The new National Scholarships and Awards website is a major update to Engaged Learning’s competitive awards web presence. The new site will replace the aging IUCARE website developed by yours truly back in 2013. The new site features major visual improvements and countless accessibility updates–in fact, it meets all accessibility guidelines available through our automated tests.
Connecting Students with Award Opportunities
The previous website (IUCARE) hosted a static excel file listing national award opportunities for students. The new nsa website features a searchable, filterable interface for finding award opportunities by interest, citizenship requirement, class level, and applicant GPA.
The new NSA website’s interface is powered by Airtable, which provides a spreadsheet-like interface for updating and maintaining data, but produces structured data feeds that OVPUE IT can transform into web applications. This is the first implementation of Airtable in a production application for OVPUE IT. The shift from Excel to Airtable means we can give students a much richer experience while keeping the update process as simple as it had been with the Excel solution that was in use on the previous site.
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