Teacher Alert
Joseph Clark, Rolland Muzeya, Joshua Hagan, Dillon Hassing
Public educators are often faced with contentious and potentially dangerous situations in their classrooms. Distressed students threaten, curse, and even brandish weapons at teachers. This is something that happens in classrooms of all student ages, even elementary schools. Teachers are often unable to access traditional communication methods such as cellphones or intercom buttons to request assistance during these situations because the teacher can't take their attention off the student for even a moment. In this project, we implement a proof-of-concept device for teachers to be able to use to call for help when they are in distress and cannot access their phone. This device will utilize the ESP32 MCU and the Twilio API to send text messages to school administrators’ phones. We also implement a web application that will allow the updating of these schedules, registering devices, and data analysis for administrators. This contributes a unique system allowing educators to call for help while maintaining their focus on a contentious situation.
Joseph Clark graduated from Fort Mill High School in Fort Mill, SC, in 2014. After high school, Joseph joined the United States Marine Corps and served for five years. Joseph is a double major in mathematics and computer information systems. His achievements include serving as a teaching assistant for Math 121, working as a peer tutor, and presenting undergraduate research in mathematics and computer information systems at multiple locations during his time at Lander.
Joshua Hogan graduated from Ninety Six High School in Ninety Six, SC, in 2020. From there he went immediately to college at Lander University. Joshua is a software development major with a minor in mathematics. He has been working with Lander’s ITS Department since August of 2022 on top of his classes and participating in extracurricular activities. After graduating Joshua plans to get a job in a software development or IT related field.
Rolland Muzeya graduated from Mazowe Boys High School in Harare, Zimbabwe. He is a senior computer information systems major with a software development emphasis, and minors in mathematics and cybersecurity. His achievements include working as a computer repair technician on campus, presenting undergraduate research in computer information systems, and he will be joining BlackRock as a Software Engineer in the fall of 2024.
Dillon Hassing graduated from Nation Ford High School in Fort Mill, SC, in 2017. Dillon joined the SC National Guard in 2018 before starting at Lander University. Dillon is pursuing a computer information systems degree with a minor in cybersecurity. He has been a student worker for Lander’s tech crew since 2021.