
As a second-year computer science student, I partnered with Hafida El Hilali (economics student) under the team name FutureGrowth Lab and we were selected as one of the Top 10 national finalists in the ENSET Challenge 2025 (May 2025, ENSET Mohammedia). In the online qualification phase, we created RampUp Morocco, a web application designed to help people with disabilities discover tailored job opportunities across industries in Morocco. I rapidly prototyped the functional web app on localhost in one day using AI coding tools, while Hafida designed the logo and we prepared together the presentation.
Our project advanced to the on-site finals, where we worked on the “IA Vigilante 2025” challenge: developing an AI solution for detecting and preventing academic fraud (plagiarism, AI-generated content, and online exam cheating).
Technologies Explored: Hugging Face Transformers, Sentence-Transformers, Streamlit, langchain, chromaDB, vector-embeddings and AI agents…
Although we faced significant challenges in project organization, database management, and keeping the system stable under time pressure, this experience was a major eye-opener. It clearly highlighted my skill gaps and strongly motivated me to strengthen my software engineering fundamentals and reduce over-reliance on AI tools to build reliable, scalable projects.