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Managing funds is a major part of the day-to-day operations of businesses, public institutions, and non-profits alike, and schools are no exception.  It can be extremely difficult for schools to track the money coming in and out on a daily basis, for both necessary functions such as utilities and building management as well as fundraising, sports teams, and other peripherals. Fortunately, a startup called ClassWallet hopes to change this unfortunate truth.  With so many individual schools as well as entire districts cutting education budgets, properly managing money that is available is becoming even more vital.  Digital payment and management is one of the major ways that monetary transactions can improve, but there has been little focus on education up to the last few years.  What ClassWallet offers, in essence, is a digital money management platform that schools can use to more easily and thoroughly track the many incoming and outgoing payments involved in every aspect of their operation. Read more »

Trying to succeed as a student athlete isn’t always just about skill on the field or on the court.  Gaining buzz and hype around your name and accomplishments is a necessity for any student athletes who want recruiters to approach them about playing on the next level.  Sometimes that means a high school athlete trying to catch the eye of collegiate athletic departments, and sometimes that means college athletes at more obscure universities looking to get attention from professional scouts.  Social media and the Internet can play a key part in the gaining the buzz student athletes need for the right people to notice them.  However, using general-use social networks such as Twitter or Facebook can have mixed results since athletes’ profiles often get lost among the immense amount of content on these sites.  Cool person in technology Patrick O’Quinn founded Awesome.Me to give student athletes a social network designed especially for them where they could garner buzz for their accomplishments without getting lost in the shuffle. Read more »