Celestia: CSE Association Website
A department website, rebuilt in one hour.
1. THE SITUATION
On 25 March 2026 the Computer Science department at Eranad Knowledge City was relaunching its association as Celestia. ELEVATES coordinated the entire relaunch event, and we had invited the chief guest: Moosa Mehar MP, Co-Founder and CEO of TinkerHub Foundation. He was arriving at 2:00 PM.
The association's website was three years old and needed a complete overhaul.
With two hours left, two of us called the HOD from the back of a bike and asked for permission to rebuild it before the guest arrived. Then we named five students, none of whom had built anything for the department before, and three of us walked into their classrooms and pulled them out of their sessions.
"We invited TinkerHub's CEO, coordinated the event, and rebuilt the department website in 60 minutes."
2. THE NUMBERS
3. WHAT WE BUILT
Full 4-route website (Home, Teams, Gallery, Contact) built with React 18, Vite, and Tailwind CSS.
GSAP ScrollTrigger & Lenis smooth scrolling integration for pinned horizontal identity cards.
Python gesture-detection launch mechanism using OpenCV and MediaPipe: Chief Guest raised his hand on stage to trigger the live website launch.
Spec-driven rapid AI build pipeline executed in 60 minutes with Claude & Cursor.
4. HOW IT HELD UP
Shipped in 1 hour and deployed live on Vercel before the chief guest arrived. Launched on stage with 100% gesture recognition accuracy on the first attempt.
• Five non-founder junior students executed the specification while 7 founding members managed event operations.
• Chief Guest Moosa Mehar MP (Co-Founder & CEO of TinkerHub) personally tested the gesture launch and congratulated the student developer.
5. WHAT WE WOULD DO DIFFERENTLY
Never deploy mock placeholder data to production without a pre-deploy read-through out loud.
Restore dropped real faculty testimonials from the previous association site.
Transfer Vercel deployment project ownership to an official institutional account.
5. WHO BUILT IT
PRODUCTION TEAMWHO WROTE IT
5 BUILDERSFaseen
3rd year, CSE · Frontend BuildShibin
3rd year, CSE · Frontend BuildZakariya
3rd year, CSE · Frontend BuildDanish
1st year, T2 · Frontend BuildAbhijith CJ
3rd year, AI & DS · Build & Gesture Launch Developer✦ Built the gesture-controlled launchWHO MADE IT POSSIBLE
0 LINES OF CODESarhan Qadir KVM ↗
Called the HOD from the bike, directed the buildNaseem Shan ↗
Wrote the build specificationMohammed Nafih P ↗
On the bike when the call was madeAdhinan K ↗
Held the team together until the others arrivedMohammed Shahin EK ↗
Walked into the classrooms and fetched the buildersMashood M ↗
Walked into the classrooms and fetched the buildersArshak ↗
Walked into the classrooms and fetched the buildersFACULTY AUTHORIZATION & SUPPORT
Jasira KT
ELEVATES Faculty Head, CSEAnu K Soman
HOD, CSEAnas Bin Malik
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering7. STACK AND CODE
Your department has a website that has not been touched since 2022.
We do this.