Making a Positive Impact

Projects

EdQuest's work reaches beyond the classroom. Alongside our public-safety education, we build and support free, open tools that help people in our community plan, learn, and stay safe.

Our workWhat we build and support

ResQ‑R

Scan a Dalmatian, learn to stay safe

A project of EdQuest

ResQ‑R (say it “rescuer”) is a friendly firefighter Dalmatian whose spots hide a QR code. Put a badge on the safety gear around you—a fire extinguisher, an AED, a park grill—and a scan opens a short, local safety lesson about exactly that thing. Partners like WHFD make and print their own badges.

  • Scannable Dalmatian badges on everyday safety gear
  • Instant, location-specific safety education, no app needed
  • Make your own badges and print stickers, signs, or cards

GardenCAD

Browser-based garden planning

A project of EdQuest

GardenCAD is a free tool for designing a garden bed by bed: lay out plants and structures, watch how shade falls across the day and the seasons, and plan what to plant where.

  • Draw beds and structures and place plants to scale
  • See how sun and shade move through the day and the seasons
  • No install and no account, right in your browser

Woodbury Heights Fire Department

A Minnesota nonprofit fire department

EdQuest, operating as WHFD

Under Minnesota law a fire department can be a nonprofit corporation, and WHFD is EdQuest’s. It focuses on prevention, community safety education, and incipient (beginning‑stage) fire response, not 911 emergencies. It runs Stubby, its fire engine, and proudly sponsors local Scout troops.

  • Fire-prevention education & community training
  • Incipient-stage response, not a 911 service
  • Puts EdQuest’s ResQ‑R safety badges to work

FirePrevented.org

Every smoke alarm, checked

A campaign of EdQuest

A community campaign to check and replace every smoke alarm. Two minutes is all the time you get to escape a home fire, and FirePrevented.org helps every family make sure they have it.

  • Check the date on every smoke alarm
  • Replace any alarm over ten years old
  • Free alarms for families who need them