ScholarBridge

Over the last few months, me and my group consisting of Farzan Irani, Mayur Dumbre & Hriday Gandhi have been working on 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞, our 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭, and this video is a short walkthrough of what we built.
👉 𝐆𝐢𝐭𝐇𝐮𝐛 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨: https://github.com/Team-C49/ScholarBridge-backup .
This is not a UI-only demo or a theoretical idea. ScholarBridge is a working full-stack system designed to solve real problems in 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 that colleges, trusts, NGOs, and funding bodies face every year - fragmented applications, manual screening, poor coordination & limited transparency.

• The platform is built on the 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐍 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 (𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐒𝐐𝐋, 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐭, 𝐍𝐨𝐝𝐞.𝐣𝐬) with 𝐓𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐒𝐒 on the frontend. All documents and KYC files are stored securely using 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐑𝟐, with signed, time-limited encrypted URLs generated on demand - ensuring documents are never publicly exposed and are accessible only to authorized users. Authentication and protected access are handled via 𝐉𝐖𝐓, credentials are secured using 𝐛𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭, and verified system communication is enabled through 𝐍𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫.
• At the core of the system is an intelligent Best-Fit algorithm that filters & ranks students based on trust-defined preferences (course, income, gender, location, merit), replacing manual shortlisting with a fair, explainable, and scalable process. The platform also supports multi-trust collaborative funding, with built-in safeguards to prevent over-funding and a complete reconciliation loop where trusts mark payments, students confirm receipt, and unresolved cases are automatically flagged for admin review - ensuring accountability end to end.
• Special thanks to our mentor , Shivani Deosthale ma'am , and Swapnil Pawar sir, who helped us with valuable insights, tips & guidance in this regard.
• I strongly urge college administrators, educational institutions, scholarship bodies, NGOs, CSR teams, and industry partners to actually look at this and evaluate it for real-world use. If your organization deals with application overload, verification delays, fund tracking, or coordination across multiple donors, this solution is built specifically to address those pain points.
• We are actively looking for relevant organizations to pilot this system in a real operational environment. If you represent (or know) an institution, trust, NGO, or CSR initiative that could benefit from this, I’d genuinely like to connect, walk you through the platform, and explore a pilot or collaboration.
• Small note: since images are not stored locally, some report visuals in the demo were captured via screenshots, which may result in a few blurred images.
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