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Wayfinder Academy: Redefining Digital Transformation in Magical Education

In an ever-evolving world where magic and technology coexist, Wayfinder Academy and its Logiquill portal represent the forefront of digital transformation within the magical education sector. By seamlessly integrating intelligent automation, data-driven insights, and a personalized approach to student guidance, we’ve set a new standard for how magical institutions can enhance their operations while meeting the expectations of the modern student.

A Magical Solution for Dynamic Needs

The mission of Wayfinder Academy is clear: to ensure that every magical student finds an environment that nurtures their unique talents, temperament, and aspirations. Our innovative processes are built on the belief that students thrive when matched with the right school, and we’ve developed a groundbreaking redundancy plan to ensure this mission continues uninterrupted—even under the most unexpected circumstances.

A turning point in Hogwarts’ history came when the Sorting Hat was temporarily stolen during a sorting ceremony, leaving the school in disarray.

This incident underscored the need for a robust, adaptable system that could provide an alternative for sorting and student reassignment. Enter the Wayfinder Academy, with its Logiquill portal: a solution that combines magical precision with technological advancements to guide students toward their ideal paths.

Intelligent Automation: A Transformative Approach

Our process begins with the student’s application submission via the Logiquill portal. From the moment the application is received, intelligent automation takes center stage:

  1. Data Collection: Students upload memorable photos and historical records are requested from their current school. These data points form the foundation of our analysis.
  2. AI-Driven Interviews: Each student participates in a digital interview with a virtual “digital twin” of one of our esteemed teachers. During this session, a pulsometer captures emotional responses and stress metrics, creating a comprehensive profile.
  3. Real-Time Analysis: Emotional and physiological data, along with responses, are stored in our dataverse. Advanced algorithms interpret these inputs to assign attributes and recommend the best faculty placement.
  4. Personalized Results: Students receive an animated, interactive experience—an owl delivers their results, followed by a magical feather writing their new faculty assignment. They also gain access to detailed reasoning and insights through the portal.
Meeting Expectations with Seamless Integration

The Logiquill portal is more than a sorting tool—it’s a hub for continuous support and engagement. Students are offered a personalized coaching program, featuring:

  • Monthly Letters: Tailored tips for successful integration into their new faculty.
  • Virtual Mentorship: Access to digital twins of professors who provide one-on-one guidance.
  • Interactive Forums: A space for students to connect, share ideas, and discuss events.

Our platform’s capabilities extend beyond sorting and mentorship. By linking Meta, LinkedIn, and Instagram accounts, the portal analyzes social engagement to generate actionable insights, track progress, and enhance the overall experience.

Delivering More with Less Through Innovation

The Wayfinder Academy exemplifies how magical institutions can deliver exceptional experiences while maximizing efficiency. Our approach achieves this by:

  • Reducing Manual Effort: Automated processes streamline application review, data analysis, and faculty recommendations.
  • Enhancing Personalization: AI and real-time data ensure every student receives individualized guidance tailored to their needs.
  • Driving Continuous Improvement: Insights derived from forum discussions and social media analysis enable proactive support and dynamic enhancements to our services.
A Bridge Between Expectation and Capability

The integration of intelligent automation into magical education through the Wayfinder Academy and Logiquill portal is a testament to the potential of digital transformation. By weaving a spell that bridges the gap between customer expectations and operational capabilities, we’ve created a solution that empowers students and institutions alike.

Wayfinder Academy is not just reshaping how magical students find their paths—it’s setting a new precedent for innovation, personalization, and efficiency in education. With every detail meticulously designed, we’re proud to demonstrate how businesses can achieve more with less while delivering unparalleled experiences to their communities.

We love existential risks!

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The existential risk is real! As Slytherins there is nothing we would love more than a bit of chaos. So of course we take all risks and use AI!

We use Azure service APIs for both prompting and text-too-speech combined with pro-code run in our Python Flask app:

The chat completion prompt goes as follow:

You are an assistant that helps transform a text to a specific tone of voice.
It is supposed to be a letter read out loud.
Start with greeting the recipient and end with goodbye from the sender.
If appropriate, add references to the Harry Potter universe.
Keep it short.

This prompts adds a dazzle of Hogwarts magic to each message;

Original message:
I don’t like you anymore. You have proven to be untrustful!

