Purdue University Fort Wayne Honors Program

What a wonderful evening celebrating our Purdue University Fort Wayne Honors Program graduates at Commencement! 🎓✨

Last night, more than 50 students were awarded the Honors Certificate, recognizing their hard work, curiosity, commitment, and successful completion of the Honors Program requirements. We are incredibly proud of each of these students and the dedication they have shown throughout their time at PFW.

While official photos are coming soon, here are a few moments captured from the evening. Congratulations, Honors graduates — we are so proud of you and excited for all that comes next! 🖤💛
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At LA Hacks at UCLA 2026, one of the largest collegiate hackathons in the United States, a team comprising Purdue Fort Wayne Honors students Ish*ta Gupta and Sudarshan Krishnan, alongside graduate student Om Singhal, competed among 1,000+ students and over 300 teams. The event featured strong representation from leading universities nationwide, including Ivy League institutions and Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus.

Within a 36-hour development window, the team built StudyO, an AI-powered learning platform designed to address a key challenge in modern education: enabling students to effectively synthesize and retain information from fragmented sources.
The platform transforms scattered study materials into structured, engaging learning experiences through:
• A serverless video engine that converts raw content into narrated, captioned explainer videos in under 60 seconds
• A Chrome extension (in development) for aggregating and filtering content across platforms such as Canvas, Brightspace, YouTube, and academic repositories
• Collaborative study infrastructure for shared and synchronized learning environments
• A voice-based AI tutor grounded in user-provided materials for interactive, adaptive learning
• An Apple app that records lectures and allows users to upload them as a source for later use—enabling chat-based Q&A, quiz generation, mind maps, and video summaries.

The project was awarded 1st Place in the Education Track under the Cloudinary sponsor, a distinction given to only one team, recognizing both technical ex*****on and real-world impact.
Following the competition, industry mentors and judges encouraged further development of the project. The team is currently exploring next steps, including participation in Purdue University’s startup incubator and accelerator programs.

Project links:
Website: https://www.studystudio.us
Devpost: https://devpost.com/software/studyo-mju34e
Demo: https://youtu.be/jQ3Fq21-e_k