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Every year, hundreds of thousands of high school seniors tackle the challenge of finding the "right" college, the living and learning environment in which they will spend their next four years. In Throughout the process of finding the right schoolfit, prospective college students frequently travel to schools in order to take campus tours, attend information sessions, and sit in on classes. However, it is often extremely difficult to plan a trip to a certain geographic area and find schools to visit besides the one or two that the student is familiar with in this region that the student may also be interested in attending. Parents and guidance counselors can also be heavily involved in the search process. Together, students, families, and counselors must identify candidate schools that make sense for a student based on his or her interests and strengths. Students and their families plan trips, often hoping to explore multiple colleges in a single trip while taking in the sights and sounds of the area. From
The process of planning a college trip can be challenging and frequently requires accessing a variety of websites and sources to complete every step from identifying schools of interest within a given geographic area to making travel arrangements. Often times, students will travel to a far city to visit one school on their list, the process of planning a college trip can be challenging and frequently requires accessing a variety of websites. Students and parents must and to make the trip worthwhile parents will hope to include other possible schools in this same trip. Yet there are no resources to match certain school criteria as well as a certain city or region of the country to find similar schools to visit. Once the school list has finally been solidified, students and parents must also balance travel logistics and other time constraints, such as campus tour and information session schedules, during the time-consuming process of designing their college trip itineraries.
# minimal knowledge of the geographic area, lack of consistency in college websites, and
# (for the student, parents, guidance counselors or anyone else involved in the college process).
# School tour and information session times are not consistent across college websites and are not available from centralized information sourcesHowever, none of this information is easily accessible or efficient to find leading to frustration, confusion and wasted opportunities.
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Ice Geckos-GR1 Analysis
Ice Geckos-GR2 Designs
Ice Geckos-GR3 Paper Prototyping
Ice Geckos-GR4 Computer Prototype
Ice Geckos-GR5 Implementation
Ice Geckos-GR6 User Testing