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Students looking to build application that can sub as student ID card

Andy Williams   ||   Feb 27, 2012  ||   

Some students at Utah Valley University, Orem, are looking for donations that will give them seed money to develop their own iPhone app that could double as a student ID card.

Trent Ewing and Mark Wilkinson are in the planning stages of making an app for the university. They want the app to replace student ID cards and have already spent time collecting donations from students.

“Our goal is to get our idea off the ground. Talking to people we have almost 100% approval rate,” Ewing said. “The main problem students have is that 43% don’t have smart phones.”

They also said the app could save the school money.

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