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    <p>Hi Yedian,</p>
    <p>I think this is off to a good start.</p>
    <p>I added comments to the Google Doc.<br>
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    <p>Best,<br>
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    <p>Devin<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Yedian Cheng:<br>
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        <p class="gmail-">Dear Mentors,</p>
        <p class="gmail-">I hope you are doing well. My name is <strong>Yedian
            Cheng</strong>, and I’m submitting a proposal for <strong>Google
            Summer of Code 2025</strong>, titled:</p>
        <p class="gmail-"><b>“Refactor the chatbot in the Speak Activity
            to use gen-AI”</b></p>
        <p class="gmail-">I have already submitted my proposal to the
          GSoC dashboard, but I’m attaching my proposal in PDF format
          and also included this <a
href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RPzGsFc0bhN_xBdZUKVw6lolq73htdPo6XBXdMXrqfw/edit?usp=sharing"
            moz-do-not-send="true">Google Docs link</a> for your
          convenience and would sincerely appreciate any feedback or
          suggestions.</p>
        <p class="gmail-">To prepare, I’ve:</p>
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            <p class="gmail-">Set up a complete Sugar development
              environment (Fedora-based VM)</p>
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            <p class="gmail-">Run and modified the Speak Activity
              locally</p>
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          <li class="gmail-">
            <p class="gmail-">Submitted a pull request (<a
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                href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/speak/pull/38"
                moz-do-not-send="true">PR #38</a>) that adds a mock <code>get_llm_response()</code>
              function</p>
          </li>
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            <p class="gmail-">Recorded a short <a rel="noopener"
                class="gmail-"
                href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mubSEPcv1k"
                moz-do-not-send="true">demo video</a> to showcase the
              mock response integration</p>
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        </ul>
        <p class="gmail-">This proposal builds on that work and
          introduces LLM-based chat features, invented spelling
          correction, and expressive personas to make Speak more
          interactive and engaging for young learners.</p>
        <p class="gmail-">Thank you so much for your time and support —
          I’m looking forward to your feedback!</p>
        <p class="gmail-">Warm regards,<br>
          Yedian Cheng</p>
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