Building a Real-Time Volunteer Sync Engine with...

As a first-year CS student, I’ve noticed a recurring theme in many management systems: they feel static. Most volunteer portals require manual refreshes or heavy API polling. During a live event, that "lag" can lead to confusion. I wanted to build an architecture that feels live. The Core Concept The goal was simple: Admins scan a physical QR ID of a volunteer, and their status (Free/Busy/Assigned) changes instantly across every connected dashboard in the organization—without a single page refre