Building Bear
Escape in 24 Hours
How we built a TypeScript rhythm game that won Best Design and Best Use of Gemini API at Cornell’s Big Red Hacks 2025 — from blank canvas to working demo overnight.
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What 8 Hackathons
Taught Me
Speed, scope, and shipping. After competing at Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, UMD, and beyond, here’s what I actually learned about building under pressure.
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The LakerHacks
Origin Story
How a group of students at SUNY Oswego went from “we should host a hackathon” to 75 attendees, MLH consideration, and a community that keeps growing.
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Rhythm + CV:
How BeatBoxing Works
A deep dive into the computer vision pipeline, chart parsing, and Web Audio API timing that powers our HopHacks 2025 3rd-place project — built in 36 hours.
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Angular & Compliance:
My Summer at Sicura
What I learned building front-end tooling for CIS Benchmark compliance automation — and why shipping real software to real users is the best education.
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Why Interaction Design
Changed My Code
Studying HCI didn’t just teach me to make better UIs — it rewired how I think about systems, users, and what “good software” even means.
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