add new event

[mish-3000]

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[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Adds a new event (“CodeArena 26”) to the site’s event data and updates the Events carousel UI to show an additional call-to-action for that event.

Changes:

• Added “CodeArena 26” to upcoming and past events JSON data.
• Updated Events.jsx to show an “Apply Now” button for “CodeArena 26” in addition to “Explore”.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 3 out of 3 changed files in this pull request and generated 4 comments.

File	Description
src/utils/upcoming_events.json	Appends the new event to the upcoming events list.
src/utils/past_events.json	Appends the new event to the events list used by the Events carousel/detail page.
src/components/Events.jsx	Adds a conditional “Apply Now” CTA for the new event and keeps “Explore”.

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (1)

src/utils/upcoming_events.json:26

• The JSON array is missing its closing "]" at the end of the file, which makes this invalid JSON and will break any import/parse of upcoming_events.json. Add the closing bracket (and keep formatting consistent with the rest of the file).

    {
        "event":"CodeArena 26",
        "desc":"",
        "image":"",
        "date":"2026-04-15"
    }

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[Copilot]

This event name contains a space and is also used as the URL segment for the event detail route (via /events/${event.event}) and as a lookup key (events.find(...)). Consider introducing a URL-safe slug/id (e.g., eventId) or ensure the value is consistently encoded/decoded, otherwise navigation/lookups can fail for names with spaces or special characters.

[Copilot]

window.open("https://your-apply-link.com") looks like a placeholder and will ship a non-functional CTA. Also consider opening with noopener,noreferrer (or using a normal link component) to avoid reverse-tabnabbing issues when opening external sites.

Suggested change

	{event.event === "CodeArena 26" && (
	<Button
	onClick={() => window.open("https://your-apply-link.com")}
	{event.event === "CodeArena 26" && event.applyLink && (
	<Button
	onClick={() =>
	window.open(event.applyLink, "_blank", "noopener,noreferrer")
	}

[Copilot]

Hard-coding event.event === "CodeArena 26" couples UI behavior to a specific display name. This will be fragile if the name changes and doesn’t scale to future events; consider driving this from event data (e.g., an applyUrl field) and rendering the CTA when that field is present.

[Copilot]

router.push(/events/${event.event}) now needs to handle event identifiers that include spaces (e.g., "CodeArena 26"). To avoid malformed URLs / mismatch with useParams(), use a URL-safe identifier (slug) or explicitly encode the segment before pushing.

Suggested change

	onClick={() => router.push(`/events/${event.event}`)}
	onClick={() => router.push(`/events/${encodeURIComponent(event.event)}`)}