Ministry of Education in the Republic of Palau

Tom Lewkowitz (SCS/CS) & Yixin Liu (CIT/ECE)

• Created a web-based information system to manage, analyze, and report student standardized test scores across the Palau school system.
• The new system will save the Ministry months of work each year. Reports on test data that used to take the Ministry until late fall to produce were ready for an education conference in July.

Ministry of Health in the Republic of Palau

Katherine Edgar (CFA/Design)

• Helped the Bureau of Public Health Community Advocacy Program to communicate more clearly with the public by developing a marketing / brand identity, creating standard communication templates.
• Trained staff to use advanced graphic design applications.

Mi Gyeong Koo (SCS/CS)

• Developed a standardized reporting template to extract information from databases in 9 hospital units for decision making by the Director of Hospital and Clinical Services.
• Created a new database for the hospital laboratory.

Brandon Loughery (Heinz/MAM)

• Helped the Bureau of Public Health use a Geographical Information System to support emergency planning.
• The GIS maps show the locations of homebound patients, emergency shelters, health ministry dispensaries, and potentially dangerous fuel storage locations.

Our Lady of Lourdes College Foundation in the Philippines

Si Ying Hu (CIT/ECE), Steven Elia (CIT/SCS & CS/SCS), & Sixiao Joy Liu (CIT/MechE)

• In US terms, the OLLCF is a high school / junior college. They have aspirations of creating a program in robotics. Students created a robotics curriculum, held workshops for OLLCF faculty, and created a roadmap to build a robotics program. The workshops developed the OLLCF faculties' knowledge, while also serving as a forum to discuss how to adapt the curriculum for their Filipino students.

Department of Information and Communications Technology in the Republic of Nauru

Hans Schweitzer (H&SS/IS), Richard Chen (TSB/BA)

• Drafted an Information Management Policy for the Nauran government, based on interviews of all department heads and select staff, gathered forms, observations of spreadsheets and databases used, and related work practices.
• Created a system for managing information in their fuel-rationing program.
• Defined a plan for implementing a national ID number for each Nauruan.

Department of Education in the Republic of Niue

Varun Arora (Qatar/IS), Ki Yeun Kim (MCS/SHS-Math)

• Updated One Laptop Per Child server software.
• Ran workshops for teachers on the use of the open source Moodle course management system.
• Assessed the usage of the One Lap
• Drafted policies for the use of the One Laptop Per Child laptops.