Monday, December 21, 2009

Reaching Out to Kid Oriented Mobile Phones with STEM Lessons

On July 1, 2008, kajeet, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, and Hot Lava Software, Inc. began to appulse the way that adolescence apprentice about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The Sports Bytes Competition allows adolescence to apprentice about the science abaft sports via their adaptable phones. Sports Bytes focuses on accepted sports through “brain-teaser” questions that acquiesce users to chronicle STEM concepts to absolute apple contexts. Questions involving baseball will claiming the user to actuate whether a able brew can adjudge to beat actually in a blink of an eye. Other featured sports are soccer, cycling, and swimming, which accommodate applied appliance to STEM concepts.

kajeet is the alone pay-as-you-go corpuscle buzz account that puts kids aboriginal while accompanying allotment them and befitting them safe—facilitating them to acknowledge with aplomb to what's accident in their world. “We are capitalizing on adolescent fans’ adulation for corpuscle phones by application them as a acquirements tool,” said Merrilea J. Mayo, Ph.D., Director, Future of Learning Initiatives for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. “This new antagonism allows us to ability and affect kids in a different way. Our achievement is that they apprentice how agitative science can be and potentially analyze a career in the field.”

Powered by Hot Lava Software’s Mobile Delivery and Tracking System (MDTS), kajeet users can acceptance Sports Bytes from their kajeet buzz accouter menu. After answering a STEM catechism they are adored with chargeless Sports Bytes themed wallpapers for their adaptable phones.

Since July 1, 2008, the all-around Sports Bytes Competition has gone above kajeet users to appoint bags of humans aural Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. As of August 15, the advance has over 130,000 registered users and over 40,000 users who accept answered one or added questions about the science abaft sports.

To participate in the Sports Bytes Competition appropriate now, argument action to 83960 or argument your acknowledgment to the catechism below to 83960.

A pro brew decides to beat in a blink of an eye?

•Text "sporta" for TRUE to 83960
•Text "sportb" for FALSE to 83960

About Hot Lava Software, Inc.
Hot Lava Software, Inc. is the arch provider of adaptable authoring, publishing, accumulation and tracking solutions. Using Hot Lava Software's agreeable development and publishing arrangement (LMA) chip with the Hot Lava Mobile Delivery and Tracking SystemTM (MDTS) allows organizations to accept the accoutrement and ability bare to barrage and clue adaptable initiatives faster, with added amount efficiency. Hot Lava Software provides adaptable agreeable solutions and design, as able-bodied as assembly and publishing solutions to corporations, governments and universities about the world. More advice is accessible at www.hotlavasoftware.com.

About the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a clandestine detached foundation that works to accouter the ability of entrepreneurship and addition to abound economies and advance animal welfare. Through its analysis and added initiatives, the Kauffman Foundation aims to accessible adolescent people's eyes to the achievability of entrepreneurship, advance entrepreneurship education, accession acquaintance of entrepreneurship-friendly policies, and acquisition addition pathways for the commercialization of new ability and technologies. It aswell works to adapt acceptance to be innovators, entrepreneurs and accomplished workers in the 21st aeon abridgement through initiatives advised to advance acquirements in math, engineering, science and technology. Founded by the backward administrator and philanthropist, Ewing Marion Kauffman, the Foundation is based in Kansas City, Mo. More advice is accessible at www.kauffman.org.

Contacts:
Joy Torchia, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
816-932-1045

Heather A. Katz, Ph.D., Hot Lava Software, Inc.
540-428-2988

Barbara Walls, Hot Lava Software, Inc.
540-428-2988

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