ePals(TM) Announces Partnership With Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage to Offer Digital Cultural Exchange
20 Février 2014 - 8:06PM
Marketwired
ePals(TM) Announces Partnership With Smithsonian Center for
Folklife and Cultural Heritage to Offer Digital Cultural Exchange
WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwired - Feb 20, 2014) - ePals Corporation
(TSX-VENTURE: SLN), an education media and social learning company,
today announces a partnership with the Smithsonian Center for
Folklife and Cultural Heritage, part of the world's largest museum
and research complex. The Center for Folklife and Cultural
Heritage, which is launching this effort in conjunction with the
2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, will license the ePals Global
Community and support the development of a virtual, global exchange
for K-12 students celebrating the culture of the People's Republic
of China.
"A partnership with ePals extends our ability to reach students
and educators significantly," said Michael Atwood Mason, director
of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. "The ePals
companion program will bring the culture of China, and educational
tools developed at the Folklife Festival, to K-12 classrooms around
the world, a new area of focus for us."
"We are excited to harness ePals' collaborative media
experiences and our global network of students and teachers to
expand the Smithsonian's remarkable work to highlight Chinese
culture through its Festival," said Katya Andresen, CEO of
ePals. "This is a powerful example of how ePals can support
partners and sponsors with our content, platform and presence in
China to spark learning in classrooms and homes worldwide."
The 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival features the program
China: Tradition and the Art of Living, as well as a
program on Kenya, and will be held June 25 through June 29 and July
2 through July 6 outdoors on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
The Festival, inaugurated in 1967, celebrates traditional culture
with people from across the United States and around the world. The
companion program powered by ePals will provide students and
teachers a collaborative environment so that children can serve as
junior curators, sharing insights and learning about the culture of
China.
The agreement with the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
builds on existing partnerships between ePals and the Smithsonian,
facilitated by the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital
Access. In January 2014, ePals launched the third annual Spark!Lab
Invent It Challenge with the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the
Study of Invention and Innovation. This global challenge honors
K-12 student winners whose creative inventions best demonstrate the
Spark!Lab process of invention, with a patent filing and Camp
Invention scholarship among the prizes.
About Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is dedicated to
the collaborative research, presentation, preservation,
conservation and continuity of traditional knowledge and artistry
with diverse contemporary cultural communities in the United States
and around the world. The center produces the annual Smithsonian
Folklife Festival and Folkways Recordings, maintains and makes
accessible the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections,
produces extensive research and educational materials, and promotes
cultural heritage policy for the benefit of communities around the
world. For more information about the Center for Folklife and
Cultural Heritage, visit Folklife.si.edu.
About ePals Corporation
ePals Corporation (TSX-VENTURE: SLN) is an education media
company and Global Learning Network. Focused on the K-12 market,
ePals offers school administrators, teachers, students and parents
worldwide trusted content, interactive learning experiences, and a
collaborative learning community. ePals' award-winning products
include: popular children's educational publishing brands from
toddlers to teens, including Cricket® and Cobblestone®; the ePals
Global Community®; and In2Books®, a Common Core eMentoring program
that builds reading, writing and critical thinking skills. ePals
also offers a content-licensing, clearance and production service
for education publishers. ePals serves approximately one million
classrooms and reaches millions of teachers, students and parents
in over 200 countries and territories. Product websites include:
www.ePals.com; www.Cricketmag.com; and In2Books.com.
Contacts: Katya Andresen Chief Executive Officer ePals
Corporation Phone: (703) 885-3400 Twitter: @katyaandresen Cory Pala
Investor Relations E.vestor Phone: (416) 657-2400
cpala@corp.epals.com
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