Blazer Nation: An App for Students Created by Students

The creators of the Blazer Nation app. From left to right: Jamal Simpson, Justyn Brownridge, Matthew Flannigan, Zebedee Lawton, Taray Eady. Seated: Gisele Greaux and Fania Braaf.

VALDOSTA – A team of 365bet中文 students recently created a mobile app that streamlines the process of accessing campus services. 两个月后, the Blazer Nation app already has more than 3,600 downloads for iOS and Android devices.

“The Blazer Nation app is a one-stop student hub, bringing popular campus services and other features to a student’s mobile device.” said Taray Eady, president of Blazer Nation and computer science student. “It allows students to easily access some of the most frequently used bet365亚洲官网 services such as Blazeview, 横幅, 电子邮件, the parking portal and online student accounts. It also features a campus map, Quick Contacts and Blazelist.”

The campus map uses students’ GPS location to show where they are and provides directions to different campus buildings.

“The Quick Contacts feature contains a list of departments that we 作为学生 felt were the most regularly called,伊迪解释道。. “When you click on a contact you will see their hours of operation, phone number and in some cases an 电子邮件 or sms option. We also built a new online community board that can be accessed in-app and via the web called Blazelist. It has the same concept as Craigslist, but it is only open to bet365亚洲官网 students, 教职员工. 用户可以营销事件, find housing or roommates for off-campus living and post items such as textbooks, 电子产品, 家具, 电器和更多的出售. This allows for a safer transaction between parties because you know that whoever you set an arrangement with is a part of the bet365亚洲官网 community.”

Created by students, the Blazer Nation app is intended to assist students primarily. 然而，它是对公众开放的. The app is currently available for iOS and Android devices. The creators plan to release a solution for other mobile devices such as Blackberry and Windows later this semester.

The idea to create an app was conceived after looking at various mobile services provided at other institutions. The creators explored options to meet the needs of the campus.

“We, 作为学生, know how much we wished for something like this to come along to make our lives easier,伊迪说。. “While our original plan was to start on a smaller project, we realized that we needed to build something that would be used daily by students, 教职员工. After three months of designing, coding and testing, our app was released to the public August 9th.”

Eady stressed that the team has not personally profited from the app.

“We have received support from the community to help fund promotional giveaways and tools required for the project,他说. “The only benefit we have received is the satisfaction of having provided a service to students that was not previously available.”

The Blazer Nation team includes students from the 艺术学院, College of Arts and Sciences and Langdale 工商管理学院. The team is comprised of four developers, including Eady along with Jamal Simpson, computer science student; Justyn Brownridge, computer information systems student; and Zebedee Lawton, 财经专业学生. Fania Braaf, 视觉艺术专业的学生, serves as the team’s graphic designer and Gisele Greaux, international business major and advertising and promotions minor, 是团队的营销策略.

Blazer Nation is now a student organization open to students of all majors who have an interest in programming, 平面设计与商业.  For more information about the organization, visit http://valdosta.collegiatelink.net/organization/blazernation . The Blazer Nation app can be found at http://www.theblazernation.com 和Blazelist可以在 www.blazelist.org .

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