PJAS.net
// December 3rd, 2009 // Portfolio
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The Problem: The Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science (PJAS) is an organization that gets middle school and high school students actively engaged in science research. They host regional and state-wide meetings annually to allow students to present their work. Historically, students had to type (with a typewriter!) their forms and give them to their sponsors. The sponsors then collected the forms, proofread them, and passed them on to the regional director. There was a lot of paperwork and information was slow to be distributed to the key stakeholders.
The Solution: PJAS uses the website I created to collect student research project registration data, distribute current forms, and dynamically determine what forms are required for individual projects.
Sponsors (usually the student’s teacher) can then view the project information, make changes, and approve the project.
Finally, the students project information is sent to the regional directors.
The site also allows judges to register online and receive the necessary information in an automated fashion.
The Technology: Built in PHP using MySQL. Adobe Acrobat was used to create editable PDFs.