INTEX

 Information Systems students at BYU have the opportunity to participate in an end-of-the-semester competition and project called INTEX. It is a weeklong project where groups of 4 students have the chance to incorporate all the knowledge and skills that we learned during the semester in each of our classes to create a website that solves a real-life industry problem. In addition to creating a website, we also write a report and present our solutions to judges at the end of the week. This semester, the problem to solve was for the BYU archaeology department. BYU archaeology digs for mummy remains in Egypt; they find all sorts of artifacts and mummy remains, and the researchers needed an effective way to record and keep track of all the data they find. We created a website to enable researchers to enter in a variety of data from their archaeology digs; we designed our website to store this data in a database that can be accessed from anywhere in the world that is then displayed in an organized way for both researchers and the public to view. My team and I also incorporated cybersecurity into our website and database to ensure both data accessibility and integrity.