The last two weeks leading up to the National Youth Gathering were a little insane. I think they’re pretty well wrapping things up so I can look back now and laugh about the whole process. The quick story is that we decided to turn the admission counselors laptops into web servers so they could run a whole website without “the internets”. The problem is, Windows is not the best platform to run a server on. So I had to trouble shoot the process about 35 times. (The last one being over the phone after they were in Florida). But we got it all working!

Students were greeted with a flash movie of about 20 of Drew’s famous pictures of the University throughout all seasons and activities. At any time, students could interrupt the movie to fill out a form requesting more information about the university–including requesting that Comet add them to facebook or myspace. When they submit the form, it resets to the flash movie.

All the info is stored on a flat file on the laptops and we will be able to load them into our system when the counselors get back.

It looks great and is even a little fun. I’m just blown away that the biggest hassle in the whole process was beating Windows into submission!

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