Abhiram Devarapalli (Palau, Bureau of Tourism) Abhi deployed a new database application that tracks boat and tour operator licenses for the Bureau of Tourism in the Republic of Palau, an island country located in the western Pacific Ocean. The Bureau of Tourism, responsible for establishing Palau’s National Tourism Master Plan and implementing and enforcing the regulatory frameworks of the tourism industry, wanted to simplify the annual process for granting licenses to the country’s tour boat operators. The existing process was awkward, requiring paper forms which were then entered into a spreadsheet. The CMU student created an online database with data entry forms, migrated the existing e

Caitlyn Low and Vrinda Gupta (Palau, Ministry of Education, MOE) Caitlyn and Vrinda deployed a new Student Information System (SIS) application and a new data reporting tool for the Ministry of Education in the Republic of Palau, an island country located in the western Pacific Ocean. Caitlyn Low Vrinda Gupta The Ministry of Education (MOE), responsible for the public school system and the national educational curricula, wanted to replace their outdated student information system (SIS) used for tracking student demographic data, enrollments, grades and other academic information. Also, the creation of annual and ad hoc reports was very time consuming for the MOE teachers and staff. One of t