A Crisis in Education

Nationally 25% of students fail to graduate high school on time

• In Oregon 32% of high school students will not graduate on time.

• In some Portland schools as many as 46% of students are not graduating on time.

• Many will never graduate

• This is a major problem in our community

“ Oregon’s high school graduation rate fourth worst in nation.” Betsy Hammond, The Oregonian Nov 28, 2012

High school dropouts

-- More likely to be unemployed

-- Earn less money

More likely to go to jail

Reasons

According to High school counselors

students do not keep track of:

• Attendance

• Grades

• Credits

They are not motivated or empowered

• Provides a single source for:• Attendance

• Grades

• Credits/GPA

• Schedules

• Contact lists for information & moral support

• Graduaide also…• Provides mobile alerts• Integrates with Student Information Systems for accuracy

Graduaide

Graduaide Demo

http://youtu.be/Prsz9oHFpx4

Market Size

7.4 million

students have smartphones

3.7 million are Android users

We will expand market later

We Beat The Competition

Grade Tracker Plus

Assignment Planner Pro

Grade Student Organizer

Top Competitors # of Users Credit Tracker? Calculated GPA?

Grade Student Organizer 5,000-10,000 people

Yes, they offer Credit Tracker

Yes, they have calculated GPA

Assignment Planner Pro 1,000-5,000 people

No, they don't offer Credit Tracker

No, they don't have calculated GPA

Grade Tracker Plus 1,000-5,000 people

Yes, they offer Credit Tracker

No, they don't have calculated GPA

Graduaide (working with SIS companies around the country)

1,000,0001-5,000,002

Yes, we offer Credit Tracker

Yes, we have calculated GPA

We take information from a student information system making our app easier and more accurate! Graduaide also has more features!

Graduaide

Business Model

We will work with School Information Systems (SIS) like local company Grade Tree, who provided us with consultation. SIS's sell to school districts to help them manage student information, can provide us with the information Graduaide needs, and are a great way to get our app into schools.

We will sell the app for .99 cents. In 5 years we will have a revenue of 5.9 million dollars and a profit of 3.6 million dollars. Revenue - $5.9 million

Cost - $2.3 million Profit - $3.6 million

Marketing Plan

Students will buy the app at theGoogle Play app store for $.99

We will work with SIS school district customers to reach We will work with SIS school district customers to reach teachers and guidance counselors so they recommend our teachers and guidance counselors so they recommend our app, advertise on Facebook, do a story in the Oregonian, app, advertise on Facebook, do a story in the Oregonian, and use the school mailing system to spread awareness.and use the school mailing system to spread awareness.

Next Steps..

• We'll finish our app programming • Improve visual appeal: Create a cool app design

that students like• Sell our app with School Information System

companies, to make it easy for parents and students to get information on phones.

• Advertise to spread awareness when the app is available in a school

• We’ll develop Apple and Blackberry apps to reach a larger audience

Graduaide will empower students, help them graduate, and imagine a bright future!

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it, If you can dream it, you can become it!

With Graduaide we can all imagine a bright future!

Our TeamOur Company is owned by:

Jolie BrownellTinbete Daniel

Megan Mattison Alexis Mattison

Colleen AnthonyFiona Wilcox

Advisory: Portland Public School District:Jocelyn Bigay, Donald Dixon, Amy Henry

Grade Tree: Ryan Nelson, founder of SIS Grade Tree.

Teachers and Mentors: Dedrie Beardsley, Eric Betts, Cyrene Domogalla, Julie Fleischer,

Nicole Newman, Shannon Schroeder, Jim WalterGraduaide & Co. is an organization located in Portland, Oregon.