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1st place

Samsung Innovation Campus Capstone Project

Samsung Algeria · Jan. 2026

Chamel holding the first-place award on stage with his capstone team and Samsung Innovation Campus representatives

The challenge

Much of the revision for the Algerian Baccalaureate now happens on YouTube. For our Samsung Innovation Campus capstone, the four of us set out to understand which Bac lessons engage students, and why.

My contribution

I built the data side of the pipeline: collecting the lessons through the YouTube Data API, the filter that keeps only Bac content, the engagement features and the predictive model. I also proposed extracting best practices from the collected data, which a teammate built into the recommendation agent.

The outcome

Our team won first place. Afterwards I prepared the project for an open-source release as BacStage.

Photographs

Chamel presenting the capstone project with a microphone and a clicker
Chamel speaking for his team on stage, the jury's portraits on the screen behind them
Chamel and his teammates holding their Samsung Innovation Campus certificates in front of a wall of student portraits

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