🚀 1st Place Winner — Google APAC Hackathon Padayon Ko — AI for Impact '24

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🚀 1st Place Winner — Global AI for Impact Hackathon
🎓 From Times Square to Transforming Access to Education in the Philippines

Why did Webflow feature a teenager from the Philippines on the biggest billboard in Times Square? Here’s the story.

In this award-winning pitch, Carl Vincent Kho shares the journey behind Padayenko — a grassroots platform turned AI-powered ecosystem that democratizes access to global and local scholarships for Filipino students. Built using Notion API, Google Gemini, Facebook Graph API, and Cloud Run, Padayenko helps under-resourced youth craft powerful scholarship applications through intelligent matching, auto-generated essays, and voice-first interfaces in Tagalog, Bisaya, and English.

💡 Features demonstrated:
• Profile-based AI scholarship matching (Gemini + Embeddings)
• Multilingual voice UI powered by Google’s Chirp
• AI-generated elevator pitches and essays with tone preservation
• SAT-style bots customized to students’ interests
• Automated Facebook scholarship postings via Notion sync
• Impact projection: 10.3M Filipino students reachable

🌍 Built for the next generation of Filipino scholars — starting with one student who couldn’t afford the IELTS fee.

👉 Watch this full demo and pitch Q&A to see how AI can flip the script on global opportunity.

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