Dex Bennett / Stylenecy

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Results, roles and certificates. Everything here was checked against a document on 19 October 2026. Where a result has not happened yet, it says so.

(01) Competitions

Results

Track winner — Consumer & Viral DAppsMantle Turing Test HackathonMantle — international, online · Announced 10 Jul 2026 · Cult of the Digital Oracle — UI assets, GitBook docs and the six-minute pitch, on a team of three. One of six track winners.Open ↗
2nd place — 1st runner-upBMC #12 International Business Plan CompetitionPoliteknik Negeri Bali · Announced 21 Aug 2026 · Emitra — Co-presenter in the live, online English final — team MAKOSAN. One of 15 international finalist teams; three prizes awarded.Open ↗
1st placeBusiness Plan Competition — KSE Juara, national levelKarya Salemba Empat × Universitas Sumatera Utara · Announced 2 May 2026 · Sowan — Built the platform — team MAKOSAN. Certificate on file.Confirmed
Top 10 finalistSolve-It Challenge 2026Universitas Kristen Krida Wacana (UKRIDA) · Final round 13 Jun 2026 · Sowan — Team MAKOSANConfirmed
Top 15 semifinalistBusiness Plan Competition EURECA 2026Universitas Prasetiya Mulya, Tangerang · Apr 2026 · SowanConfirmed
Honourable mention (Juara Harapan III)Victus Campus Heroes — Valorant, YogyakartaHP Indonesia × Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta · Nov 2023. Certificate on file.Confirmed

Entered, did not place

Jul 2026Mantle Research ChallengeEssay — "The Distribution Paradox", published on the BCC UKDW blogRead ↗
Jul 2026Hack-A-Agent HackathonSolo entry — Sowan: AlmanacSubmitted
May 20260G APAC Hackathon 2026Team of three — I wrote the documentationSubmitted
Apr 2026Gadjah Mada Tourism Fair 2026Two-person team, organised by UGMSubmitted

Up next: Demo Day at the Indonesia Web3 Hackathon 2026 (BNB Chain)

Oct 2026DRIFTRisk rules for a trading bot that anyone can check on-chain — the bot cannot overrule the guard. My fork of a BCC UKDW seed project; the upstream core was written by others.Not shortlisted for Demo Day
Oct 2026Cermin SakuA scheduled allowance paid from a BNB vault — and refused by the contract when the position is not safe. Builds on Cermin by Kiel (MIT licence, 1st place at Mezo Hackathon 2).Top 15 of 228 · not in the final 10
Oct 2026LencanaLearning credentials anyone can verify in a browser — an AI agent proposes the grade, the issuer is checked on BNB Chain. A team build: Hans Gunawan leads the product and contracts, with Dave Aryanda.Invited to pitch at Demo Day

(02) Roles

Where I have been responsible for something

Apr 2026 – nowPlatform builderSowan.id · student venture, and my thesis — Architecture, database design and the build, across the competition track and the thesis version.Active
Semester 7 · 2026Teaching assistant: Software Engineering & Programming Fundamentals labInformation Systems, UKDWActive
2026 – nowInternship (Kerja Praktik): agreement-reminder automationFaculty of Medicine, UKDW · Microsoft 365 — Automatic reminders before partnership agreements (MOU/MOA) expire. Two test runs worked; still in progress.Active
Jul – Aug 2026Overall chair — KKN Tematik STEM 2026UKDW × Hong Kong Polytechnic University — Led 59 students across 10 groups and acted as direct liaison to the Hong Kong PolyU supervisors and students. Two programmes: vision screening across 7 schools reaching 2,029 pupils (21–27 July 2026), and the LEAP 2036 high-school workshop (3–5 August 2026).Done
Feb – May 2026Fullstack developer, internSynapse Labs — AFED × BPD HIPMI DIYDone
Jun 2025 – Feb 2026Research assistantHead of Information Systems, UKDW — VR Inclusive Tourism — 3D assets and scenes for an accessible VR beach, and teaching community members to use it.Done
Feb 2025 – Apr 2026Coordinator, Aspirations DivisionBPM FTI UKDW — Ran three "FTI Mendengar" forums, bringing 50+ students into direct dialogue with the faculty leadership and following the outcomes through to concrete changes.Done
Feb – Jun 2025Teaching assistant — Mathematics for Information SystemsInformation Systems, UKDWDone
2025Chair — DIBARSIPeer discussion programme, Information SystemsDone
2025PR coordinator — FTI Camp 2025Faculty of Information Technology, UKDWDone
2024Secretary — ISCD 2024 "Python Coding Adventure"Information Systems, UKDWDone
Jan 2026 – nowDesign & IT teamPeran Gendis · community for women, children, gender and disability, Yogyakarta — Also taught as a volunteer in GeMar (Gendis Mengajar), the 2026 teaching programme, which has now finished.Active
2026 – nowMemberBCC UKDW · the campus Web3 student community — My Mantle Research Challenge essay is published on the community blog.Active
2026 – 2028Youth commission board, PDD divisionGKKK Yogyakarta — On the Pemerhati team 2024–2026. Also plays drums and keys for services.Active

(03) Certificates

Scans

Only the 14 certificates whose scan actually ships with this site are shown. Certificates for 12 further programmes exist on file and are available on request.

Also attended: Google Gemini Academy 2026 · FTI Camp · DILUSI · Dialog Lintas Iman (DLI) 2024 · Peh Cun · PeDas APTIKOM · Pekan Budaya Tionghoa Yogyakarta · SAP programme · Talk Show KaMu · Sui GTC · WoW programme · ICE conference

(04) Design

Graphic work

Posters, banners and event graphics for student organisations and a church youth ministry. Photographs of people were removed from this gallery: this is a public page and those faces are not mine to publish.

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