🎯 This Week’s Challenge (in Pairs!)

Build a mini movie recommendation system with a simple website using the [KuaiRand Dataset](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/arashnic/an-unbiased-sequential-recommendation-dataset).
- One handles the web part
- One handles machine learning
- Use only 10–20% of the data

📤 Submit: GitHub repo + working demo to [@alphityy]
🏆 Prize: Pass the first step toward an Aviation University internship
📅 Deadline: After two weeks

Good luck and have fun building! 🚀

📢 Announcement: NoSQL Challenge Deadline Closed!

The deadline for the NoSQL challenge has ended! ⏰ A big thank you to all the competitors. we will be sharing the amazing works from our participants. 🚀

🧠 PeerHelp – Community Q&A Platform
By Duresa Guye – 4th Year Information Systems Student

This project was built as part of the ORM & NoSQL challenge during the IS Talks ORM & NoSQL Workshop.
PeerHelp is a community-driven Q&A platform where users can post questions, provide answers, and earn badges for contributions. No registration is required to view content; sign-up is only needed to participate actively.​
🔗 GitHub Repo | 🌐 Demo
💼 LinkedIn

🦸‍♂️ Habit-Hero Tracker – Supercharge Your Daily Habits
By Mihiret Daniel – 3rd Year Information Systems Student

This project was developed as part of the ORM & NoSQL challenge during the IS Talks ORM & NoSQL Workshop.
Habit-Hero Tracker is a web application designed to transform your daily rituals into super-powered routines. It allows users to track and crush habits, view daily snapshots, and customize vibes with color choices and frequency settings.​
🔗 GitHub Repo 🌐 [Frontend Demo] |Backednd demo |🛠 [Backend Repo (Forked)]
💼 LinkedIn Profile |

💬 PDF X – Talk to Your PDFs with AI
By Yonatan Tadese – 2nd Year Software Engineering Student

This project was built as part of the ORM & NoSQL challenge during the IS Talks ORM & NoSQL Workshop.
PDF X enables users to upload any PDF and interact with it through AI-powered chat — ideal for quick summaries and Q&A sessions.​

🔗 GitHub Repo | 🌐 Demo-@pdf_x_bot
💼 LinkedIn

🔗 URL Shortener – Simplify Your Links
By Abiy Hailu – 2nd Year Information Systems Student

This project was built as part of the ORM & NoSQL challenge during the IS Talks ORM & NoSQL Workshop.
URL Shortener allows users to transform long URLs into short, shareable links — perfect for social media, emails, or anywhere a compact URL is needed.​

🔗 GitHub Repo | 🌐 Demo
💼 LinkedIn

Here is the recorded video of yesterday's live workshop.

Material 👉 Link

🎯 🔥 LIVE CODING ALERT 🔥 🕗 Time: 2 (Local Time) ,Dont miss out !

⚡️ Turbo Social Media Downloader Bot - Bulk Video & Audio Extractor 🎵 By second year Is student Eyob Simachew

💡 Why This Bot Exists

When my friend and I faced losing our 2,500+ TikTok favorites due to TikTok ban in US, we knew we needed a better solution than manual downloads. That's why we built this high-speed bulk downloader that handles everything with one command!

🔥 Killer Features
✔️ Single OR Bulk Downloads - Process one video or hundreds at once
✔️ Multi-Platform Support - Works with TikTok, YouTube, Instagram & more
✔️ Audio Extraction - Instantly convert videos to high-quality MP3
✔️ Blazing Fast Speeds - Parallel processing(child-processing)

🚀 How It Beats Other Downloaders
- No limits on batch sizes
- Background processing - bot stays responsive during big jobs using child-process and stream piping node algorithms.

Get the source code on Github:

https://github.com/Eyob-smax/Media-Downloader-bot

The wait is over! Culture Day 🇪🇹 is here!
Join us for a day full of color, culture, unity — and pride!

Date: Saturday, May 3, 2025
Time: ⏳ 5:00 AM
📍 Location: 4 Kilo Campus

Let’s celebrate our diversity through harmony

Don’t miss it‼️

📌 Brought to you by Demak Events & 4 Kilo GC Committees

A message from Information Systems Hub team for every Information Systems student:

Build a project. Learn a tech stack by building something—not by watching 5–6 hour tutorials. Tutorials are important, but not as powerful as learning by building. Tutorial learning is passive, but building is active learning.

That’s why we host workshops. That’s why we feature your projects here. That’s why we prepare competitions—to inspire you to build projects.

Whether you're a 1st year or 4th year, just build anything. It could be a basic console calculator or an epic industry-standard application. Just build and build.

Then send us your project via this [link] if you want us to feature it here.

📢 The Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute is hosting the Ethiopia Public-Private Sector AI Connect on May 2, 2025, from 4:30 PM to 8:30 PM at the Institute’s headquarters.

This key forum brings together AI startups, researchers, innovators, and students to address challenges, showcase solutions, and engage in impactful dialogue.

🗓 Event Date: May 2, 2025
📍 Location: Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute
🕓 Time: 4:30 PM – 8:30 PM
✅ Registration: Open from April 25 – Closes April 29 at 2:00 PM
🔗 Register here

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🚨 Don't Miss Today's Live Session! 🚨

🧠 Join Daniel Mola, the one behind the popular Leetcode with Dani channel, for an exclusive live session on python :

🔄 Traversing Lists

🧩 Navigating Matrices

⏰ Time: 2:00 PM Local Time (2LT).

🎙 Live Q&A Session

Meet Information Systems Alumni Hanan kadir and Awoke Dejenie get all your questions answered!
🗓 Wednesday | 8 PM | 2 LT
📍 Hosted by Information Systems Hub
🌟 Don’t miss this chance to learn, connect, and get inspired 👉 Fresh students, bring your questions! This is your moment to learn from those who've walked the path before you. Ask anything — career, internships, skills, and beyond!

live stream has already started

🚀 Ready to build the future?

Join us for the IoT Dev Workshop – From Embedded Hardware to Cloud-Connected Apps!

Get hands-on with IoT! Learn how to go from hardware basics to building smart, cloud-connected apps — and bring your own mini project to life.

🎤 Special session with Salman Ali, startup founder, software engineer, and CEO of Evergreen Technologies. A top Software Engineering student at AAU, Salman leads youth innovation projects across Ethiopia and brings real-world insights into smart tech and IoT.

📍Location: FBE Chole Hall, College of Business and Economics, AAU
📅 Date: Friday, May 2, 2025
🕜 Time: 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM (7:30 LT- 10 LT)

What to expect:

🔹 Learn embedded hardware basics
🔹 Program and debug real systems
🔹 Build your own mini IoT project
🔹 Network with passionate developers!

Spots are limited — RSVP now and let's innovate together: https://gdg.community.dev/e/m2aykn/

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