FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MC2 and NASA Quest Project Launch Educational Initiative
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA - August 31, 1998
MC2 Learning Systems announces its collaboration with NASA Ames Research Center (Moffett Field, CA) for a K-12 educational project. Both organizations will support the Kent School District in hosting and sharing dynamic online projects using ZebuT educational groupware.
Teachers know that NASA provides access to some of the best science-based programs and resources to educators through the World Wide Web. This fall, schools throughout North America will be able to do more than just access these resources and participate in projects that link students to the people of NASA through email and online chats. Students and teachers will be able to use ZebuT, MC2's fully interactive web-based groupware tool, to participate in online projects that support the sharing and co-creation of ideas and resources between students from any location.
Kent School District (the fourth largest district in the state of Washington) is developing the projects to co-ordinate with existing NASA resources and events-available through the NASA Quest Project-and has chosen ZebuT as the vehicle to create and host the projects for approximately 1500 students across the continent.
"We are pleased to support a project such as this one," said Marc Siegel, Manager of NASA's Quest team. "Our mission here at Quest is to connect classrooms to NASA's enthusiastic people and therefore bring to life NASA's exciting missions and science. The projects being hosted by Kent School District using Zebu will add value by helping students share ideas and information with their peers in any location."
The Quest Project is a service of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and is funded by NASA's Learning Technologies Project. The goal of Quest is to provide support and services for schools, teachers and students to fully utilize the Internet, and its underlying information technologies, as a basic tool for learning. The NASA Quest Project can be found online at quest.arc.nasa.gov
MC2 Learning Systems is a dynamic leader in the educational software industry and is committed to delivering powerful network-based learning tools to the education market. MC2 has pioneered an innovative approach toward integrating network tools into the classroom. MC2's software products are designed by educators to effectively meet the needs of the education community. MC2 Learning Systems is a publicly traded company whose shares are traded on the Alberta Stock Exchange under the symbol (MCZ.A). The Alberta Stock Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved the information contained herein.
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