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Who We Are
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• Honors College students
• Honors Computer Applications
• Project utilizing what we learned
• Website with unbiased information about all
  presidential candidates in Ohio
• Why Browns vs. Steelers?

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Mission Statement
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• Provide quality, concise, and clear information
  to students without all of the media bias and
  fluff, in order to better educate the students of
  Kent State University about the issues that
  matter to them the most.
• Media focused on unnecessary things

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Project Guidelines
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• Use technology learned in class
• Self decided subject
• Must relate to the Election
• Met after class and exchanged information
• Decided to break into committees after ideas came
  together

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Committees
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• Coordinator
• Brittany
• Survey
• Nick
• Web
• Head Kevin
• Justis, Katie

Data Head Andrew Dan, Nick Research Head
Peter Andy, Kailee, Nicole, Brian, Sarah
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Committees
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• Formed committee because there were too many
  tasks to handle as one group
• More Efficient
• Formed based on interests and expertise
• Functioned individually and reported to group at
  least once a week
• Advantages efficient, work outside class, better
  communication, specific duties, responsibility
• Disadvantages decreased some members
  contributions, reliance on others

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Weekly Meetings
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• Scheduled with Dr. Steinberg
• Discuss progress and set goals
• Group met after
• Check individual progress and assign duties
• Email Cell Phones

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Facebook Group
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• Created a group
• Discussion forums
• Send messages
• Upload information and documents
• Constant updates

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Survey
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• Brainstormed on the issues
• Came up with basic format
• Consulted with Dr. Don Williams (Dean of the
  Honors College)
• Re-designed based on new opinions and guidance

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Website
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• Computer Science Major Kevin
• HTML CSS to create website
• Modified PHP script for survey
• Web space from Computer Science Dept.

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http//cgi.cs.kent.edu/knastase/election/
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Graphic Design
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• Former graphics major
• Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator
• All original work except candidate photos
• Saved as JPEG
• Kevin added text and hyperlinks

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Research
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• Divided candidates among committee
• Used candidates web-pages and a reliable sources
• Retrieved information on candidates feelings on
  issues
• Formatted and sent to Web Committee

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The IPO Model
INPUT
OUTPUT
PROCESS
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Graphs and Data
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• Integrated different software to solve the
  problem
• Searched the Internet
• Widgenie is a free data visualizer that creates
  flash animated graphs.
• Widgenie Results

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Project Grade
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• Group decides grade allocation
• Several solutions and peer grading
• Written proposal
• This is the final part

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Justis Estell

• Committee Web
• Major Computer Information Systems
• Class Sophomore

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Peter Grasso

• Committee Research
• Major Accounting
• Class Freshman

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Sarah Burdette

• Committee Research
• Major German Translation
• Class Freshmen

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Kevin Nastase

• Committee Web (Head)
• Major Computer Science
• Class Junior

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Brittany Bardin

• Committee Coordinator
• Major Accounting
• Class Freshman

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Conclusion
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• Voting Results
• Q A
• http//cgi.cs.kent.edu/knastase/election/poll/res
  ults.php?pollid15