The LMCC alumni portal is a full stack application created during the Code for Good hackathon for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, an organization supporting emerging artists. The portal was designed to connect LMCC alumni and thus features customizable user profiles, a social media feed, artist matching via a machine learning model, a job board, and an events directory. It was built with a Next.js and Tailwind CSS frontend, Node.js backend, and a Firebase database.

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Etch-A-Sketch is a browser-based drawing program inspired by the classic toy. Users can adjust the canvas resolution with a slider; draw with a pen, shader, or eraser using customizable colors; and clear the canvas. It was developed with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, leveraging event-driven programming to handle user input and game logic.

The Interactive Image Selector allows users to load an image from the device, use the “Point-to-point” tool to select straight lines of the image or use the “Intelligent scissors” tool to identify edges based on the brightness and color of pixels - similarly to Photoshop’s Magic Wand tool - and save the selected portion of the original image as a PNG file. The GUI was built using Java’s Swing framework, and Dijkstra’s algorithm was implemented with a min-heap queue.