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+# My FOSS Overflow 2025–26 Experience 
+
+**By Gm Aravind**
+
+## Introduction
+
+I participated in the FOSS Overflow 2025–26 program, where I got the opportunity to contribute to a real-world open-source project. In this blog I will share my experience,contributions and what I learned during the program.
+
+## About FOSS Overflow
+
+FOSS Overflow is a mentorship program that helps students learn open-source development by working on real projects with guidance from mentors. It provides a great environment to learn, build and collaborate to a meaningfull oss project.
+
+## My Project
+
+I worked on the **Student Database COSA** project. This project is used to manage student-related activities such as bookings, budgets and administrative tasks.
+
+The goal of the project is to make student management more organized and efficient.
+
+## My Contributions
+
+During the program, I worked on both frontend and backend features.
+
+Some of my major contributions include:
+
+* Implementing a **Budget Management System** with backend APIs and a dashboard UI for tracking transactions
+* Building a **Smart Room Booking System** where users can create bookings, check availability, and manage booking status
+* Developing **booking clash detection** to prevent conflicts in room reservations
+* Adding **role-based access control** and approval workflows
+* Migrating the frontend from **Create React App (CRA) to Vite**, which improved performance and build speed.
+
+Some of my key pull requests:
+
+* PR #240 – Budget Management System
+* PR #235 – Smart Room Booking Frontend
+* PR #233 – Backend for Booking & Clash Detection
+* PR #221 – CRA to Vite Migration
+
+## Challenges Faced
+
+At the beginning, I faced several challenges like in:
+
+* Understanding the existing codebase.
+* Designing scalable backend systems.
+* Handling edge cases in booking conflicts.
+* Connecting frontend and backend properly.
+* Migrating the project from CRA to Vite.
+* Fixing PR review comments by code rabbit and improving code quality 
+
+With the help of my mentor Harshita, I was able to overcome these challenges.
+
+## Learnings
+
+This program helped me improve many skills:
+
+* Full-stack development (React + Node.js)
+* Writing clean and structured code
+* Debugging and solving real-world problems
+* Working with Git and GitHub (PRs, reviews, CI)
+* Understanding how large projects are built and maintained
+
+I also learned how to collaborate with others in an open-source environment.
+
+## Conclusion
+
+Overall, My FOSS Overflow 2026 was a very valuable experience for me. It helped me gain confidence in contributing to open source and improved my development skills.
+
+I would like to thank my mentor Harshita Patidar for her guidance and support throughout the program. 
+This journey motivated and challenged me to continue learning and contributing to open source and keep improving as a developer.