Before this hackathon started, I knew I wanted to make something deployable, something that any user, even you can use right now. Our problem statement? “How might we design AI-powered solutions that help local and multilingual communities in Singapore assess information credibility, understand context, and make informed decisions — especially during times of uncertainty?”

Our team built a Telegram bot that analyses text, images, audio and video for likely harmful signals. We used locally-trained SEA-LION Guard model for deterministic content detection and ADK-based agent pipelines with Gemini API. However, the journey isn’t over. Future iterations include: group chat invocations, context files using Firecrawl for web-scraping as well as increased security and privacy protections.

I would like to thank the mentors from ClickHouse for validating and enhancing our AI-native workflow and to the organisers at GeeksHacking for volunteering all their time, energy and effort into making such an amazing event!

– Gemini Live Agent Challenge –
Being new to this tech scene, I wanted to jumpstart my portfolio (feels like a taboo saying this) – by extending my project in Gemini Live Agent Challenge. I learnt much of Google Cloud Tech through their YouTube channel. I joined Google’s ADK developer workshops. Watched countless videos on Computer Vision and the way Google’s way-back-home multimodal agent workshop was held changed how I thought about building AI.

Conclusion: This is my starting journey. I want to go on to build projects that I’m passionate about (it might sound like a stretch..) like physics – how elliptic integrals work? compliant mechanisms – how can we compute them? maths – is there a way to generalise quartic factorisation identities for depressed quartic polynomials? However, I think what I’m lacking is a mentor – a technical one. I have embarked on YouthTech’s open-source 6-month commitment programme to hone my skills in open-source contributions, Access Singapore’s commitment to bettering generations of youths. Contact me at: https://linkedin.com/in/lohjohnray or on Slack at @lohjo_