BECON Program Science and Me Wins Emmy.FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla. -- This past Saturday, The Broward Education Communications Network The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. (BECON BECON Bioengineering Consortium BECON Broward Education Communications Network BEcon Bachelor of Economics ) received an Emmy Award Emmy award Annual presentation for outstanding achievement in U.S. television. Its name is taken from the nickname “immy” for the image orthicon, a television camera tube. from the National Television Academy Suncoast Chapter for Science and Me, an educational program for kindergarten through second graders. "The shows we produce are meant to supplement curriculum and enhance student achievement with highly motivating lessons using state of the art animation," said Michael Moscatello, AKA Molecular Mike, executive producer and host of Science and Me. "Our main focus is helping students, but winning an Emmy and being recognized by your peers is an honor and validates the quality of our productions." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the call for entries, the purpose of the National Television Academy's Emmy Awards is "To recognize outstanding achievements in television by conferring annual awards of merit in the chapter's designated award region. The presentation of these awards is intended to be an incentive for the continued pursuit of excellence for those working in the television industry and to focus public attention on outstanding cultural, educational, technological, entertainment, news and information achievements in television." Science and Me will be distributed to every elementary school elementary school: see school. in Broward County, which was made possible through a grant from AD Henderson Foundation. Television viewers can also watch the show at home starting mid-January on BECON-TV (WPPB, cable channel 19 or 70). "BECON has been producing educational programming for the classroom since 1966," said Dr. Phyllis Schiffer Simon, director of BECON. "For the past five years, we have been able to extend this service to the community with the School Board's purchase of our broadcast channel licensed by the FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. to provide educational, non-commercial programming. BECON strives to offer a wide selection of programming for viewers of all ages." BECON, owned and operated by the School Board of Broward County, also provides online courses for Broward County Public School students and distance learning courses and electronic field trips for schools, the community and local businesses. For more information on BECON's broadcast or instructional programming visit http://www.becon.tv or call 1-877-TVBECON. High resolution electronic photos available upon request. |
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