To celebrate the 4th of July, I teamed up with Batavia High School students to create a chatbot for Batavia city meetings, indexing over 150,000 words from 17 hours of meetings to provide instant summaries and detailed information on any topic, alongside engaging School Council members to create monthly summary videos, enhancing public engagement and self-governance in Batavia.

In working on a volunteer project for a chatbot for Batavia city meetings, I indexed over 150,000 words and focused on prompt engineering by refining prompts through iterative feedback to improve summaries and information retrieval, ultimately discovering the importance of human input in selecting key topics for accurate and useful outputs, which will be used by interns to create concise and informative 60 to 90-second meeting summaries.

Written from a custom chatbot we created, Tess, a Batavia High School Student Council member delivers a 90 second summary of the lastest city council meeting.