franciskwarteng677/OpportunityMap

A scholarship and opportunity discovery platform helping Ghanaian and African students find verified scholarships, competitions, fellowships, research programmes, summer programmes, and internships. # OpportunityMap AI Coach OpportunityMap AI Coach is a static, privacy-conscious opportunity discovery and application-planning tool for Ghanaian and African students. It brings scholarships, competitions, fellowships, research programmes, summer programmes, internships, and other academic pathways into one searchable directory, then adds transparent browser-side personalisation and progress tracking. > **OpenAI Build Week track:** Education > > **Public demo:** opportunitymap-gh.vercel.app The application remains intentionally framework-free, with no backend, database, account system, cloud synchronization, or runtime API integration. Students can always browse the full directory without creating a profile. ## The problem Talented students regularly miss valuable opportunities because information is fragmented across university pages, foundation websites, social posts, and informal networks. Even after finding a programme, a student may still need to work out whether it is relevant to their location, stage of study, field, and timeline. This is partly an educational equity problem: access to opportunity often depends on access to timely, well-organised information. ## Intended users The primary users are secondary-school, undergraduate, postgraduate, and early-career students in Ghana and across Africa who need a clearer way to discover opportunities, assess possible fit, and organize application preparation. The directory also remains useful to educators, advisers, and mentors helping students locate trustworthy official sources. ## The solution OpportunityMap offers one clear place to: - discover different types of academic and career-building opportunities; - search across titles, locations, eligibility, fields, and descriptions; - narrow results by category, country or reach, field of study, and deadline status; - understand key details before investing time in an application; and - continue to the official programme source for current requirements a …