This year’s focus is on designing new and innovative ways to provide natural disaster preparation and relief WASHINGTON, DC—February 1,2018  This January marked the launch of the 7th annual Global Spark!Lab Dr. InBae Yoon Invent It Challenge – coinciding with the month’s Kid Inventors’ Day, which celebrates the important role children play in sparking innovation […]

Guest post by Luci Unferth, a fifth-grade teacher. Editor’s Note: January is National Mentoring Month! To celebrate, we’ve partnered with Cricket Media to share stories about the positive impact mentoring — especially eMentoring — can have on young people’s lives. If you told me a few months ago that my fifth-grade classroom’s most reluctant readers […]

Award-winning Content Now Also Cornerstone of Global Education Company’s eMentoring Programs (L. WOLFE COMMUNICATIONS) WASHINGTON, D.C. – January 22, 2018 – Cricket Media today announced that all 11 of its children’s magazines won Gold Awards in the 2018 Parents’ Choice Awards. The global education company is now the most-awarded publisher by Parents’ Choice. Cricket Media’s […]

Editor’s Note: January is National Mentoring Month! To celebrate, we’ve partnered with Cricket Media to share stories about the positive impact mentoring — especially eMentoring — can have on young people’s lives. Guest post by Dr. Gail D. Brady, principal, Sugarland Elementary School Along with my eight brothers and sisters, I grew up in a […]

by Robin White Goode | November 4, 2017  Cricket Media is a global education company that’s created an innovative e-mentoring program making a critical difference in the lives of children in need. CricketTogether, Cricket Media’s e-mentoring platform, leverages technology to bring working professionals into the lives of children in third through fifth grade around the […]

McLean, VA — As part of the global commitment to develop a robust STEM workforce for the future, Cricket Media, Inc. and IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization advancing technology for humanity, announced a partnership to create TryEngineering Together, a unique “eMentorship” platform giving companies a resource to mobilize their employees as volunteers to inspire […]

Anne Field , FORBES CONTRIBUTOR.  For the past decade, Nina Zolt has been focused on a particular passion: raising literacy and problem–solving skills of low-income kids by connecting them to online pen pals/mentors. In the late 1990’s, she co-founded a nonprofit, which she later turned into a for-profit, now called Cricket Media. Cricket Media Kids participating […]

Press Release – DETROIT – July 31, 2017 – This summer Motor City students between third and fifth grade are connecting one-on-one with adult eMentors from around the country. This program, coordinated by Libraries Without Borders and Cricket Media, and implemented in partnership with the Detroit Public Library and Matrix Human Solutions uses the new […]

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is evolving in ways companies may not have anticipated. It’s more than just taking comfort in the knowledge that a company is a good community steward; employers are also finding that employees want to work for businesses that have an impact — and they want to be active participants in those […]