Rishit Rastogi

IEEE Kalpana - Hack for Humanity IEEE Mar 2024 Secured 1st Runners Up in the esteemed IEEE Kalpana Hack for building a Decentralized Charity Donation Platform leveraging Blockchain to revolutionize charity donations. The project utilized Solidity for smart contracts deployed on the Avalanche blockchain and Next.js for a responsive user-friendly frontend experience, ensuring secure and transparent transactions only to verified authentic charitable organisations, utilising tokenization to give user complete authority over transfers and… Show more Secured 1st Runners Up in the esteemed IEEE Kalpana Hack for building a Decentralized Charity Donation Platform leveraging Blockchain to revolutionize charity donations. The project utilized Solidity for smart contracts deployed on the Avalanche blockchain and Next.js for a responsive user-friendly frontend experience, ensuring secure and transparent transactions only to verified authentic charitable organisations, utilising tokenization to give user complete authority over transfers and tracking. This innovative approach and implementation was extremely well received by the judging panel. Show less

Capture The Flag C-ISFCR (PESU) Oct 2023 Won a cash prize for standing 9th among 100+ teams. (Top 12 winnners)

Ingenious 2.0 Hackathon PESU May 2023 Won 3rd place in FOSS track of the prestigious Ingenious Hackathon as a freshman participating in his first ever hackathon. Over the course of 24 hours, we contributed to various repositories and got exposure to a whole new language Julia - the sponsors of our flagship hackathon with over 60 shortlisted teams participating. Yet one of the only 2 teams to win exclusive Julia merchandise (for contributing to their repo) and ingenoius goodies. Heck of a learning experience!

MRD Scholarship PESU Apr 2023 40% college tuition fee waiver for admirable academic performance.

General Proficiency Sindhi High School Won this award for excellent academic performance 7 consecutive years: 4th-10th standard (standing 1st and 2nd place each thrice).