MCC Scheduler

Overview

MCC Scheduler is a calendar aggregator for the University of Oregon Multicultural Center student organizations. Event data for the MCC's 30+ student orgs was fragmented across as many calendars; officers now sync their Outlook calendars once, and students browse all MCC events in a single place and subscribe to personalized ICS feeds filtered by club, event type, or any combination — so their own calendar app stays up to date automatically.

I led the 4-person team as the capstone for CS 422: Software Methodology (Winter 2026) — and I had an unusual vantage point on the problem: I've served as the MCC's External Lead since 2024, so the fragmentation this solves was my day job. It was built as a real deployment rather than a class exercise: custom domain and email, handed off to MCC staff, and in active use by a base of 500+ students and 30+ administrators with sub-200ms response times and a framework for ongoing performance monitoring.

Architecture

A TypeScript monorepo, deployed across two hosts:

• frontend/ — a Vite + React 18 + Tailwind SPA (Vercel), the browse-and-subscribe UI.
• server/ — an Express REST API plus an ICS sync cron (Render): node-ical parses each club's Outlook feed into a normalized Postgres schema, and ical-generator exports the filtered subscription feeds students consume.
• Supabase (PostgreSQL, 3NF) for storage; Resend for transactional email (account approval, password reset).

The repo also carries an Obsidian-style docs wiki (docs/) and operational runbooks (plans/) for deployment and club-officer onboarding.

Roles

Club officers connect a calendar and manage their org; students discover events and build a personalized subscription; the feed stays live without any manual re-import.

In production

Live at uomcc.org — a spring-term month on the dashboard, every event synced straight from the orgs' own Outlook calendars.