Posts by Greg Alcorn

We have a huge, regional waiting list for ApSeed Touchpads. Double our current distribution. That’s a record. Speaking of records and milestones. Here are ten more: We are now over 26,000 children served or in process. Direct feedback from parents/families is energizing!! 96% use the ApSeed Pre-K Touchpad. 94% say it helps their child learn.…

The Kindergarten Assessment can be scary. Imagine being four years old, sitting in an adult chair and having a stranger ask you fifty questions. Oh, and your parent(s) are required to wait in the parking lot! Welcome to school, right? ApSeed is going the extra mile to help each child prepare for this educational gauntlet.…

Since receiving our public funding (thank you Rep. Harry Warren), we have been hustling. Here are some specific actions: We have started producing 10,000 Seedling touchpads and headsets. The headsets are new this year. Thank you to Head Start in Salisbury for this recommendation. One of our application developers (RV AppStudios) has agreed to customize…

Pictured Kat Berrier, President, and CEO Jeff Bays, Director of Development   Celebrating your birthday, painting pictures, playing sports, shopping for clothes, and making friends are all rites of passage. Children at foster homes often do not experience all these, but at American Children’s Home (ACH) they do. In 1925 ACH was built. They produced…

Test scores help to evaluate the group of students who use the Seedlings with those students who do not use the Seedlings. Also, the testing shows the changes/progress of each group. The testing periods are Winter, and Spring Fall. General progress is expected with the 4k student as the year progresses.With our Seedling touchpads, we measure…

Looks like we are stepping back from state funding. The latest North Carolina budget does not include the ApSeed Pilot Program. Bummer, but we are not giving up!! We will regroup, revise and revisit Raleigh during the short session in early 2022. Our Seedling is a Touchpad with apps that “go to sleep” after twenty…

If Apseed was a child, she would be in Kindergarten today.  Five years ago, on May 26th, ApSeed was introducing sixty (60) Seedlings to the Wiley Lash and Fleming Head Start locations.  The 2016 Seedling was an Amazon Kindle with a rinky-dink protective cover and an unsolvable 45-day kill switch buried deep in its money-making…

ApSeed Education borrows GCS model to reach parents. I always wanted to start a community shed.  A place where the neighborhood could store those tools and toys you only use occasionally.  Things like pressure washers, luggage racks, chain saws, nose hair trimmers – all the things that could be purchased once and shared by all. …