FieldTripMe™ vs TripSync360

Strictly for the duration of any school excursion, the FieldTripMe™ app provides teachers with the option to track students’ locations, helps navigate all participants through the trip, delivers teachers' learning points and activities along the way, alerts teachers to checkpoints reached and boundaries crossed and provides a secure means of messaging – solely between teachers and students. During the planning phase, teachers use the FieldTripMe™ website to set-up and manage all aspects of a field trip, share information with their administrators and plan learning experiences for their students. For the duration of the trip, the app provides teachers with the option to track students’ locations, helps navigate all participants through the trip, delivers teachers' learning points and activities along the way, alerts teachers to checkpoints reached and boundaries crossed and provides a secure means of messaging – solely between teachers and students. Parents/guardians use the FieldTripMe™ website to register their students, learn about upcoming trips, complete permission forms and even make payment for all trip expenses. When an educator is able to extend their lesson beyond the bounds of a school, a higher level of cultural, historical, mathematical, linguistic and scientific enlightenment can begin. Such limitless learning immerses students in the real world and creates moments that evolve into passion and vocation. With both a school administrator and a Spanish teacher on our team, we share a clear educational philosophy: in order for students to grow into globally aware citizens, they must experience as much of life as possible while empowering themselves with the gift of knowledge. We believe that the most effective way to bring the world to students is to bring students into the world – and do so in the safest, most rewarding way possible. Guiding students outside of the classroom has always been a daunting challenge, but never more so than today. Despite having the most detail-driven plan, a field trip can still result in an unfulfilling venture or – in the worst case – an unsafe situation … we've all read the headlines. So to put our educational principles into practice, our educators teamed with a developer to help all involved in the field trip process – students, parents/guardians, teachers and administrators – achieve a better outcome. The result is FieldTripMe™. Students with smartphones use the FieldTripMe™ app during the defined hours of the trip to follow the planned route and know their teacher's or chaperone's locations. They have access to their teacher's supporting files, factoids and activities to make direct, in-the-moment connections between what they're living and what they're learning. At any time during the trip, a student can alert their teacher or chaperone to a potentially dangerous situation or request immediate assistance ... all through the FieldTripMe™ app (phone numbers are never exchanged) and only for the duration of the trip (contact concludes when the trip ends). We're happy to invite you to a safer, smarter, more organized way to field trip!

TripSync keeps everyone on the same page during a school field trip — organizers, chaperones, and parents — without the chaos of group texts, scattered emails, or last-minute phone calls. Built specifically for school field trips, TripSync gives the trip organizer one place to plan the day, the chaperones a simple way to share updates from the road, and parents the peace of mind of knowing where their child's group is and how things are going. — WHAT YOU CAN DO — For organizers • Set up a trip with stops, groups, and a student roster • Invite chaperones and parents by email • Watch the trip unfold in real time from the trip feed • Keep optional health notes attached to a student so chaperones have what they need For chaperones • See the students assigned to your group • Post photos and updates to the trip feed • Check in at each stop so parents know where the group is • Record headcounts at a glance • Message the trip organizer or a parent privately For parents • Follow the trip feed for your child's class • See your child's chaperone and groupmates • Know which stop the group is at right now • Message your child's chaperone directly if you need to — DESIGNED FOR SCHOOLS — • No GPS tracking. Check-ins are the names of stops the organizer set up (e.g. "Visitor Center"), not coordinates. Children are never tracked on a map. • No ads. No third-party advertising. No tracking SDKs. • Children do not have accounts. Only adults — staff, chaperones, and parents — sign in. • Student information is visible only to the organizer of the trip, the chaperone of the student's group, and the student's own parents or guardians. • Photos are stored privately and are only visible to participants of the trip they were posted in. — PRIVACY FIRST — TripSync is built around the idea that a school trip app shouldn't be hoovering up data. We don't collect location, contacts, calendar, microphone, or browsing activity. We don't sell or share personal information. Read our full privacy policy at https://surfcx.github.io/tripsync/privacy-policy.html. — WHO IT'S FOR — TripSync is intended for adults: teachers and other school staff who organize trips, parent volunteers who chaperone, and parents/guardians of children participating in a trip. Schools and organizers are responsible for obtaining the necessary parental consent before adding student information. Questions or feedback? Email us at neelagiri@outlook.com.