Projects - Evan Gan

Aug-Sep 2026

Programming

WPI Planner Refresh

A port of WPI's course planner to SvelteKit with faster load times and calendar export.

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Jun 2026

Programming

Passport Photo Maker

A free, open source website that crops photos to passport standards.

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Jun-Jul 2026

Builds

CoreXY Pen Plotter

A 2' by 2' CoreXY pen plotter I designed, built, and exhibited at Open Sauce.

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Sep 2022 - Jun 2026

RoboticsHighlights

The LigerBots

The LigerBots - First robotics team 2877 for Newton North and South High Schools. Newton MA

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Apr 2025 - May 2026

Programming

Slack Ticketing Bot

A Slack ticketing bot that handled hundreds of tickets a day during live Hack Club events.

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Mar-Sep 2026

Programming

Tract

An iPad note taking app with an infinite canvas and problem tagging.

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Dec 2025 - Feb 2026

Hackathons

Campfire Flagship

Organized and ran a 60-person hackathon in Los Angeles, partnering with Open Sauce to bring creators on site.

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Nov 2025

Programming

Next Up

A macOS menu bar app that counts down to the next event on your schedule.

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Sep-Oct 2025

Programming

Personal Website

This site! Built from the ground up in SvelteKit.

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Sep 27th 2025

Hackathons

Daydream Hackathon

Organized and ran a 12-hour hackathon at the Microsoft NERD Center with 60 teen attendees. (Fourth hackathon organized)

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Nov 2025 - Aug 2026

HackathonsHighlights

Horizons

Managed $200K across a global series of six hackathons, leading local teams and running operations on site in Berlin and San Francisco.

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Aug 8-11th 2025

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Shipwrecked

Conceived and led a 130-person hackathon; secured $140K funding, managed logistics, recruited participants, and coordinated all event operations. (Third hackathon organized)

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Mar 2025

Programming

QR Code Check-in Web App

A flexible, easy to use, QR code check-in app for events.

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Mar 15th 2025

Hackathons

Scrapyard Hackathon

Organized and ran a 12-hour hackathon at the Microsoft NERD Center with 60 teen attendees. (Second hackathon organized)

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Mar 8th 2025

Programming

Polaris student management system

Web app built with Next.js to help the Achieve Nonprofit track students and search by date/time windows.

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Nov 23rd 2024

Hackathons

Counterspell Hackathon

Organized and ran a 12-hour hackathon at the Microsoft NERD Center with 60 teen attendees. (First hackathon organized)

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Sep-Nov 2024

BuildsRobotics

Pumpkin Smash

Built & designed an 8 foot tall guillotine to smash pumpkins at my city's annual pumpkin composting event

May 2024

Programming

Maze Generator

Recursive TypeScript maze generator for a pen plotter in the Hack Club Blot ecosystem.

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May 2024

Programming

Wordle Solver

A scalable Swift-based solver that cracks any Wordle variant using ranked word heuristics.

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May 17-19th 2024

Builds

Apocalypse Hackathon Device

Peer-to-peer communication device built for an apocalypse-themed hackathon.

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Apr-Jul 2024

Builds

Off the Grid Communicator Circuit Board

Built off the grid texting device for a hackathon on the Pacific Crest Trail, without cell service

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Mar 1-2nd 2024

Programming

Distractatime

Built an anti-productivity Mac app for the "useless project" prompt at a 12-hour hackathon.

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Oct 5th 2021

Builds

Little Free Library

Designed and built a Little Free Library from scratch in Tinker CAD