May 12, 2006
Students Designed Databases to Help Red Cross Coordinate Hurricane Volunteers
After Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, the Red Cross found itself overwhelmed with volunteers wanting to help out.
In fact, before two students from Millsaps College, in Mississippi, came to the rescue, the charity was trying to organize the thousands of volunteers with pen and paper.
As course work for a computer-science class, the students developed online databases that allowed the Red Cross to register the volunteers and communicate with them.
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