Scarlet Labs

Overview

Scarlet Labs is an optional year-long program where students in the Coding & Social Lounge (CSL) build long-term technical projects from start to finish in small teams. Each team is assigned an alumni mentor to help them refine and implement their project idea. This program started in Spring 2025. All current and past projects can be found on the Rutgers CSL GitHub.

Objectives

This program started to address the growing gap between skills and knowledge obtained in the school setting versus the skills used in the software engineering industry. Some key skills that participants obtain from the program:

Learn industry-relevant technical skills and best practices
Gain experience that students can talk about in interviews
A full-fledged technical projects for each participant’s resume
Develop projects that uniquely contribute to the Rutgers community in collaboration with various stakeholders in the university, such as CS faculty and LCSR.

Current Scarlet Labs Projects

RU Course Trader
1. A mobile application that allows university students to trade their classes with each other.
2. Built by George Janulis (CS ’27), Nicole Le (ECE ’26), and Preston Ku (CS + BAIT ’27) in Fall 2025-Spring 2026.
Open Classroom Tracker
1. Providing a platform where people can look for open classrooms and lecture halls.
2. Built by Martin Shen (CS ’27), Farhan Khan (CS ’26), and Zahra Fakhri (CS ’27) in Fall 2025-Spring 2026.
CS Advising Chatbot
1. Creating a RAG-powered chatbot that helps with CS advising questions.
2. Built by Hasan Ali (CS + Physics ’27) and Austin Zhang (CS + Linguistics ’27) in Fall 2025-Spring 2026.

Past Scarlet Labs Projects

CSL Ticket Queue
1. A refactored version of the CSL Ticket Queue system
2. Built by Shatakshi Ranjan (CS ’25), Elian Deogracia-Brito (CS ’25), and Kareem Jackson (CS ’25) in Spring 2025.
3. Project slides and Demo video
Scarlet Navigator
1. Scarlet Navigator is a web application created in React and TypeScript. Analogous to Degree Navigator. Allows users to drag-and-drop courses to visually create a schedule.
2. Built by Kevin Monisit (CS ’25), Sanvi Patel (CS + Math ’25), and Sibi Tiruchirapalli (CS + DS ’25) in Spring 2025.
3. Project slides and Demo video
CS Discord Bot
1. Discord bot delivering real-time campus updates on dining, transportation, sporting events and courses. One-stop access to essential campus information for all students.
2. Built by Mary Buist (CS + Physics ’26), Nicole Le (ECE ’26), Vidu Gaur (CS ’28) in Spring 2025.
3. Project slides and Demo video
RU CS Place
1. A public online canvas for users to collaborate on drawings. Rutgers version of the original r/place on Reddit.
2. Built by Rushd Syed (CS + Philosophy ’25), Neha Jeyaram (CS, Math, Linguistics ’27), and Austin Zhang (CS + Linguistics ’27) in Spring 2025.
3. Project slides and Demo video

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