May Day

The gifted expo stuff seems to have calmed down, and here's hoping, because the expo is just around the corner.

All in all, I believe the form was a big success. I discovered some flaws, which I can address for next year, but I'm going to list them here so I have a reference for next year.

Bugs:
For whatever reason, the Title of the project field was limited to a certain length. When people put in a title that was longer than that, it would totally reject their record. I figured it out, because I was putting in the student records which the database ignored and I kept thinking "Wow, this is a long title" "Wow, another long title"

Possible reasons that the database limited the length:
1) I'm a schmo and I made it that way unintentionally.
2) Frontpage is a schmo and did it randomly
3) Since I used the variable name "Title" it has some preconceived notions that it should be a certain length.
4) Something else entirely.

Functionality changes:
I should make the database capitalize first and last names, and THEN combine them, so that I can use them as LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME, and FIRSTNAME LASTNAME.

I should also tell people that the capitalization doesn't matter anywhere but in the abstract, because numerous times students would enter their abstract twice because they forgot to capitalize everything.

Added features:

I'm going to have to add an easy way to select and enter multiple mentors.

I would also like to have a way to review and edit all of the abstracts by the students, so not as much needs to happen on our end.