Magically transformed message:
Oh, how the tides have turned! I find myself in a whirlwind of emotions, and I must confess, I don’t like you anymore. Your betrayal stings like a Cruciatus curse, and it’s clear you’ve proven to be utterly untrustworthy!

After obtaining the magically bedazzled message, we run text-to-speech from Speech Services to magically transform the written message to speech in your preferred tone:

More is Less. Effective work with Feature rich Logiquill Portal

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We hope you liked our Logiquill platform we demonstrated to you yesterday. With it, we really enable our Wayfinder academy employees to manage their work in more effective way, reducing operational stuff, manual work and all of it – by use of the technologies we describe below. Hence by saving time on those time consuming processes, they can allocate it to the more meaningful and strategic tasks. This is what we call Digital transformation.

At this portal, in the Admin view, we have features like (as displayed on the screenshot below):

  • Digital Twins of our judges (mentors), generated by AI, and connected to the database which has the custom survey tailored to guide the student thru questions, that helps to identify their values, aspirations, reactions to stress, etc.
  • Heart rate readings which is a real time data, coming from the Pulsoxymeter device.
  • Emotion recognition via the third party solution (more about this you can read here Unveiling Hidden Feelings with the Magic of AI | Arctic Cloud Developer Challenge Submissions)
  • Speech to text for the response on the survey.

With all this Digital Transformation, do you feel this Existential Risk?

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Or maybe, our honorable jury feels like its a good idea delegating some work in the hackaton to their Digital Twins and free up some time for “Me time”? Well, we thought about this already, as in our Wayfinder Academy, we really needed you to help us in interviewing students that send us their applications to get help on defining the faculties they truly belong to. So, given how busy you are, we used Elai.IO to generate videos that visualize you running an interview.

It went so well, that we went further to implement Copilot Agents (WE LOVE THEM!!!) so that they, fed by the data related to you and available, will provide real time experience for the students going thru the interview or getting some mentorship as if they are talking to you and not your digital twin.

Are you excited to see it?

Below is the view we have when the interview is running, where you see both the video, and some other data (described here Magic Sensors: the enchanted Howlers of the tech world—they always tell you what’s wrong, loudly and repeatedly. | Arctic Cloud Developer Challenge Submissions)



And below is the students view, isn’t it beautiful?

Power BI alerts to warm you up!

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Faruk the Fabricator who travelled all the way from sunny Istanbul, got really frozen outdoors. So he came back unusually alerted and went straight into work, to warm up.

Data activators is up. When failure is close, our Fabricator will know.

An alert has been set for the KPI column. When it falls below a certain value we send an email and alert the user.

More will come with table based data activators. This is just the beginning.

Faruk the Fabricator is just warming up…

PS: we claimm PlugNPlay badge for the sending notifications to TEAMS

Low body temperature and Low Code: Dataverse + Model-driven app

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Keeping up with our Low code focus, even after the outdoor activity which rushed our metabolism to its highest level! It feels GRRRRREAT!!!! Thanks for arranging this.

We are building a backend for the academy administrators  using Dataverse and Model driven application.

  • Streamline Customization: Tailor forms, views, and processes to specific roles, ensuring academy administrators have access to the exact tools they need without overloading the interface.
  • Reduce Development Time: Focus on delivering business value rather than spending weeks coding. The drag-and-drop interface and prebuilt templates save hours of manual work.
  • Enable Scalability: Easily adapt to growing needs, whether adding new survey question categories or introducing workflows to automate survey evaluations.
  • Boost Collaboration: Team members with varying technical expertise can collaborate effectively, bridging the gap between IT and business teams.

The dataverse allows us easily set up the data model for Survey Questions for students:

We are using the power of the Model-driven apps to easily create a back office to easily set up which forms and views are accessible for our academy administrators:

Magic Sensors: the enchanted Howlers of the tech world—they always tell you what’s wrong, loudly and repeatedly.

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In a previous article, we mentioned that our Logiquill platform aims to help students unleash their potential using insightful information from their background, current aspirations and vision on the future. This type of data gives us the opportunity to build preliminary suggestions, but how can we make it more precise? 

For our creative minds, the first and obvious idea was to use wearable devices like smart rings and smartwatches to catch the physical metrics during the review sessions

Which metrics are available to fetch from the wearable devices? 

