LSMFT: TruantToday cutting truancy

Whats news:  Local start-up TruantToday was recently featured at NBC’s Education Nation Summit.  The company has designed an alert system for schools that lets parents know by text or e-mail when their children are not in their classroom.   The service addresses several problems simultaneously – alerting parents when kids are not in class and reducing the loss of state and federal funding for the school which is based on attendance.  This helps the community by reducing truancy, improving the graduation rate and even improving student’s performance.

TruantToday has been a participant in the Clinton Global Initiatives, California State Science Fair and will be enrolling in a TechStars camp in Colorado.

About:  TruantToday was founded in late 2010 by Zak Kukoff when Zak was a high school sophomore. TruantToday was based on Zak’s experiences in watching his teachers struggle to use clunky, confusing school software.  TruantToday believes that software made for educators should be simple and easy-to-use. Educators shouldn’t have to spend time trying to use complicated, poorly made software – they should be able to focus their time on teaching their students.

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LSMFT – GTX unveils GPS shoes for Seniors

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Whats news: GTX announced the GPS-enabled shoe received FCC clearance in September. The tracking service will be powered by GTX’s partners Omnilink and the MedicAlert Foundation. Omnilink will offer customer service and the online store that supports sales. MedicAlert will facilitate the 24/7 location-based emergency service that powers the shoes. Caretakers using the system can download an app and be alerted when a senior leaves a designated ‘geo-fenced’ area.

About: GTX Corp, a leader in enterprise 2-way GPS (Global Positioning System) real-time personal location services (PLS), was founded in 2002 and is based in Los Angeles, California with distributors in Mexico, Australia and Nepal and customers in 126 countries. GTX Corp utilizes the latest in miniaturized, low power consumption technology and offers a robust enterprise GPS and cellular location platform to track in real time the whereabouts of people, pets, and high valued assets. Answering the “where is” question through a licensing business model and providing a complete end-to-end solution of hardware, middleware, apps, connectivity and professional services, letting you know where someone or something is at the touch of a button. GTX Corp also owns and operates LOCiMOBILE, Inc which develops GPS applications for smartphones and tablets, Code Amber News Service, and Code Amber Alertag. The Company has an aggressive intellectual property strategy and owns an extensive portfolio of patents, patents pending, registered trademarks, copy rights and URL’s.