The Great Leader Matching Puzzle

So this week for my job as a UA we had the pleasure of pairing 72 honors leaders together and then using their class schedules and available times putting them into class periods. Now at first this seems pretty simple and was definitely expedited by having the leaders preference who they wanted to work with but it was still a difficult task to say the least.

The first step was to see how many leaders preferenced each other first so we knew that those individuals wanted to be matched together. Then we took those matches and looked at which individuals had the fewest available times and placed them first. This sort process continued with color coordinating very flexible and very rigid leaders etc. Then we finally got to then end and figured out a solution having a couple of people move a class here or there to accommodate us. And then when we thought we had it perfect one student pointed out that they work off campus in the mornings so the class time we had put for them wouldn't work! Our dreams were crushed, but we went to work finding another solution to the problem. The color coordinating definitely helped out and after a 6 group switch each taking the place of another we were able to successfully fix the problem and have the perfect co-leader setup.

Success!

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