🎓 ACE — AllCollegeEvent

Discover, Connect, and Compete Across Every Campus

ACE is an AI-powered college event discovery and innovation platform built for students, faculty, and entrepreneurs. From hackathons and cultural fests to research workshops and startup pitches — ACE is the single hub where campus life meets opportunity.

🌐 Live Demo · 📖 Docs · 🐛 Report Bug · ✨ Request Feature

🚀 About the Project

AllCollegeEvent (ACE) was born from a simple but persistent problem: college students across India miss out on life-changing opportunities — hackathons, research fests, innovation challenges, cultural fests — simply because there is no unified, intelligent platform to discover them.

ACE solves this by combining a rich event catalogue with AI-driven personalization, competitive tools, and a career intelligence engine — all in one seamless web experience.

Built under ECLearnix Edtech Pvt. Ltd. and developed by Team NOVACORE, ACE targets the 40M+ college students in India who currently rely on fragmented WhatsApp forwards, noticeboard posters, and word-of-mouth to find events worth attending.

The Problem We're Solving

Pain Point	How ACE Solves It
Events discovered too late	Real-time listings with deadline alerts
No personalization	AI Career DNA analyzer matches events to your profile
Scattered hackathon info	Dedicated Hackathon War Room with team-formation tools
No innovation recognition	Innovation Arena for project pitching and community voting
Study resources siloed	Integrated Study Hub with curated content per domain
No single student identity	Role-based profiles for Student, Faculty, and Organizer

✨ Core Features

🔍 Event Discovery Engine

Smart Search & Filter — Filter by category (Tech, Cultural, Sports, Research, Entrepreneurship), date, college, fee, and mode (online/offline)
Bookmarking System — Save events with one click; receive reminders as deadlines approach
Event Detail Pages — Full breakdowns with eligibility, prizes, registration links, and countdown timer
Sort & Rank — Sort by popularity, deadline urgency, relevance to your Career DNA, or campus proximity

🧬 Career DNA Analyzer

AI module that profiles students based on skills, past participation, academic stream, and goals
Generates a personalized Career DNA string (e.g., ML-Engineer | IoT-Builder | Research-Oriented)
Recommends the top 5 events each week that directly match the student's DNA
Tracks evolution of Career DNA over time as more events are attended

🏆 Hackathon War Room

Centralized hub for all active and upcoming hackathons — national, international, and campus-level
Team Formation Board — Post team requirements, find co-founders, or join incomplete teams
Submission Tracker — Track your team's submission status, round results, and feedback
Problem Statement Library — Browse past hackathon problems by domain to practice and prepare
Leaderboard of top-performing student teams across campuses

💡 Innovation Arena

Platform for students to pitch project ideas publicly
Community Voting — Peers, faculty, and industry mentors can upvote, comment, and endorse projects
Prototype Showcase — Upload demo videos, GitHub links, pitch decks, and architecture diagrams
Monthly featured innovation spotlights published on the platform blog

📚 Study Hub

Curated YouTube playlists, NPTEL lectures, and open-access resources organized by engineering domain
Domain Channels — ECE, CSE, Mechanical, Civil, BioTech, and Management
Exam Corner — GATE, GRE, and placement preparation resources linked directly
Bookmarkable resources synced with student profile

🤖 Zuzu — AI Event Assistant

Conversational chatbot for natural-language event search
Ask Zuzu: "Find me free ML hackathons happening in Chennai next month"
Cross-references Career DNA for sharper recommendations
Available 24/7 via floating chat widget on every page

👤 Role-Based Authentication

Student — Discover, register, track, and compete
Faculty — Post departmental events, track student participation, endorse projects
Organizer — Create listings, manage registrations, access analytics dashboards

🖥️ Platform Screens

ACE is a multi-page Single Page Application (SPA) with click-navigated distinct screens:

Screen	Path	Description
Landing Page	`/`	Hero with animated background, value proposition, CTA
Login / Register	`/login`	Role-based auth with animated vortex background
Welcome	`/welcome`	Personalized greeting with Career DNA preview
Discover	`/discover`	Main event feed with search, filter, sort, bookmark
Event Detail	`/event/:id`	Full event info, registration panel, countdown
Career DNA	`/career-dna`	AI analyzer with profile radar chart
Hackathon War Room	`/hackathons`	Hackathon hub with team formation board
Innovation Arena	`/innovation`	Project pitch and community voting feed
Study Hub	`/study`	Curated learning resources by domain
Profile	`/profile`	Student dashboard with activity, bookmarks, DNA

