CampusConnect

Problem

Extracurricular life at AUB is coordinated through scattered announcements — students miss events, club managers have no participant lists, and there's no single view of what's happening across campus.

Solution

CampusConnect models the full lifecycle in one role-aware API: students browse events with club, date, and keyword filters and register or cancel before the start date with duplicate-registration blocking; managers create clubs and events and pull participant lists; admins deactivate users and view platform statistics. A seeded H2 database, Swagger UI, and a fetch-based frontend make the whole system runnable with one Maven command.

What I Learned

Designing the API around roles from the first endpoint — rather than bolting on permissions later — kept the controllers thin and made every new feature a question of who can do this, not how do we check.