Davao Oriental State University - Banaybanay Campus produces undergraduate theses and capstone projects every year. That research is required reading for the next batch of students, but there was no single place to find it.

Research output existed, but it was effectively invisible. Papers lived with individual faculty or in campus storage, so finding prior work meant asking around. Students starting a thesis had no quick way to check what had already been done, and completed work went uncited.

The audience is faculty and students, not developers, so the interface had to stay simple enough to use without training or a help page.

Content had to be organized around how research is actually looked up — program, year, and title — rather than around file names or upload dates.

It was built during a limited internship window, so the scope had to stay small enough to ship and be handed over rather than left half-built.

Dekada is a Next.js web application that stores and serves undergraduate theses and capstone projects in one place. Papers are organized by program and year, so a student can find prior work without going through anyone. It was built during the DOrSU internship, with faculty input on how research is actually looked up, and handed over with the repository running.

200+ undergraduate theses and capstone projects archived in a single repository.

Students can find prior research on their own instead of asking faculty.

Faculty can point students at existing work rather than repeating the same guidance each term.

Replaced a manual, campus-bound process with something that stays available.

Dekada turned scattered research output into a reference students and faculty can actually use.

The build was deliberately small: one problem, solved properly, handed over in a state someone else can maintain.