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HOUSTON – July 1, 2024 – Raptor Technologies (Raptor), the U.S. leader in school safety software and solutions, announces the acquisition of PayK12, a prominent provider of online ticketing and payment solutions for K-12 schools and athletics. This addition reinforces Raptor’s commitment to delivering comprehensive safety and administrative tools that extend the safety perimeter beyond the school campus.PayK12’s platform enables schools to securely process tickets and payments for various purposes, including athletic and special events, fees, camps, lunch programs, and fundraising activities. With this acquisition, Raptor aims to simplify payment management for schools while ensuring the highest security and compliance standards.The acquisition of PayK12 aligns with Raptor’s mission of providing schools with innovative technologies that engage parents and the community while enhancing safety and efficiency. PayK12’s expertise in digital event management and secure online payment processing complements Raptor’s new VisitorSafe™ and EventSafe™ products, offering schools a seamless experience for managing safety protocols and administrative duties during free and paid large-scale events.“Raptor is excited to welcome PayK12 to our growing portfolio of advanced school safety products,” said Gray Hall, CEO of Raptor Technologies. “Combining PayK12’s robust ticketing and payment platform with Raptor’s market-leading visitor safety software supports the needs of our customers who are seeking to expand their campus safety perimeters to include school events of all sizes.”The acquisition of PayK12 highlights Raptor’s dedication to pushing the boundaries of innovation and enhancing operational efficiency. Through this integration, Raptor reinforces its position at the forefront of school safety, offering schools the resources to foster safer learning environments and to make events and extracurricular activities even more secure.“We are excited to join Raptor Technologies,” said TJ Markland, CEO of PayK12. “Together, we can offer schools a robust combination of safety and administrative solutions that empower educators, parents and administrators alike.”For more information about Raptor Technologies and its comprehensive school safety solutions, visit www.raptortech.com.About Raptor TechnologiesFounded in 2002, Raptor has partnered with over 60,000 schools in 55 countries, including over 5,300 K-12 US school districts, to provide integrated visitor, volunteer, attendance, dismissal, emergency management, and safeguarding software and training services covering the complete spectrum of school and student safety. To learn more about Raptor Technologies, visit www.raptortech.com.

Create free flowcharts for programming studentsRAPTOR - Flowchart Interpreter is a free program developed for the Windows operating system, including Windows XP. Designed to help students visualize their algorithms, RAPTOR - Flowchart Interpreter provide visual support and helps new programmers trace the execution through the use of flowcharts. These flowcharts are proven to help student create better algorithms than by using traditional language or written flowcharts alone. For new students or those that are still developing the basics of programming, RAPTOR is one of the most useful tools available.Create successful algorithmsFor beginner or introductory programming students, creating accurate and successful algorithms can be a challenge without the aid of instructions or written flowcharts. Unfortunately, these flowcharts can sometimes prove to be satisfactory at best and not helpful to those who are in the earliest stages of programming. RAPTOR - Flowchart Interpreter, however, provides visually superior flowcharts that students prefer and result in more successful and accurate algorithms. Students can trace the execution through the flowchart visually and required syntax is kept to a minimum.Perfect for beginnersRAPTOR - Flowchart Interpreter stands head and shoulders above writing flowcharts or traditional language by providing students with a visual cue. In fact, RAPTOR has different modes. By default, students begin in Novice mode that has a single global namespace for variable. From there, they can move up to Intermediate and Object-Oriented modes that feature more comprehensive support.PROSCreate more successful algorithmsProvides a visual aid when programmingCONSOnly supported on WindowsVisually outdated for newer OSRAPTOR is a flowchart-based programming environment, designed specifically to help students visualize their algorithms and avoid syntactic baggage. RAPTOR programs are created visually and executed visually by tracing the execution through the flowchart. Required syntax is kept to a minimum. Students prefer using flowcharts to express their algorithms, and are more successful creating algorithms using RAPTOR than using a traditional language or writing flowcharts without RAPTOR.It's free and easy to use for everybody. A lot of school using this software. Similar programs are usually not free, but this is - this is best difference. It's free, but very good.

RAPTOR enables students to execute their algorithms within the environment, rather than having to separately compile and execute their programs. This means that debugging can be done on the visual representation of the algorithm, rather than the textual one. Unlike FLINT, RAPTOR does not force top-down decomposition, on the student, instead allowing the student to develop their code incrementally. Furthermore, RAPTOR adds one and two-dimensional arrays, files, strings and a graphics library. Students are therefore able to create more interesting programs than in the previous tools.3. DESCRIPTION OF RAPTORRAPTOR is written in a combination of Ada, C# and C++, and runs in the .NET Framework. RAPTOR begins by opening a blank workspace with a start and end symbol. The user can then add flowchart symbols corresponding to loops, selections, procedure calls, assignments, inputs and outputs by selecting from the palette in the upper left corner and then inserting at an appropriate point in the flowchart (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: A RAPTOR flowchart in action.The flowcharts are forced to be structured. Selections and loops must be properly nested, and each loop has a single exit point. Loops, however, allow the exit condition to be tested at any point inside the loop body. The student may select to use a pre-test, mid-test, or post-test loop simply by adding flowchart symbols before and/or after the loop test. Additionally, the loop structure more closely follows the loop/exit-when structure of Ada, rather than the while loop, as beginning students more naturally express positive logic (when the loop should exit) rather than negative logic (when the loop should keep going) [4].The syntax used within a flowchart symbol is designed to be flexible. Elements have been borrowed from both C and Pascal-style languages. For example, either “**” or “^” may be used as an exponentiation operation, and “&&” or “and” may be used as a Boolean “and” operator. RAPTOR enforces syntax checking on each flowchart symbol as it is edited. Therefore, it is impossible to create a syntactically invalid flowchart. If the user enters “x+” as the right hand side of an assignment, they will get an