Regional Science & Technology Week
Week six.
Our week started encoding the lists given by the schools containing the information of the students and teacher who attended the RSTW event. Me, Marelle, Vincent encoded the list of the students and Janis, Karen, Marla cut the barcode stickers. Some students already registered online so it was less hassle but, the real problem was identifying their age, sex, and affiliation 😂. We had to search them on their social media accounts hoping they have their birthdays on their profile.
Karen and Janis had another interview about the process of the APP since the process was a little bit complicated, especially when it comes to the format of the APP. We clarified that there is this form called PPMP which is very crucial in process of creating the APP.
The first day of the event was chaotic. We lifted 3 computers and 2 printers for the registration. While setting up the router we picked up the wrong router, it was broken. After a minute or so, students were arriving; tricycles, jeepneys, and buses full of students. Fortunately, sir Chad arrived and brought the right router. While setting up the connection, the registration proceeded. The participants wrote their information on the registration sheet provided by Ma’am Leni. We were then divided into two groups, me, marelle, and marla managed the web-based registration while the others transferred the data from the registration sheet to the registration system. We were doing our respective jobs while attending to the needs of the participants like handing out flyers, putting the barcode sticker to the IDs, and giving instructions. The first day was really a mess, crowd after crowd, wrong barcodes were given, wrong data were entered 😂. Since there were several mistakes entered in the system and the only way of fixing that at that time was to manually edit the data in the database. Sir Chad gave me the authorization to manage the database and I asked if I can alter some code in the system and he agreed. I made a feature where it can fix all the entered data which were wrong so that anyone who has access to the system can fix it, but I finished it the next day. After finishing the code, the process became a bit smooth compared to the first day. On the last day we were all given tokens of appreciation *wine 🍷*.
The event was a great experience and fun for all of us. It was a great way of letting us experience that work is not bound to the four corners of an office. That’s it for this week, ciao 🤘👋
