It can be difficult for incoming students to know how to navigate their way through school. There are many questions that arise from this. For the first time, incoming college students are all alone and have to be on a certain time somewhere they never been before to go to their college classes. How do you remember the different buildings? Or where do you decide to go to eat? Not knowing where to go to meet new people or how to get involve, students feel lost. Students don’t have the same parenting support as in high school. Over 21 million students feel like this when they go to college. GPS Campus gives college students the opportunity to navigate to their classes, discover nearby businesses, navigate to their friends, and look-up events while going around campus with the tip of their fingertips.
The mobile app already launched the University of Illinois at Chicago and we want to expand to every university in the country, even to other universities across the world. This app could be accessible to every college student. They have over two hundred downloads and has six local businesses using their services.
The idea came from three college students competing in Big Sell Purdue Entrepreneur competition. The team was one of the finalist and knew they were on something big. From there on they competed in other entrepreneurship competitions to fund the business. All three founders are Latino first generation students and from low income families. Now they are trying to make the app accessible to every college student. They have started a Kickstarter to raise funds.
