Two Georgia Southern University students have created a new GSU Mobile app that is intended to help students find their way around campus.

The two creators, Jordan Steene, a junior business major, and Jim Ashachik, a computer science major, said the idea started when they entered an Android app contest.

“Over Christmas break, we spent hours and hours passing ideas back and forth to each other,” Steene said.

“We entered an app to help students find their way around campus and we called it the Class Finder,” Ashachik said. “Right before Christmas break, we started thinking of an idea to help students get around campus, go to the post office and to find restaurants.”

The creators spent the break writing out information for the app, getting input from friends and testing it on their phones.

“We came back to school early and created the app in about a month and a half,” Steene said.

The app will help students find any location on campus, Steene said.

The app will be especially beneficial for incoming freshman who have not yet figured out where things are on campus, Steene said.

For viewers, the app offers building lists of the campus, as well as an actual map of the campus, Steene said.

The app will also give walking and driving directions to locations on campus. Including details like what the building is used for, a help desk number and a website link for the building Steene said.

“It’s a huge Google map that is zoomed in on the Georgia Southern campus,” Ashachik said. “As you view the map, there are pins that identify the buildings and give information about the buildings, including which departments are located there.”

The app should be ready for use in about two months, Steene and Ashachik said.

“All we are waiting on is permission to use the logos from restaurants on campus and the Georgia Southern logo,” Keene said. “Other than that, we just have minor details to work out.”

The app will never be fully finished because of how it is customized to fit a campus that is constantly expanding, said the creators.

The two hope to update the app each time something new is added to campus.

“We’re all about user-friendly apps,” Steene said. “It will never be done, but it will be available for use in the next month or two. We want to keep it constantly updated, so if new buildings pop up it will be there as soon as it happens.”

Steene said, “We’re just packaging it all together so it’s in one easy place for students to find. All the information you need to know about Georgia Southern is on this app.”