🛠️ Tech Stack

Frontend

React — Component-based SPA architecture with hook-based state management
Tailwind CSS — Utility-first styling for responsive, consistent UI
Custom SVG Charts — Lightweight data visualizations without heavy chart libraries
CSS Variables — Theming engine supporting dark/light mode switching
Canvas API — Ambient particle and aurora background effects

Design System

Typography — Instrument Serif (display) + JetBrains Mono (code/labels)
Palette — Deep navy #0f172a base · Coral #f43f5e · Mint #10b981 accents · Glassmorphism surfaces
Motion — Curtain fade transitions, breathing animations, micro-interactions on all interactive elements

Backend (Planned)

Node.js + Express — REST API for event CRUD, user auth, and recommendations
MongoDB — Flexible document store for events, user profiles, and engagement logs
JWT Authentication — Stateless, role-based auth tokens

AI / ML Layer (Research Phase)

Career DNA Engine — K-Means + PCA clustering on student interaction vectors
Recommendation Engine — Hybrid KNN + NMF + Neural Network collaborative filtering
Engagement Predictor — Random Forest binary classifier for feed ranking

🧠 AI & ML Capabilities

Career DNA Engine

Students are described by six interaction features (category preference shares, bookmark rate, events browsed, engagement rate, average lead time, same-college preference share). Features are standard-scaled and reduced via PCA before K-Means clustering produces career archetypes refreshed monthly.

Recommendation System

A hybrid pipeline tested across three models:

KNN Collaborative Filtering — Finds peers with similar event engagement patterns
NMF Matrix Factorization — Decomposes the student-event interaction matrix into latent factors
Neural Network Recommender — Embedding-based deep recommender trained on interaction history

Engagement Prediction

Supervised binary classifier predicting Engaged = 1 before recommendations are served. Features include event category, days until event, bookmark status, and historical engagement rate. Random Forest achieved AUC > 0.83 on held-out data.

🏗️ Architecture

──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ACE Frontend (React SPA) │ │ Landing → Login → Welcome → Discover → Detail │ │ Career DNA | Hackathon War Room | Innovation Arena │ │ Study Hub | Profile Dashboard | Zuzu Chatbot │ └───────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘ │ REST API (JSON) ┌───────────────────▼──────────────────────────────────┐ │ ACE Backend (Node.js + Express) │ │ Auth Service │ Event Service │ User Service │ │ Recommendation Service │ Analytics Service │ └───────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘ │ ┌───────────▼───────────┐ │ MongoDB Atlas │ │ Events │ Users │ Logs│ └───────────┬───────────┘ │ ┌───────────▼────────────────────┐ │ Python ML Microservice │ │ Career DNA | Recommender │ │ Engagement Predictor | NLP │ └────────────────────────────────┘ MIT License

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

⚙️ Getting Started

Prerequisites

Node.js ≥ 18.x
npm ≥ 9.x
Git

Installation

# 1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/AllCollegeEvent.git
cd AllCollegeEvent

# 2. Install dependencies
cd frontend
npm install

# 3. Start development server
npm run dev

App runs at http://localhost:5173

Environment Variables

Create .env in /frontend:

VITE_API_BASE_URL=http://localhost:3000/api
VITE_ZUZU_API_KEY=your_ai_key_here

🗺️ Roadmap

🤝 Contributing

Fork the repository
Create your feature branch: git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature
Commit your changes: git commit -m 'Add AmazingFeature'
Push to the branch: git push origin feature/AmazingFeature
Open a Pull Request

Good First Issues

Improving mobile responsiveness on the Discover page
Adding more event categories to the filter sidebar
Writing unit tests for the Career DNA data layer
Improving Zuzu's response templates for edge-case queries

👥 Team

Team NOVACORE — Built under ECLearnix Edtech Pvt. Ltd.

Role	Contribution
Platform Architect & Lead Developer	Frontend SPA, AI/ML integration, system design
ECLearnix Edtech Pvt. Ltd.	Product vision, institutional partnerships, infrastructure

ACE was shortlisted for the Hackathon 360 4.0 Innovation Challenge (EdTech domain) and is under active incubation at ECLearnix.

🙏 Acknowledgements

React — UI library
Tailwind CSS — Utility-first CSS framework
Google Fonts — Instrument Serif & JetBrains Mono
shields.io — Badge generation
Every college student in India whose missed opportunity made ACE necessary

Built with purpose by Team NOVACORE | ECLearnix Edtech Pvt. Ltd.

"Every opportunity you miss is one you didn't know about. ACE fixes that."

⭐ Star this repo if ACE helped you find your next big opportunity!

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