1st Place: National Web Design Competition.

The journey to winning 1st Place at the ICOMFEST 2025 National Web Design Competition began with a simple moment during my semester break. Having cultivated a passion for web development since junior high school, I was immediately intrigued upon seeing the competition announcement. I proactively gathered two peers to form a team, assuming dual responsibilities as the Team Lead and Project Manager, while also serving as a core developer actively coding and building the website alongside my teammates.

Through extensive brainstorming and technical collaboration, we conceptualized and engineered 'PusakaKu,' an interactive platform designed to revitalize traditional Indonesian games. Driven by a concern that our cultural heritage was fading in the modern era, we integrated comprehensive historical information with a captivating user interface and educational gamification. Our primary challenge was time management; we initiated the project during our last week of holiday, but had to sustain the development phase for another three weeks while navigating a highly demanding boarding school schedule. Balancing intensive coding sessions with rigorous academic duties required immense dedication. Nevertheless, through strategic delegation and relentless hands-on teamwork, we successfully advanced to the Top 5.

Pitching our project to the panel of judges during the grand final felt natural, as daily practice at school had thoroughly refined my public speaking skills. Yet, despite the intense hard work we poured into developing the platform, hearing our team announced as the national champion remained a profoundly surreal and unexpected moment. It proved that a spontaneous initiative sparked during a holiday rest, when driven by relentless commitment and collaborative execution, can culminate in an extraordinary achievement.