AWS Gamebuilder Hackathon Winner

Hackathon Winner:

Our student team of 6 won honorable mention out of 3800+ participants, most of whom are industry professionals, winning a cash prize of 5k! This hackathon is a month long hackathon hosted by AWS!

Synopsis: 

Learn languages with PolyPal! Chat with an AI cat-themed language tutor, earn points for practice, and customize your cat avatar. It's fun, interactive, and purr-fect for mastering new languages!

Contribution

• Led a team of 6 in a month-long hackathon as technical lead, coordinating efforts to deliver a production-ready AI language tutor

• Implemented AWS integration, leveraging Bedrock for language model hosting, DynamoDB for efficient data retrieval, and S3 for scalable media storage

• Developed full-stack solutions and designed a scalable shop system with dynamic Next.js routes for fetching inventory and images from DynamoDB and S3