Berea Stars

Summary: Our teams' collaboration happened during the first Berea College hack-a-thon, hosted April 2026 by the Black Student Union. It including detailed front-end planning, Web Application to Android Mobile development, debugging, and post-event reflection.

Abdou L. Diop initiated planning, sharing notes from a workshop (vibe coding tools like V0 and Lovable, PRDs, UML, and presentation tips). The group exchanged logistics (location/room), rubrics, collaboration documents, repositories, and relevant links (Devpost, GitHub, V0, Supabase). A. M. shared prior hackathon experience and, encourage the whiteboard design of the applications front-end interface, and worked heavily on back-end logic. This was Nancy O. Tijani's first Freshman year Hack-a-thon, as she and Abdou focused heavily on front-end and authentication/database integration issues. While the team did not win the hackathon, the experience showed the value of collaboration, and supported learning of both front-end and back-end systems.

Key Issues:

• Creating and troubleshooting database tables (e.g., accounts, posts).
• Handling authentication issues (signup/login failures).
• Implementing triggers/functions to sync auth.users with public.accounts.
• Managing environment variables and API keys.
• Android Mobile Application development.
• An emphasis on the need for critical back-ups when features actually do work, via GitHub.

Built With

• android-studio
• copilot
• prds
• supabase
• v0