The next question you were asked was the first person that comes to mind when they were asked about a famous artist. The final question you were asked was who comes to mind when you think of a famous activist. Many of the survey takers put answers along the lines of Albert Einstein for a famous scientist, Martin Luther King Jr. or maybe Frederick Douglass for a famous activist, and Leonardo da Vinci or Pablo Picasso as a famous artist. These are all valid answers as each of these figures are renowned in their fields for their multiple famous works, accomplishments, and/or good deeds. However, there is one commonality all these figures share...they are all men.
Women make up 50% of the US population however, only eleven percent of stories in History Textbooks are about women. Though women had made many contributions in every field, and their groundbreaking discoveries, various artwork, literary pieces, ingenious inventions, and major roles in many rights movements throughout the centuries, they remain largely unrecognized for their numerous and invaluable achievements.
What it does
Our project MY SHERO provides young girls the opportunity to interact with a legendary role model in a field of their choice. We present SHEROES in the field of Science, Technology, Arts, Writing, and Activism.
We have provided a link for our website in our devpost submission. If you click this link, it will lead you to our homepage, which presents you with two options. The first option allows users to find a SHERO based on their interests, and the second option allows users to view a gallery of all our SHEROES.
If the user presses the first button, it will take you to the Find My SHERO page where the user can pick an area of interest. We have STEM, art, and activism as options. If the user selects stem, we present the user with science and technology as primary topics of interest. If the user selects art, we present the user with literature and painting activism as primary topics of interest. If the user selects activism, we present the user with gender rights activism and racial rights activism as primary topics of interest. Each of the six sub-options is linked to a SHERO who specializes in the sub option’s field. For example, if the user selects science, it will direct you to our SHERO in science, Marie Curie. In our SHEROES page, the user can see a carousel of rotating cards, a picture of the SHERO, and a chatbot. In the card carousel, the SHERO narrates the story of her early life, her contributions to humanity, her achievements, and the many challenges she faced.
Using the chatbot, the user can also have a conversation with the SHERO about how she felt on her journey to becoming one of the greatest scientists of all time. These questions include how The SHERO felt when her efforts were not recognized because she was a woman, what made the SHERO pursue her dreams regardless of the situation she was in, and if she ever feel like giving up her passion due to the harsh criticism of others.
From our Home Page, the second button “Meet the SHEROES” will take the user to a gallery of all our SHEROES. Clicking on the image of the SHEROES will take the user to their respective page.
How we built it
We built our website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and hosted it in the Qoom platform. We created our chatbots using IBM’s Watson Assistant. We researched data from several sources on each of our SHEROES. The sources are listed in the citations section below. We created our logo as well as the images of each SHERO on Canva.
Challenges we ran into
We had difficulty trying to get our carousel of cards for each SHERO to work, as well as trying to get our website up and running due to trying to integrate our chatbots to our website.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Accomplishments we are proud of include creating our own website for the first time using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, as well as creating chatbots that convey the journey of our SHEROES on their path to achieving their dreams.
What we learned
We learned how to create a website using HTML, CSS, and Javascript, as well as how to implement our websites using Qoom rather than keeping them locally on our computer. We also learned how to embed our chatbots in their respective pages on our website. Through our collection of data about our SHEROES and statistics about the number of women portrayed throughout history, we learned how important it was to be able to teach children, especially young girls, about the many heroines who preceded them, their messages to the future generation, and the importance of their hard work and effort in their respective fields.
What's next for Software Giants - MY SHERO
We would like to add more fields such as sports and entertainment to recognize female pioneers in those fields as well. We would also like to add more SHEROES to each field, Arts, Activism, and STEM, to celebrate the works of those whose paths we would like to follow.
Citations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1903/marie-curie/biographical/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-Curie https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/madame-curies-passion-74183598/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper https://news.yale.edu/2017/02/10/grace-murray-hopper-1906-1992-legacy-innovation-and-service https://www.biography.com/scientist/grace-hopper https://www.mayaangelou.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou https://www.biography.com/writer/maya-angelou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo https://www.fridakahlo.org/ https://www.frida-kahlo-foundation.org/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/frida-kahlo-70745811/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographyginsburg.aspx https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/ruth-bader-ginsburg https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ruth-Bader-Ginsburg https://www.npr.org/2009/03/15/101719889/before-rosa-parks-there-was-claudette-colvin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Colvin https://www.biography.com/news/claudette-colvin-rosa-parks-bus-boycott https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/claudette-colvin-twice-toward-justice/ https://www.ibm.com/cloud/watson-assistant
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