During my Junior year at UT Dallas, I had the wonderful opportunity to be a part of something bigger than myself. With that being said, I enrolled in a course called EPICS or "Engineering Projects in Community Service." EPICS is a semester-long service learning program that lets students work on real problems while addressing the needs within the local or global community. Through this program, non-profit organizations partner with a team of UT Dallas students receive the technical expertise they need to solve a problem that greatly benefits the community.

My team, comprised of Dhruv Tripathi, Jahnzeb Bastaki, Megha Nettem, Daniel Nguyen, and Surya Mallidi landed on the behemoth project known only as the Soccer Robot. We were not coding the robot itself, but instead, the website that the robots would be playing soccer against each other.

Over the whole semester, my teammates and I bonded, learned, and developed into a productive unmatched coding machine. We split the team up into three separate teams. Two on front-end (me included), two on back-end, and two full stack developers. We had some bumps in the road when coding this website with its full functionality, but the end product is something that we never could've imagined.

Our team successfully coded a working database with a log-in and sign up system, a working queue system, a scoreboard to actively keep a record of the game, and a fully functional live steam of the robots clashing themselves. This project taught all of us how to collaborate and work efficiently as a team together, as well as giving us the confidence that we produced such complex software. The final product of our creation is in a slideshow to the right side, along with many pictures from the whole experience. Finally, below is the link to our public GitHub repository