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Connecting Mentors and Mentees for Lifelong Success
Take Stock in Children (TSIC) is a non-profit organization that empowers low-income students by providing them with mentors, success coaches, and scholarships. We developed a robust mobile application to streamline these connections and track student progress.
About
TSIC (Take Stock)
Take Stock in Children (TSIC) is a Florida-based non-profit organization that provides low-income students with a mentor, college success coach, and a college scholarship. They help students break the cycle of poverty through education.
The platform connects volunteer mentors with students to build strong relationship and ensure educational success. Their multi-faceted approach, combined with long-term support, results in graduation rates that significantly exceed national averages for similar demographics.
The Challenge.
View AppBuilding a seamless connection platform for mentors and students to ensure consistent support and tracking of educational progress.
TSIC manages thousands of mentor-mentee relationships across Florida. The organization needed a digital solution that would simplify communication, automate scheduling, and allow real-time tracking of student milestones to ensure they remain eligible for scholarships.
The platform had to be accessible via mobile devices to cater to young students and busy mentors, while meeting strict security and privacy standards for student data across several school districts.
Services Offered
App Development
Building cross-platform mobile apps for iOS and Android to connect student mentees with mentors.
UI/UX Design
Designing an intuitive student-centric interface to drive commitment and engagement in mentorship.
Backend Engine
Implementing a scalable backend for handling millions of mentor milestones and student profiles.
Milestone Tracking
Developing a tracking system for scholarship eligibility based on student grades and attendance.
The Solution.
We built a comprehensive mentor-mentee ecosystem for TSIC, ensuring low-income students have access to the resources and support needed to graduate high school and transition into college.
Team Composition
2 Mobile Developers (Swift/Kotlin)
1 UI/UX Designer
1 QA Engineer
Built a secure system to pair students with mentors based on shared interests, backgrounds, and geographical proximity to ensure successful long-term connections.
Implemented an integrated dashboard where coaches can track grades, attendance, and behavioral milestones required for scholarship fulfillment.
Developed a secure messaging channel with file-sharing for parents, students, and mentors to ensure they stay on top of educational needs and graduation goals.
Created an automated notification engine for upcoming mentorship sessions, important deadlines, and status updates for college preparation.
Ensured high-level data privacy compliance with district-specific standards to safely handle student-level information and history.
Built a powerful reporting tool for TSIC administrators to oversee scholarship disbursements and overall success statistics across the state of Florida.
The Impact.
Our mobile mentorship solution helped TSIC expand its Florida-bound reach and track student persistence with 99% accuracy:
96% graduation rate achieved by students actively using the mentorship tracking system.- 10K+ mentor connection hours tracked monthly через the automated logging system.
- 99% accuracy in college readiness reporting across Florida's school districts.
- 80% reduction in administrative manual logs for success check-ins and coaching.
- Multi-year persistence tracking successfully implemented for scholarship lifecycle stages.