I took an engineering elective that caters towards community service projects (you can find more information here). Normally you would expect to be grouped with upperclassmen in a project as a first-year, but random selection put me in a team of individuals with little to no experience as well, so we all had to shoulder a lot more responsibility.
The fabrication shop on campus that is part of UTDesign needed an administrative tool-tracking app for their hardware tools. People would check out these tools via a paper log and sometimes stole from them. I proposed a MERN stack (and used MySQL instead of MongoDB), though later on I realized that we could have easily done something more lightweight like LAMP. It is what it is though. At least we can proudly say that we were the founding software developers of this project, as the development of it extended into later semesters for people to continue optimizing.
I made the REST APIs for MySQL and architected the database (if you view the repo, my contributions dissappeared due to credential changes). This was prior to taking any database class, so it was especially enticing. The rest of the group focused on the import/export logs functionality, transaction data entry, and the overall interface.
I also was the document manager responsible for tracking progress of everyone via PIG reports and weekly scrum meetings. I clocked in about 65 hours to the project and presented it to various companies at our end-of-semester showcase panel.