How Cross-Sector Partnerships Are Fueling Innovation in Tampa

Route Fifty: TAMPA — When a teacher plunked the wrong kid in his car at school pickup time a few years ago, Saravana Pat Bhava was infuriated. But the Tampa father’s anger quickly dissipated when he realized the teachers didn’t have the resources they needed to properly manage the process.

“The tools they were using were walkie-talkies, clipboards, sticky notes and [megaphones],” he told Route Fifty in an interview. So Bhava created his own solution—a GPS-enabled smartphone app called PikMyKid that notifies parents where their kids are, and allows teachers to pinpoint the location of parents’ vehicles.

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