High school students and teachers say the focus
is back on learning
When students returned to the classroom following months of
remote learning due to the pandemic, schools went back to making
decisions about the best ways to keep students safe. For the
Champaign Unit 4 School District in central Illinois, the solution
has been the leader in weapons detection security screening, Evolv
Technology (NASDAQ: EVLV). Champaign is using Evolv Express® at its
Central and Centennial high schools, with impressive early
results.
The Champaign school board’s decision to partner with Evolv was
made after a number of security incidents, including students who
were found carrying handguns, BB guns and knives, threats made via
social media, and a shooting at a neighboring high school. To
proactively address potential violence, the district instituted
wand checks conducted by teachers and administrators. However,
manually wanding students led to long lines and missed learning.
Some students were missing their first period class entirely due to
waiting up to two hours to enter school in the morning. Evolv has
proven to be a more efficient method to help keep students,
faculty, staff and visitors safe. In just its first two months of
use, Evolv screened more than 182,000 visitors to the two high
schools and detected multiple weapons.
Evolv Express® uses powerful sensor technology with artificial
intelligence (AI) to provide safer, more accurate threat detection
at unprecedented volume and speed. Students walk right through
without having to stop, speeding up the process and making them
feel safer without being intrusive.
“With the metal detectors and wanding, the students felt like
they were in jail,” said Valarian Couch, chief information officer
for the Champaign Unit 4 School District. “They felt like they had
to be searched for everything. But if they do not feel safe enough
to come to school, at some point we have to put mechanisms in
place. With Evolv, they feel like it’s just another day – they get
to walk into school and not have any problems. The teachers too. To
have a safe environment and for the teachers to say, ‘Well, now we
can actually start teaching,’ is huge.”
Two additional Express systems will be set up to screen fans at
high school football games beginning this fall, and the district is
looking at data provided by Evolv to determine whether to implement
additional systems at the district’s middle schools. It is also
working to integrate Evolv with its existing camera system for
enhanced security.
“We believe no student should ever have concerns about security
in school,” said Peter George, CEO of Evolv Technology. “We are
happy to be working with the Champaign School District to help keep
students and teachers safe and put the focus back in the classroom
where it belongs.”
That sentiment is the basis behind GiveEvolv, an Evolv
subsidiary, that donates Evolv’s state-of-the-art weapons detection
at no cost to schools in need. Schools in areas impacted by gun
violence that could not otherwise afford the technology are
encouraged to apply for a grant at
evolvtechnology.com/giveevolv.
About Champaign Unit 4 School District Champaign Unit 4
School District 4 is a large unit school district serving more than
10,000 students in grades pre-K through 12 in Champaign, Savoy, and
Bondville, Illinois. The diverse school community includes students
hailing from 77 countries, speaking more than 80 different
languages. The district’s 19 campuses employ more than 1,900
teachers, administrators, and support personnel.
About Evolv Technology Evolv Technology (NASDAQ: EVLV) is
transforming human security to make a safer, faster, and better
experience for the world’s most iconic venues and companies as well
as schools, hospitals, and public spaces, using industry leading
artificial intelligence (AI)-powered weapons detection and
analytics. Its mission is to transform security to create a safer
world to work, learn, and play. Evolv has digitally transformed the
gateways in places where people gather by enabling seamless
integration with unparalleled analytics and insights. Evolv’s
advanced systems have scanned more than 250 million people, second
only to the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation
Security Administration (TSA) in the United States. Evolv has been
awarded the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) SAFETY Act
Designation as a Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology (QATT) as well
as the Security Industry Association (SIA) New Products and
Solutions (NPS) Award in the Law Enforcement/Public Safety/Guarding
Systems category. For more information, visit
https://evolvtechnology.com.
Evolv Technology, Evolv Express®, Evolv Insights™, and Evolv
Cortex AI™ are registered trademarks or trademarks of Evolv
Technologies, Inc. in the United States and other
jurisdictions.
For more information, visit https://evolvtechnology.com.
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