Bradley Charles

1st Place, Hands-on Demo (audience vote)

BARD: Pre-Rendered LLM Dialogue

My solo capstone: a 2D action RPG in Godot 4 whose NPCs remember what you did. Each night a local LLM reads the day's game state and writes new dialogue for every named character, so the game itself stays fast, offline and deterministic.

• Moved LLM generation out of the real-time loop. The game only ever reads validated JSON, never waits on a model.
• Built a Python pipeline on Ollama and Gemma 4 with schema validation, repair calls and layered fallbacks.
• Translates raw telemetry into tiered natural language and labels every fact by how far the NPC should trust it.

Stack: Godot 4 / GDScript / Python / Ollama / Gemma 4 E4B

Project Maki

Built a local AI Discord bot with persistent per-user memory, a personality that develops over time, and two fully independent personas, running entirely on local inference via Ollama.

• Per-user memory system with weighted fact extraction (core, recent, stale) and a numeric familiarity score across five relationship tiers.
• Loop detection and self-correction — repeated replies are caught and silently regenerated before the user ever sees them.
• Dual persona architecture with fully separate memory stores, plus time-of-day context shaping tone across six mood windows.

Stack: Node.js / discord.js / Ollama / Gemma 4 E4B

North Seattle College AI Tutor

Built an AI-powered tutoring chatbot using Claude Artifact that guides Application Development students through their homework assignments with personalized, step-by-step tutoring sessions.

• Students submit assignments and receive a curated tutoring experience tailored to their specific work.
• Breaks down complex programming concepts into guided, digestible steps to reinforce learning.
• Deployed as a shareable Claude Artifact — no installation required for students or instructors.

Stack: Claude Artifact / Prompt Engineering / AI Tutoring

Opportunity Center Chatbot

Designed and shipped a multilingual support chatbot prototype for North Seattle College's Opportunity Center with a team of four.

• Built a Next.js frontend and Python API integration path for rapid iteration.
• Focused on accessibility and multilingual workflows for real campus users.
• Coordinated delivery milestones, demos, and technical documentation.

Stack: Next.js / Python / Ollama / Prompt Engineering

Security Access Control

Created a campus security access portal that turns policy requirements into a practical checklist for students and faculty.

• Translated policy language into clear implementation guidance.
• Defined authentication and account-access guardrails.
• Centralized best practices to reduce onboarding and support friction.

Stack: Security Controls / Identity Access / Knowledge Base

Pegasus Media Group: Artist Content and Music Catalog

Partnered with a cross-functional team to prototype a content and rights catalog platform for artists and creative teams.

• Mapped user journeys from release planning to catalog management.
• Produced wireframes and flow documentation aligned to client scope.
• Balanced usability goals with content governance requirements.

Stack: UI/UX / Wireframing / Content Modeling

Belinda's Closet

Built a donation and inventory portal for students and staff while owning development, security oversight, and project coordination.

• Implemented inventory visibility flows for non-technical users.
• Set up security-minded practices for a student-facing platform.
• Maintained project direction across engineering and stakeholder input.

Stack: React / Next.js / MongoDB

NSC Events

Developed an events platform for North Seattle College to help teams create, publish, and track faculty and student events.

• Simplified event publishing and tracking workflows.
• Combined delivery planning with day-to-day implementation.
• Integrated a security-first mindset into platform decisions.

Stack: React / Next.js / MongoDB