First-Year AI-ML Student Builds Three Hackathon Projects in Months

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A first-year B.Tech CSE (AI-ML) student at Yenepoya School of Engineering & Technology in Bengaluru has completed three hackathon projects within a few months of starting college. The student, enrolled in the Kalvium program, built DayFlow, an HRM system for the Odoo × NMIT Hackathon, and L.A.S.A., a local AI smartphone assistant for the iQOO × ReSkill Hackathon. A third project, RepoXray, was a codebase analyzer developed for the Zero Dependency Hackathon using only Python's standard library and no third-party packages. The student is currently participating in two additional competitions, including PromptWars and an AI Innovation Hackathon with a six-member team. Writing their first post on DEV Community, they described hackathons as one of the fastest ways to turn ideas into working software.

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