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Hey there! I'm Athaalaa <b class="colored-text">Altaf</b> Hafidz. I am a scholar studying abroad in <b class="colored-text">Singapore</b> from
<b class="colored-text">Indonesia</b> who likes to <b class="colored-text">create</b> and <b class="colored-text">tinker</b> with computers, usually.
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I'm mainly a <span class="colored-text">game developer</span> and <span class="colored-text">web developer</span>, but I
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<p>Since little, I've always liked making things, from making things with cardboard, to tinkering with computers and electronics. Even making ROBLOX games!</p>
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<p>Around the age of 10-12, I've started learning programming more seriously. I started off with game devleopment and web development, and also did some desktop programming.</p>
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<p>At the same time, I also explored other creative media such as videography and others. Programming still remained as my main thing.</p>
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<h1 class="colored-text">2022</h1>
<span class="timeline-milestone-left">Middle School</span>
<span class="timeline-milestone-right">Indonesia</span>
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<h2>Tank Shooter</h2>
<p>Created and published my first major game project. A 2D pixel art arcade shooter game.</p>
<p><a class="link" href="https://altaf-creator.itch.io/tank-shooter"><i class="fa-brands fa-itch-io"></i> / Tank Shooter →</a></p>
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<h2>simpliCity</h2>
<p>The original Unity project for simpliCity, "Sandbox Game", was created. This is a major project that I'm still working on!</p>
<p><a class="link" href="/projects/simpliCity/">View simpliCity →</a></p>
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<h1 class="colored-text">2023</h1>
<span class="timeline-milestone-left">Middle School</span>
<span class="timeline-milestone-right">Indonesia</span>
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<h2>Alarm (Al-Azhar Rawamangun) Robotics Competition</h2>
<p><b>1st place, Team</b></p>
<p>My first major robotics competition. Our team of 3 paritcipated in the creative category. A metropolitan-wide private competition.</p>
<p><a class="link" href="/event/alarm_id/">Read more →</a></p>
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<h2>ASEAN Robotics Day</h2>
<p><b>4th place, Team</b></p>
<p>Created a new robot with the theme of environmental sustainability. Our team of 5 participated in the creative category. A public nation-wide and theoretically ASEAN region-wide competition.</p>
<p><a class="link" href="/event/aseanrd_id/">Read more →</a></p>
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<h2>Trans Studio Bandung Robotics Competition</h2>
<p><b>1st place, Team</b></p>
<p>Our team of 3 refined our previous robot for the creative category. A pretty major public nation-wide competition.</p>
<p><a class="link" href="/event/tsb_id/">Read more →</a></p>
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<h1 class="colored-text">2024</h1>
<span class="timeline-milestone-left">Middle School</span>
<span class="timeline-milestone-right">Indonesia</span>
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<h2>MOE Singapore ASEAN Scholarship for Indonesia</h2>
<p>I've been granted the opportunity to study in Singapore independently for my Upper Secondary to Junior College years from this scholarship.</p>
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<h1 class="colored-text">2025</h1>
<span class="timeline-milestone-left">Secondary 3</span>
<span class="timeline-milestone-right">Singapore</span>
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<h2>CCA Vice President for Infocomm (Media Creation) Club</h2>
<p>Became one of the presidents for Ngee Ann Secondary School's Infocomm (Media Creation) Club CCA. (Achievements)</p>
<p><a class="link" href="/event/infocomm/">Read more →</a></p>
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<h2>Yellow Ribbon Arts Competition</h2>
<p><b>Top Winner</b></p>
<p>Participated in my first ever videography competition. This competition is part of Yellow Ribbon Arts Festival 2025 hosted by Yellow Ribbon Singapore.</p>
<p><a class="link" href="/video/stringsoffreedom/">Watch my short film →</a></p>
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<h2>Class VIA Leader Committe</h2>
<p>My form class organised a beach clean-up VIA project, where I helped out organising and creating a video of it.</p>
