COPHS/Barnabas Task

BARNABAS TASK

SPRING 2018

COPHS/Barnabas Task 2018

About the Organization

"The mission of Barnabas Task is an expression of compassion to transform communities by equipping, empowering, and encouraging. The message of Barnabas Task is the transforming power of the gospel of Jesus Christ.  We desire to be people of influence with a significant message of Christ the Center. Through training and serving, our goal is to assist people with problem solving, providing simple transferrable principles and resource assessment which result in multiplication and change in other communities through local initiative. We facilitate medical and training teams who provide critical care and preventive health education."1

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About the Project

The team has taken over a well-established application that has been passed down from previous semesters. The primary objectives for this semester revolve around enhancing the application's capabilities. One major goal is the implementation of a statistical functionality designed to monitor and manage the data requested by the COPHS team. Another task involves putting the finishing touches on the patient directory functionality, ensuring its seamless operation. In addition to these goals, the team addressed a series of minor issues to optimize the overall performance of the application and enhance its user-friendliness.

Science and Engineering for Social Good Research Presentation

                         

 

During February 9th-11th, a team of EPICS (Patrick Burns) and pharmacy students (Sarah Lenahan and Courtney Cox) accompanied by faculty advisors Dr. Linos and Dr. Devine attended the "Science and Engineering for Social Good" conference organized by the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement (NCSCE) and hosted at Georgia Tech University in Atlanta Georgia. The students gave a presentation entitled "Learning without Borders: A Qualitative Exploration of a Service-Learning Collaboration between Healthcare and Computer Science Students in the Dominican Republic". The team also prepared a poster displaying more details about a joint research project and demonstrated an iPad app developed by EPICS students for use by the Dominican Republic outreach program and clinics.

Our Team

Caleb Nixon: Computer science major

Patrick Burns: Software engineering major

Patrick Bagnuolo: Software engineering major

Alexandra Hansma: Computer science and mathematics majors

Megan Samuelson: Computer science and mathematics majors

Mary Hermann: Software engineering major