Executive Summary
Eagle-Condor
Humanitarian is a non-profit organization based in Utah. Eagle-Condor works to
improve the ability to be self-reliant by those in South America. One of
Eagle-Condors programs involves teaching self-reliance and business skills to
those in Iquitos, Peru located in the Amazon jungle. These classes focus on basic
business skills and concepts like record keeping and understanding the
different types of cost associated with a business.
To
track the success of its program, Eagle-Condor generates both monthly and
quarterly reports that track different metrics for each of the four groups of
classes taught. Some of the metrics tracked include attendance, participation,
quiz scores on the materials, homework scores, and whether an individual was
graded. These metrics are recorded on the monthly level and then summarized on
the quarterly level.
Previously,
the monthly summary was manually summarized and recorded using multiple
calculations and copy-and-paste commands. This task could take the project
coordinator multiple hours away from other pressing tasks of running the
organization. My project both alleviates this burden and allows better tracking
of individuals work. The program grabs the monthly report files, pulls and
summarizes information from these files, summarizes the quarterly information
for each individual, and then summarizes the aggregate quarterly information.
Because of the time constraint, quarterly
data was previously only shown in the aggregate in the organization. This
project speeds the creation of this aggregate information and shows summary of
individual’s information as well. Showing the aggregate information at the
individual level allows the program to better track and work with each
participant and creating the summary electronically will allow the user to
better work with the data.
By: Gregory Kline
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