For those of you who missed BuzzU, a new website is up and running. Please register yourself and tell your teammates about FIRST College Connect:
Enjoy!
Perhaps adding a registry of colleges with teams and who to contact about joining the team would be useful. There are many people here at RIT who just never manage to track us down.
Matt
That could be done.
Everybody, keep posting ideas. In a few days i’ll send this link to the website group so they can make the changes.
Thanks!
What if you screw up and put the wrong graduation year, like me?? :ahh:
*Originally posted by David Kelly *
**What if you screw up and put the wrong graduation year, like me?? :ahh: **
For now, you can email your request to [email protected] (or post it here), and I’ll change it manually.
I’ll try to implement some way to change Graduation year and college this weekend. Suggestions on how best to do this are appreciated. I was thinking of when you sign up emailing a password, and then being able to go to an account page and change anything if you need to. The less obstrusive the better.
looks good so far… except it would be nice to change ones information if a change in school occured.
… registered!
For now I put my own contact information onto your list, but it would be great if you could have a list of teams already sponsored by universities, like the team we have sponsored at the University of Arizona. A link to a team’s site would also be nice. All in all, great job so far!!! 
Also, it will be nice to be able to see a complete list of every college with who’s where, instead of having to look up each college at a time.
Could be event better if that list can be sorted by college name alphabetically, or by team numbers, or by student name.
*Originally posted by Ken L *
**Also, it will be nice to be able to see a complete list of every college with who’s where, instead of having to look up each college at a time.Could be event better if that list can be sorted by college name alphabetically, or by team numbers, or by student name. **
Sounds exactly like a searchable database :rolleyes:
I’d love to sign up but my school’s not on the list!
Its Simon’s Rock College in Great Barrington Mass.
Thanks,
~Gabriel
*Originally posted by Gabriel *
**I’d love to sign up but my school’s not on the list!Its Simon’s Rock College in Great Barrington Mass.
Thanks,
~Gabriel **
Sorry about that, my parsing script seems to have failed on Colleges with an apostrophe. The school is now listed though!
Excellent job Erin. Keep up the good work.
I just contribute some of the ideas… thank my team for implementing them.
Andy Triboletti rocks!
(so does the NU-TRONS website team)
No community colleges on the list??
Arghh… lol
no jc’s thats not cool!!! lol:ahh:
how about mine Santa Monica College? (smc) in CA:yikes:
No cc… :-/
Even with 60k+ students, Northern Virginia CC isn’t listed.
Wetzel
Hi Erin,
Here are some suggestions:
(1) Sort the school names alphabetically! They appear to be kind of sorted but not very well at all. It took me about 2 minutes to find Cornell on the NY list, and then another 1 minute to find RIT.
(2) It would be nice to be able to see the entire list at once, like BuzzU allowed you to do. (of course, if a school has no people, don’t display on master list).
(3) Name and email and graduation year is boring. I like to see more information, such as what team each person was on in high school, nickname, profile. Basically if you click on the name you get more information.
(4) The links (red on blue) on the main page clash a bit. I’d suggest orange (or any other lighter hue) on blue
(5) This needs to be advertised very well for it to work at all. You should have FIRST send the link out in an email blast, if possible.
Otherwise, great job! Finally there is some way to get in contact with other FIRSTers at colleges.
- Patrick
Thank you all for your input, in a few weeks when all the debugging is done we’ll definately make this a well advertised site.
Keep the ideas coming!
(the users are the best at coming up with the problems, thanks for your help)
*Originally posted by Wetzel *
**No cc… :-/Even with 60k+ students, Northern Virginia CC isn’t listed.
Wetzel **
That’s huge!
I’ve added around 1100 Community Colleges to the database.
Good luck finding some FIRST comrades if you’re looking to start a team. (shouldn’t be too hard with that many folks 
)
edit: Also fixed the bogus ordering problem, and now allows viewing colleges by state.
I am depressed, yet ellated in some strange way, to be the first person to register in Delaware.