FunWithScienceClub.com: Imagination Meets Science Education.

News Editors/Education, Technology & Science Writers

DAVIE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 19, 2001

A father's fanciful tale about aliens and the environment has been incorporated into one of the most innovative science-education sites on the Internet, where youngsters of all ages will soon be able to chat with world-renowned scientists and students can share their exciting experiments in online chat rooms.

FunWithScienceClub.com (www.FunWithScienceClub.com) will be launched in St. Louis March 22-25, at the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) 2001 National Convention, the world's largest gathering of science educators with more than 10,000 expected to attend.

Fun with Science Club is produced by the Aurora Educational Group of Davie, Florida, in cooperation with the National Council for Science and the Environment, NCSE Chairman Dr. Stephen Hubbell, and Animal Behavior Society President Dr. Patricia Adair Gowaty. The web site was conceived for young children and teens alike, with features that appeal to both age groups.

For elementary-school students, Fun with Science Club presents the animated exploits of The Googles, an intergalactic adventure that combines imagination with a powerful message about the importance of ecology. The Googles concept originated as a story created by Steven A. Silvers and shared with his young son.

As Aurora Education Group's director of creative development, Silvers helped develop a serialized Internet format for his tale about Oogle Googles and his four-eyed fuzzy family and friends from the planet Goo who travel to Earth to learn how to save their society from total environmental annihilation.

Fun with Science Club features sections for older students in which they can chat with renowned scientists. The site also offers opportunities to share unusual experiments, view 3-D anaglyphs of Mars missions, Hubbell space telescope sightings and solar-system images, and learn all about a broad range of scientific specialties.

"We believe that teaching children of today about visions of tomorrow can make a real difference in children's lives," Dr. Hubbell said. "Through our collaboration with Fun with Science Club, we are in the process of developing the site to highlight the fun of doing real science. Our main goal is to inspire young people with the thrill and power of science, and making original discoveries using the scientific method."

The Aurora Educational Group conceived Fun with Science Club to be a child-safe, interactive learning site for children of all ages. The company maintains the site in strict adherence to the Federal Trade Commission's 1998 Child Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) to ensure the highest possible standards.

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