  • Daily physical activity (Sleep quality, number of steps, etc… ) 
  • Bio: Heart Rate, EKG, Blood pressure, Oxygenation,   Let me add a few details regarding Bluetooth devices: 

To demonstrate that type of integration during the event, we used a portable Pulse Oximeter to capture real-time health data )come and try it out by the way :)) 

This device has a built-in Bluetooth interface that exposes all available sensors, such as isFIngerExists, isCalibrated, BPM, Oxygenation, and Pleth. So, we can use HTML 5 API to make it work with our portal app to capture the health data during the students’ review session. The device uses the BCI protocol: 

Let us add a few details regarding Bluetooth devices: 

According to the specifications of the Bluetooth, each device must implement at least one service (Audio, UART, MediaPlayer Control, etc.). Each service can have its characteristics (Volume, Speed, weight, etc..). 

In our case, the Pulse Oximeter device has Service ID: 49535343-fe7d-4ae5-8fa9-9fafd205e455 and characteristic ID: 49535343-1e4d-4bd9-ba61-23c647249616. Here is an example of the JS code how to parse the Bluetooth packet: 

The final result looks like this and we are loving it! We hope you too 🙂  

Bonus to ALM Magic, Digital Transformation and Low Code!

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Kudos to one of our judges @benedikt bergmann for all the work shared at GitHub. We strongly recommend all fellow magic makers here to check it out GitHub – BenediktBergmann/PCFIntro Will it be too much to say, we really want to win a book about Application Lifecycle Management on Microsoft Power Platform?

We also released the PowerPlatform custom connector. That is available in our GitHub repo. The repository also includes GitHub pipeline implementation to release the fresh version of the connector. 

So, you can now use the connector to process the emotional recognition reports by uploading the prepared dataset to SharePoint and notifying the Admin that the artifact is available.

The repo structure is simple enough. 

The repo also contains the release pipelines based on the GitHub actions. 

How to build a new release? 

Follow these steps to manually create a new release on GitHub: 

  1. Create a New Tag: Use the naming convention v.x.x.x.x, where x is a digit. For example: v.1.0.0.0 
  1. Generate Artifacts: Ensure that the artifact name is automatically derived from package/Other/Solution.xml using the UniqueName attribute. 
  1. Update Documentation: Make sure all relevant documentation is up-to-date with the new release details. 
  1. Publish the Release: On GitHub, draft a new release, add the appropriate tag, and upload the managed and unmanaged solution files. 

Artifacts 

Artifacts generated during the release process include two types of solutions: 

  • Managed: This contains the finalized version of the connector, which is ready for deployment. It ensures that all customizations are locked and can be used in production environments. 
  • Unmanaged: This includes the editable version of the connector for further development and customization. It is ideal for testing and development environments. 

“The fabric doesn’t call me anything. He grimly does his work, then he sits motionless until it’s time to work again. We could all take a page from his book”

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(c) The Fabricator and the Silicon Valley series.

(c) Faruk The Fabricator inspired by the Silicon Valley series.

If you think a student’s story begins when they enroll at Hogwarts, you could not be more wrong.
The Fabricator is evil and does not care about privacy. The Fabricator is guileful and does not care about truth. He will do everything in his power to gather or fabricate every detail of their lives  and use it to achieve his goals.

At the moment,
The Fabricator uses Fabric to access previous data of the students wishing to enroll at Hogwarts.
We call the Kaggle API within notebook code to retrieve data from Kaggle and write it as a CSV file.

Python code in another notebook is then used to transform this data and divide it into clusters.


Finally, a “Copy Data” activity moves the data to its final destination. But is this truly the end?

Follow the Fabricator for more—if you can, that is.

In the coming days, the Fabricator plans to:

  • Show clustered data in Power BI reports.
  • Use insights to plan interventions or recommendations for students.
  • Perform behavioral predictions: Use the clusters as labels for supervised learning models to predict future performance.
  • Trigger emails or alerts for specific clusters needing attention.

Data is born into Fabric, molded by it. Data does not see the light until it is ready to face users. And when it is finally presented, it is blinding.

(c) The Fabricator and The Batman.

PS: with this article we claim the following badges:

Thieving Bastards – we use online data source from kaggle

Dataminer – we are doing data transformation for better reporting and we are using extrernal data.

Go With The Flow – we create the pipeline that can be used to retrive any data from kaggle. We plan to use data activators to send alerts based on the processed data.

Power User Love – in fabric we created pipeline as a low code solution. inside pipeline we are using python code for advanced operations.