The trend data can also show which genres have generated higher attendance on average or overall. Weather information will be provided by Ray’s Weather Center, which Russell owns. The trend data that emerge from such queries can, for example, help Blue Ridge management decide whether an October concert should be moved indoors or presented outside. The management system’s user can find details such as how many people entered an event from a specific gate or get summary information such as net income for a specific event. Now, the center can record and search for information about events, bands, attendance, income, expenses and weather. This situation tended to keep the center in the dark when it came to gathering the best information for making decisions.
The new management system “will help us in our decision-making,” Emmett said after the presentation.īefore Russell’s students created the center’s new management system, Emmett said, the center worked with spreadsheets only as it planned and managed performances by artists, many known nationally or internationally, including Steep Canyon Rangers, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Lonesome River Band, The Bryan Sutton Bluegrass Band and The Quebe Sisters. “Thank you all,” Emmett told the students.
29 to Richard Emmett, program director of the Blue Ridge Music Center, and Carolyn Ward, CEO of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation. The students presented their work on Nov. Ray Russell, a professor of computer science at Appalachian State University, to observe a web-based management system that his students created for the Blue Ridge Music Center. Richard Emmett, program director of the Blue Ridge Music Center, and Carolyn Ward, CEO of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, visit a class of Dr. “Any delays from one side could cause delays on the other.” “The dynamic of different classes working on different parts of the project was incredibly similar to that of real life,” said Aaron Parker of Statesville, a Database Systems course member and a graduate student in computer science.
Russell called it “the closest I have come in 35 years of college teaching to reproducing a real work environment,” where individuals on a team each work on different tasks of a project and the progress of a project depends on each task being done properly. The work for the Blue Ridge Music Center marked the first time that his students from more than one class worked on a project together.Įxpectations for the effort were quite high. Students in classes taught by Russell often work on a major project that can be completed over the course of a semester, typically writing an application for a non-profit. The system they created, called “Blue Ridge Music Center Event Administration,” aims to streamline ticket sales, expenses and the booking of concerts for the non-profit center, which is located along the Blue Ridge Parkway near Galax, Va. Ray Russell, a professor of computer science: Client-Side Web Programming or Database Systems. BOONE, N.C.-About 75 students within Appalachian State University’s Department of Computer Science enhanced the operations of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Center this past semester by creating a web-based management system.Įach of the students involved in the project took one of two courses taught by Dr.
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