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including Glass Door.com. It's

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time for eye on education. Well,

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for a kid there's nothing quite

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like that sound of the final

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school bell. For parents though

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it could sometimes trigger

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stress if their kids don't have

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anything to do after school.

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Now, Indianapolis public schools

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families have a new option when

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it comes to getting their kids

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involved in extracurricular

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activities. IPS partnering with

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Indianapolis based after school

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HQ to give parents a new tool to

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access what's out there for

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their kids to do once the school

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day ends. And for more on how

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the program works and the

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partnership pleased to be joined

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by after school HQ CEO and

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cofounder Daria Henry. Welcome

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to the program.

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>> Thanks for having me.

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>> After school HQ, a sass

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platform essentially that's been

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around for five years or so.

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Talk about the model and what

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after school HQ is all about.

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>> Yeah. What we really do, we

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focus on getting more kids in

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our school programs to enable

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them to really explore and find

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their passion and purpose. But

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our platform is really simply

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about enabling schools and other

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youth serving organizations, put

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their programs online. Makes it

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much easier for parents to find,

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register and pay for programs.

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>> What I thought was

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interesting, Indiana is the

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fourth lowest state in the

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country for after school

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participation. That surprised

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me.

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>> Yeah. Definitely surprising.

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It's a number that we want to

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have an impact on. What we found

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is that wherever we deploy our

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software we have seen an

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increase in registrations and

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it's because we're just removing

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all the friction that's involved

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and making it easy for parents

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to know what programs are

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available.

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>> What are the problems that

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exist? You talk about the

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friction points. Is it a lot of

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paper, a lot of inefficiencies I

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guess?

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>> Yeah. That's really it.

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Right. We have paper fliers

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going out, right. Let's be real.

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Like a lot of these fliers go in

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our kids' back packs. You don't

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see it. What happens is you

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aren't aware of it and you can't

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get to get it done. We're always

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on our phones. And we get so

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much done electronically. So we

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need to get this part of society

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right. Education, get that moved

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up to using electronic and youth

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services.

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>> Let's talk about your

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partnership with Indianapolis

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public schools. Obviously a

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major school system here in

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Indiana. Talk about the

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partnership and what it means.

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>> Yeah. First of all, it means

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a lot to me.

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>> I was a product of IPS. It's

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a chance for me to give back to

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basically, you know, give other

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students the opportunity to do

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what I did when I was in IPS. I

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got to participate in after

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school programs. That's how I

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found my passion of

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entrepreneurship technology and

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so this is the chance to give

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back with impact. We're going to

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be deploying this to all schools

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in IPS. And then ultimately we

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hope to have that impact and be

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able to measure what that is in

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a few years.

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>> Is it especially important

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coming out of Covid here and the

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learning loss that happened

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during that period of time as

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well?

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>> Yeah. Exactly. That's 100%

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it. There was so much learning

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loss. Kids were virtual. It's

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not the optimal learning

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experience, so IPS is investing

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in their students and staff and

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ultimately in our communities

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and so we're just wanting to

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take advantage of that and give

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our kids the opportunities to

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learn.

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>> Yeah. After school HQ

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expanding with the big

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partnership with Indianapolis

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public schools. I know you're

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expanding outside of Indiana,