Create the icon for a highly disruptive mobile App for schools and universities

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We are a company offering administrative software solutions to Educational institutions,.. like schools, colleges and universities in Mexico and other latinoamerican countries.

Since some years ago we are running a web plattform for school colaboration that has become quite popular, but was only web-based. Now, we are polishing and finishing a mobile-app to offer our users the ability to get connected on-the-road to our web plattform.

This app should inform about classes, notes, grades, payments, homeworks, schedule, school calendar, photo albums of recent events, and a few more features... also should offer connectivity to interact with teachers. As a father/mother you can also use this app to see everything about your sons.

What we need is the icon for this app.

The icon should reflect in one image the spirit of the app (described above), these could be the guidelines:

- Related to a wide range of educational segments (from small schools for kids to universities where you only see adults -doing masters or doctorates-).
- Should 'speak' about helping for your school dutties, or as a father to get information about your kids' school life.
- Should 'speak' about a virtual link to your school,... if you were a student you should open your app daily to monitor homeworks or download/print files or review your recent notes or grades.
- Should be universal,.. we need to use the icon for Apple Store and also for Google Play (or whatever).
- Should be plain. As in modern apps for iOS 7.
- Should be simple, we'll appreciate more an original ideagram on the icon that a very loaded one.
- Please don't use words on the icon or classic icons like some student doing homework or school building, even when stilized.

All designs, brochures and images we have were written in spanish,... we don't want to submit that.

As a designer you need to imagine yourself as a student again to get the feeling of the need solved with the app.... and of course you must be clear that this app is not only for organize your weekly schedule.