A&T students have developed a new app called Aggiesland that helps students locate parties.
Aggiesland allows students to find parties and social events on and off campus.
Everette Slocum came up with this idea during his freshman year. When Slocum was on the track team and he developed a crew for Aggiesland with some of his teammates. The vision expanded with the development team.
The app also provides users with maps of campus with geographic locations, the option to promote businesses, and check available bus routes.
Neejbeah Reeves, a computer science student, is the programmer for the app. He developed the actual application, and Slocum did the graphics. Keenan and Kendrick Smith helped push the idea as well. Juanita Weaver, now graduate, helped fund the app.
New teammates were added once they realized they needed a connection with the clubs and parties. Brandon Jackson, Jeffery Lewis, and Sydni Cobb helped bring that connection.
Slocum said that this was something they wanted to do. They saw a need and decided to fill it.
The app was originally released on Jan. 16, 2014 for iOS devices only. The Android app is still being worked on. Reeves has come across a few complications when it comes to coding an app for Android. Coding an app for Android and iOS are completely different.
When talking about the future of the app Slocum said, “We see this app being something of the norm that you would use on a daily basis, pretty much…a Yahoo for college students in a sense.” He sees it being used during new student orientation, at clubs, and even at the GTA bus station.
Thus far, creating Aggiesland has only cost about $400.
Keenan Smith, one of the masterminds that helped push this project, saw this app as an innovation. He stressed how it is changing the way that young people connect on campus since today’s society is technologically driven.
Smith said, “This app gives me something that college, the education system, couldn’t provide. It gives me a sense of worth and power about myself, and it gives me the opportunity to actually explore into my imagination. This entrepreneurial route is empowering. It is empowering to work with my peers not even out of college yet.”
It is available via iOS 7 and will be made available for Android users soon.
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- Taylor Young, Register Reporter