Fiddlers Jamboree Partners With Tennessee Tech To Create New Database

Smithville’s Fiddlers Jamboree has partnered with Tennessee Tech to create a new database for registration.

Board Member Ethan Shaw said as a Tech Alumnus, he knew the university had a computer science program that could help, so he reached out to professors to create the new database. He said the database is a big improvement over their old one and has helped modernize the Jamboree.

“It gives us a lot of features that we didn’t have before, which is like searching through old contestants, being able to pull metrics reporting on past years jamboree and figure out which categories have participants that we have never had before and things like that,” Shaw said. “But also kind of opens the door to future abilities.”

Shaw said he hopes that they can soon start doing pre-registration with the new database.

“If we can give the community and users an ability to pre-register for an event, then we kind of open up the doors for I think advertising and getting it out there further,” Shaw said.

Shaw said the jamboree plans to partner with Tech again in the future for further improvements and projects.

“There is the eventual plan to reach back out to the computer science program and likely get another group after we get a couple of years under our belt,” Shaw said. “To figure out the integrations, to go mobile with this and try to connect it to the website.”

Shaw said they wanted to do these things already, but the project was such a big undertaking that only about half of the original plan was completed in the first year.