<p><a class="link" href="/video/s3via/">Watch our video →</a></p>
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<h2>National Youth Tech Championship</h2>
<p><b>Champion, Team</b></p>
<p>Ngee Ann's team of 4 won the 1st place in NYTC in 2025, the premier tech and robotics competition hosted by IMDA. Featured in The Straits Times.</p>
<p><a class="link" href="/event/nytc/">Read more →</a></p>
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<h2>Infocomm CCA VIA at Tampines East CC</h2>
<p>Every year, Ngee Ann's Infocomm Club does VIA projects. This year, the CCA collaborated with People's Association in Tampines East to teach elderly residents videography and editing.</p>
<p><a class="link" href="/event/infocomm/">Read more →</a></p>
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<h2>NASA Space Apps Challenge</h2>
<b>Global Nominee</b>
<p>An international hackathon that I participated in with a couple of friends from my school and Dunman Secondary during our end of year holidays.</p>
<p><a class="link" href="/projects/deja/">View our project →</a></p>
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<h2>MINDS Charity Carwash Video</h2>
<p>Infocomm CCA leaders volunteered to create a promotional video for MINDS Charity Carwash at MINDS Community Hub (Geylang Serai). MINDS is a non-profit social agency serving persons with intellectual disability and their families.</p>
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<h2>Ngee Ann Open House Video</h2>
<p>In partnership with the school, Infocomm CCA in collaboration with Photography CCA created an appreciation video for all student helpers at NAS Open House 2025.</p>
<p><a class="link" href="/video/openhouse/">Watch our video →</a></p>
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<h2>Internship at Tinkertanker</h2>
<p>Some of my Computing friends and me was granted an internship opportunity from our school with Tinkertanker Pte Ltd during our end of year holidays. This was my first ever internship. We got the opportunity to create some cool projects while we were there too.</p>
<p><a class="link" href="/event/tinkertanker/">Read more →</a></p>
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<h1 class="colored-text">2026</h1>
<span class="timeline-milestone-right">Singapore</span>
<span class="timeline-milestone-left">Secondary 4</span>
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<h2>Secondary 1 Orientation Facilitator</h2>
<p>I was offered the opportunity to help out with my school's Secondary 1 orientation as a student facilitator.</p>
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<h2>Ngee Ann Secondary School Founder's Day</h2>
<p><b>Recipient of Certificate of Merit for Computing</b></p>
<p>The school awards Certificate of Merit to the 2 top-performing students of a subject.</p>
<p><a class="link" href="/event/foundersday/">Read more →</a></p>
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<h2>Ngee Ann Secondary School Founder's Day</h2>
<p><b>Infocomm CCA as Recipient of Certificate of Commendation for Outstanding Community Service</b></p>
<p>The school awards this certificate for students and student groups that has shown commitment in service and has brought real impacts, with the goal of cultivating value creators of the community.</p>
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<h2>Temasek Engineering Olympiad</h2>
<p><b>Silver Medal</b></p>
<p>A 3-day engineering and electronics workshop and competition hosted by Temasek Polytechnic School of Engineering.</p>
<p><a class="link" href="/event/temasekeng/">Read more →</a></p>
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<h2>National Olympiad of Informatics 2026 (and 2025)</h2>
<p><b>Bronze Medal</b></p>
<p>An algorithmic problem-solving contest open to secondary and junior college students in Singapore. I participated in 2025 and 2026, and achieved the bronze medal this year.</p>
<p><a class="link" href="/event/noi/">Read more →</a></p>
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<h2>National Olympiad of Artificial Intelligence</h2>
<p><b>Bronze Medal</b></p>
<p>Held by NTU and AI Singapore, NOAI is a relatively new programming contest about AI programming.</p>
<p><a class="link" href="/event/noai/">Read more →</a></p>
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<h2>Copyright School Challenge '25/26</h2>
<p><b>2nd place</b></p>
<p>A videography competition held by CLASS Singapore with the theme "The Worlds We Make" in aligment with AFCC 2026.</p>
<p><a class="link" href="/video/paperverse/">Watch my submission →</a></p>
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