Eventuary

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  home page, personalized recommendations

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  see all events, search for them

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  add to calendar

Inspiration

We want to make the most out of every moment during our undergraduate studies by attending the many extra-curricular events that our school has to offer. However, our school lacks a centralized platform with up-to-date event postings tailored to our interests, leaving many students in the dark about events that could offer them personal and professional growth. We want to bring together the information from multiple university pages onto a centralized platform to enable students to stay up to date with the events that interest them.

What it does

We offer a personalized web experience that gives you recommendations based on your interests and receive updated events matching your interests and career goals. We use an intelligent algorithm that learns more about them based on their attendance of prior events.

How we built it

We have an end-to-end solution fully powered by AWS to have the best scalability and reliance. Some services used are Lambda, Bedrock, DynamoDB, Cognito, and more.

Challenges we ran into

This was the first time we used AWS to build out a fully functional application. With so many different services and architecture patterns to consider, we got stuck in analysis paralysis in the beginning. Additionally, we ran into minor technical issues when we were debugging the lambda functions and trying to understand why our lambda functions weren't working. Additionally, we were struggling to figure out why our Bedrock model wasn't being invoked, we used up a lot of time waiting for Kendra to provide output only to realize it didn't scrape the websites like we wanted to. GCP also gave us issues.

Accomplishments that we're proud of, what we learned

We all learned a lot from this experience and are comfortable setting up databases, setting up lamba functions, and debugging output using Cloudwatch logs. We also used Eventbridge to schedule out lambda functions. The frontend was kind of cool as well.

What's next for Eventuary

Big things coming! Eventuary is built by students, for students.

Built With

• amazon-web-services
• javascript
• next.js
• react
• tailwind