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No-cost Pre-K educational touchpads distributed to Duplin County preschoolers

By Duplin Times North Carolina-based nonprofit ApSeed distributed 260 additional pre-K educational touchpads to Duplin County preschools free of charge at a back-to-school event on Aug. 16. ApSeed’s Executive Director Dr. Julie Morrow gave out the touchpads at the “Meet Your Teacher” night event for pre-K families at Kenansville Elementary School. Each touchpad is free…

August 2024Read More →

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Wait, wait, don’t tell me. Another record set.

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.…

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Three steps forward, no steps back

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.…

June 2023Read More →

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It’s Go Time!

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…

December 2022Read More →

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From A to Z to 123

From ApSeed to Zimbabwe children in the Mushayamunda village are learning to count! Their tribe in Zimbabwe received our Seedlings. The children have made progress beyond belief. The Mushayamunda’s sent us incredible videos. The children were learning how to count! The videos we received warmed our hearts and motivated us to push further. These children…

November 2022Read More →

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Partnering with Davidson County Children’s Home

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…

July 2022Read More →

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Union County Impresses Again

As the 2021-2022 school year comes to an end we are as excited as the children. We gain data from the Spring/End of Year Assessments and the children burst through the school doors ready for Summer. Dr. Ozzie Reynolds, our AMAZING volunteer, traveled the scenic route to South Carolina. He visited Ms. Rhonda Hollingsworth, Coordinator…

June 2022Read More →

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OUR YEAR HAS THREE SEASONS

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…

May 2022Read More →

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Two steps forward, one…

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…

December 2021Read More →

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Where Were You?

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…

May 2021Read More →

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Silver Lining?

Our latest batch of Seedlings is on the assembly line!! We have 2,500 new and improved touchpads ready for immediate distribution. The new version has great speed and resolution. Our tech genius, Erik Lipscomb, redesigned, added more memory and removed unnecessary components. As should be the case, It’s the best version ever. Stay tuned for…

February 2021Read More →

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What’s Old is New

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. …

October 2020Read More →

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