
Built using IBM Bob, VOLT, the Volcanic Operations and Lifesaving Tracker, is a mobile emergency readiness solution designed for households living near Taal Volcano. The project helps families prepare for volcanic hazards by bringing important safety tools into one clear, offline-first app experience. VOLT includes a risk dashboard, household emergency profile, personalized readiness plan, go-bag checklist, SMS family check-ins, local reminders, and an offline emergency card that can still be accessed during weak or unavailable internet connection. The app is built as a functional Expo React Native MVP with local SQLite storage and a separate backend service for live bulletin support. It retrieves PHIVOLCS Taal Volcano bulletins and presents the information in a more understandable, action-oriented way, helping users know what to prepare, what risks may apply to their household, and what steps to take during changing alert conditions. VOLT focuses on practical disaster preparedness by connecting official information, family needs, emergency contacts, and readiness tracking in one place. Overall, VOLT demonstrates how IBM Bob can be used to build a meaningful, real-world emergency response tool that supports faster decision-making, better household coordination, and stronger community preparedness during volcanic events.
17 May 2026

EduSense is an AI-powered student success assistant embedded in a simulated LMS dashboard, built as a React/Vite and Node/Express prototype for an ideathon setting. It ingests structured LMS-style academic data across grades, attendance, assignments, schedules, announcements, and interventions, then uses intent detection to route student questions to specialized agent modules. Powered by deepseek-r1 and llama3.2 via an Ollama backend, the system provides clear, actionable academic support recommendations with deterministic rule-based fallbacks for reliable demo behavior. The prototype documents a future AMD Developer Cloud deployment path using vLLM/Deepseek on MI300X hardware once credits are approved.
10 May 2026