Bowdoin Students Build RMH Homebase: Volunteer Database and Calendar Software

The Ronald McDonald House of Portland, Maine staff and Bowdoin College students created a collaborative, community-building project modeled and guided by a group of computing faculty and open source proponents at Trinity College, Wesleyan University, and Connecticut College. Allen Tucker, professor at Bowdoin College, organized a group of four students to create volunteer management software to suit the needs of the Ronald McDonald House in Portland, Maine. The achieved goal was for the students to create and build useful software that will replace the countless handwritten volunteer calendars and paperwork to manage, track and schedule the 300 plus volunteers at the Ronald McDonald House.

The local Ronald McDonald House project was supported by Bowdoin College's Information Technology Department, Dean for Academic Affairs, Community Services Resource Center and Allen Tucker.

With the project complete and the new software accessible on the new RMH website, the Ronald McDonald House of Portland, Maine would like to extend grateful appreciation for the hard work and dedication by Allen Tucker, Ralph Morelli and to Bowdoin College, especially students Oliver Radwan, Maxwell Palmer, Nolan McNair, and Taylor Talmage for their tireless efforts to create this incredibly beneficial software.