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AI-Powered Pre-Field Trip Portal

A generative AI portal for real-time student inquiries at UST CICS, handling 500+ concurrent requests with 100% reliability at a $0.38 total operational cost.

Pre-field trip portal: the Ask a Question form for parents and students
500+Concurrent requests100%Reliability

The Challenge

Students preparing for a field trip needed answers in real time, and the portal had to stay up when hundreds of them asked at once.

What I Built

A generative AI portal that answers student inquiries in real time, hosted on AWS Amplify and built to absorb sudden spikes in requests at almost no running cost.

Results

  • Handled 500+ concurrent requests
  • 100% reliability throughout the event
  • $0.38 total operational cost
  • Live board of active and resolved student questions on the UST CICS portal
  • Google AI Studio spend dashboard showing the portal’s total API cost under one dollar
  • Gemini API usage charts with total requests and errors over seven days
  • AWS Amplify monitoring: request and data-transfer spikes during the live event