QR Code Press

TreeCaching QR codes encourage children to discover nature

02/10/201502/07/2015 Julie Campbell

A new program launched in the Humber Arboretum is using quick response codes in a method new to North America. A registered charity called Climate’s Sake has launched a new program using QR codes that involves an expansion to its TreeCaching trail, and that has been designed to help to encourage children to get out and explore the nature around them. Along the trail are trees that have quick response codes posted on them, to appeal to mobile-carrying kids. The funding for the expansion of 11 trees to create a…

Kids from St. Croix use QR codes to boost education about historic buildings

01/21/201501/20/2015 Jorge Gonzalez

Students from the Ricardo Richards Elementary School have added the quick response codes to signage. Starting on Friday, visitors and residents of St. Croix can benefit from new QR codes that will be added to the existing signage in front of two historical buildings that are located in downtown Christiansted. There will be a welcoming ceremony held at the Steeple House in order to introduce the barcodes. The addition of these QR codes has been, to a large degree, the result of the work of students from the Ricardo Richards…

Students use QR codes for a Clitheroe quarry project

01/20/201501/17/2015 Jorge Gonzalez

Children from Pendle Primary have applied the quick response codes to their study of the Salthill Quarry. A system of adding QR codes to the existing numbered posts at the Salthill Quarry in the United Kingdom has been created by Reserves Officer Phil Dykes from the Lancashire Wildlife Trust. The program was created in order to help with a project for the students at the Pendle Primary School. The reserves officer came up with the concept of adding the QR codes to the posts in order to make it possible…

QR codes offer Victorian bathroom tours

01/09/201501/07/2015 Julie Campbell

The Hayes Historic toilets can soon be visited without actually having to head underground to see them. Cardiff, the capital of Wales, has a very unique and fascinating historic attraction in the form of Victorian bathrooms, and now QR codes are being displayed to give visitors the chance to see them, without actually having to go underground – a trip that many tourists would rather not take. The Victorian toilets are located under the Hayes, which is a commercial area within the city, known for historic sites. While the underground…

QR codes provide Uwharrie Trail hikers with audio tour

01/06/201501/03/2015 Jorge Gonzalez

A new feature allows people using the area to be able to use their mobile devices to access the web based experience. The Uwharrie Trail in North Carolina has now added a new feature that includes QR codes that will allow hikers to be able to use their smartphone technology to access a web based audio tour. This new quick response code based tour is the result of Chris Moncrief, an Eagle Scout Chief. The trail is about 40 miles long and it works its way through the Uwharrie mountains.…