Saturday, February 24, 2018 11:32:13 AM
High school student and Army recruit from Wisconsin INVENTS classroom door that STOPS school killers (Video)
https://thenationalsentinel.com/2018/02/23/high-school-student-and-army-recruit-from-wisconsin-invents-classroom-door-that-stops-school-killers-video/?mc_cid=e321cc6611&mc_eid=7e6229e48f
A Sumerset, Wisconsin high school senior set to enlist in the U.S. Army after graduation has invented a new security device for classroom doors that can stop an active shooter or other threat from entering.
The student, Justin Rivard, calls his device “JustinKase,” and it’s already being purchased by some schools, including the one he attends.
As Fox News reports, Rivard actually invented his device when he was 15, but he’s been spending the past few years perfecting it. He sells it online for $95.
The JustinKase device locks down classroom doors and prevents them from being opened even a little bit.
“Unlike other products, JustinKase does not allow a door to open even a crack which means students & staff can remain safe while emergency personnel race to the scene,” Rivard, a student at Somerset High School, explains on his website.
He said he was motivated to come up with a better security system after going through “active shooter training” at his high school and discovering that there were security shortfalls in actions that students and teachers could take.
So he was then challenged by his school shop teacher to come up with a better system, he said.
Made of steel plates and connecting rods, his device slips beneath a classroom door and latches to the door’s jam. With his device in place, Rivard has yet to find a person who can push a classroom door open, including linemen from his high school football team.
“You can lock a door with a lock, it can get shot out,” he says. “You can lock a door with this, it can't get shot out. You can't get around it.”
Rivard didn’t have to go far for his first big sale. Somerset High School ordered 50 of them, one for every classroom in the building.
“We started with the high school, then went to the middle school, then the elementary school,” says Shannon Donnelly, Somerset’s principal.
Donnelly keeps a JustinKase under her desk as well. She expects everyone in the school to know how to use one.
“We immediately, within a week of having these, went through an entire drill, all throughout the building, really walking through students and staff,” she says.
Justin Rivard places his “Justin Kase” door jam into place at Somerset High School.
Rivard already has delivered 54 of his devices to the Grantsburg School District in Wisconsin, with 40 more on the way.
He knows of at least one company making a similar device but says his can be put into place faster and costs less.
Rivard is waiting for approval on his patent application.
Eric Olson is the technology and engineering teacher at Somerset High School. He’s not surprised by Rivard's creation.
“He's the special combination of motivation and brains and has a motor that just keeps going,” Olson says.
After graduation this spring, Rivard will be turning over his fledgling business to his father. Starting in July, he will begin serving in the Army.
Rivard says he used to wonder if he would have an impact on his school. Not anymore.
“My impact is in every room,” he says.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/02/20/high-school-student-develops-justinkase-tool-could-save-lives-during-school-shooting/353942002/
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/wisconsin-students-invention-sparks-nationwide-interest-after-florida-shooting
https://thenationalsentinel.com/2018/02/23/high-school-student-and-army-recruit-from-wisconsin-invents-classroom-door-that-stops-school-killers-video/?mc_cid=e321cc6611&mc_eid=7e6229e48f
A Sumerset, Wisconsin high school senior set to enlist in the U.S. Army after graduation has invented a new security device for classroom doors that can stop an active shooter or other threat from entering.
The student, Justin Rivard, calls his device “JustinKase,” and it’s already being purchased by some schools, including the one he attends.
As Fox News reports, Rivard actually invented his device when he was 15, but he’s been spending the past few years perfecting it. He sells it online for $95.
The JustinKase device locks down classroom doors and prevents them from being opened even a little bit.
“Unlike other products, JustinKase does not allow a door to open even a crack which means students & staff can remain safe while emergency personnel race to the scene,” Rivard, a student at Somerset High School, explains on his website.
He said he was motivated to come up with a better security system after going through “active shooter training” at his high school and discovering that there were security shortfalls in actions that students and teachers could take.
So he was then challenged by his school shop teacher to come up with a better system, he said.
Made of steel plates and connecting rods, his device slips beneath a classroom door and latches to the door’s jam. With his device in place, Rivard has yet to find a person who can push a classroom door open, including linemen from his high school football team.
“You can lock a door with a lock, it can get shot out,” he says. “You can lock a door with this, it can't get shot out. You can't get around it.”
Rivard didn’t have to go far for his first big sale. Somerset High School ordered 50 of them, one for every classroom in the building.
“We started with the high school, then went to the middle school, then the elementary school,” says Shannon Donnelly, Somerset’s principal.
Donnelly keeps a JustinKase under her desk as well. She expects everyone in the school to know how to use one.
“We immediately, within a week of having these, went through an entire drill, all throughout the building, really walking through students and staff,” she says.
Justin Rivard places his “Justin Kase” door jam into place at Somerset High School.
Rivard already has delivered 54 of his devices to the Grantsburg School District in Wisconsin, with 40 more on the way.
He knows of at least one company making a similar device but says his can be put into place faster and costs less.
Rivard is waiting for approval on his patent application.
Eric Olson is the technology and engineering teacher at Somerset High School. He’s not surprised by Rivard's creation.
“He's the special combination of motivation and brains and has a motor that just keeps going,” Olson says.
After graduation this spring, Rivard will be turning over his fledgling business to his father. Starting in July, he will begin serving in the Army.
Rivard says he used to wonder if he would have an impact on his school. Not anymore.
“My impact is in every room,” he says.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/02/20/high-school-student-develops-justinkase-tool-could-save-lives-during-school-shooting/353942002/
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/wisconsin-students-invention-sparks-nationwide-interest-after-florida-shooting
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