Owensboro Catholic Schools Now Available on the App Store

Friends of Owensboro Catholic Schools now have a valuable resource at their fingertips. The Owensboro Catholic Schools App is available on the App Store for free download.

The school system developed the OCS App with Red Pixel Studios of Owensboro so students, parents and teachers can get information with a few flicks of their finger.

The App enables users to stay informed about all the activities surrounding Owensboro Catholic schools.
A product of Red Pixel Studio’s RPS | infoApp solution, the Owensboro Catholic Schools App keeps users informed with the latest news and reminders from the school system, so they can be sure to know about meetings, parent-teacher conferences and the most up-to-date news items.

A school calendar provides a convenient way to plan for upcoming events and an athletics calendar will make sure fans know about every contest the Aces take on. An interactive map marks the locations of each school and athletic venue in the school system.

The App also delivers the faculty directory so that students or parents can email teachers on the go.
In addition, the App integrates with the school system’s Facebook and Twitter pages and gives users to option to receive Facebook status updates as alerts on their devices.

“We wanted a way to connect to our families and give them something useful,” said Karen Gross, Marketing/Enrollment Specialist for Owensboro Catholic Schools. “This App lets us directly communicate with our students, parents and teachers with the goal of increasing their involvement and enriching the overall educational experience for our students.”

Owensboro Catholic Schools selected Red Pixel Studios to develop the App because they were able to incorporate the numerous features they wanted at a very low cost.

“We developed infoApp as a framework to produce customized, branded Apps for a wide variety of customers,” said Eric Kyle, president of Red Pixel Studios. “It’s an extremely flexible and robust system that enables us to quickly and inexpensively develop personalized Apps for schools, restaurants, tourism destinations or nearly any organization.”

The Owensboro Catholic Schools App is available on the App Store.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/owensboro-catholic-schools/id397848129?mt=8