WASHINGTON, DC – April 16, 2014 — ePals Corporation (TSX-V: SLN), an education media and social learning company, today announced an agreement with Dalian Neumedias Information Technology Co., Ltd to develop and distribute interactive digital media products based on ePals’ award winning children’s magazines for children throughout China. Under the agreement, four brands of dual English-Chinese language apps and content for toddlers and young children will be offered on smartphones, tablets and smart TVs through Neumedias’ NeuStore digital media platform, with the potential to expand to additional ePals’ brands.
ePalsâ„¢ Partners with Fingerprint to Provide Children’s Digital Media Apps Worldwide
WASHINGTON, DC – April 15, 2014 — ePals Corporation (TSX-V: SLN), an education media and social learning company, today announced an agreement with Fingerprint, a global mobile technology company, to develop a custom mobile learning network featuring ePal’s award-winning children’s magazines, digital content and community management platform. The custom mobile learning network will enable family members and other parent-approved users to communicate and collaborate around engaging, educational content while providing parents with informative dashboards about their child’s activity and performance.
Smithsonian and ePals Launch 2014 Junior Folklorist Challenge
Challenge invites kids 8-18 globally to explore and share cultural traditions and learn professional folklorist investigation, interview and reporting skills.
WASHINGTON, DC – April 2, 2014 – ePals Corporation, an education media company and Global Learning Network, today announced the launch of its inaugural Junior Folklorist Challenge in partnership with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. The challenge is one of several planned activities stemming from the ePals-Smithsonian partnership, which is designed to extend the global reach and student learning opportunities around the Center’s annual June-July Washington D.C.-based Folklife Festival. Now open to kids eight to 18 worldwide, the challenge asks participants to examine a local or regional tradition through the eyes of a community tradition bearer and create a video, podcast or slide show to share the story.
ePals™ Partners with Kindoma to Provide Award-Winning Children’s Content in Innovative App
WASHINGTON, DC – March 11, 2014 – ePals Corporation (TSVX:SLN), an education media and social learning company, today announces a joint product offering with Kindoma, a recognized creator of mobile apps that combine shared reading experiences with video chat for families. The pertnership integrates content from ePals award-winning Cricket Magazine Group with Kindoma’s popular social learning application.
ePals™ Announces Partnership with Pearson’s Online Learning Exchange™ (OLE)
WASHINGTON, DC – February 18, 2014 – ePals Corporation (TSVX:SLN), an education media and social learning company, today announces a partnership with Pearson Online Learning Exchange (OLE) to license for use content from the ePals’ digital content library to the OLE platform. ePals is known for its award-winning and educational children’s content and a global community connecting over 200 countries and territories. This licensing arrangement for the OLE platform is the latest extension of Pearson’s use of ePals content in its products and services.
Smithsonian and ePals Challenge Kids Globally to Solve Real-World Problems in Third Annual Invention Competition.
WASHINGTON, DC – Janurary 17, 2014 – ePals Corporation, an education media company and Global Learning Network, today announced the launch of its third annual Spark! Lab Invent It Challenge in partnership with the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. The Challenge honors K12 student winners whose creative inventions best demonstrate the Spark!Lab process of invention, with a patent filing and Camp Invention scholarship among the prizes. The Spark!Lab Invent It Challenge is open to students globally, with age-group categories from five to 18 and both individual and group submissions accepted.
ePals Announces Elevation of Katya Andresen to CEO
WASHINGTON, DC – Janurary 16, 2014 – ePals Corporation (TSXV:SLN) (“ePals” or the “Company”) announces that in accordance with the Company’s previously announced CEO transition plan, Katya Andresen formally assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective January 1, 2014. Ms. Andresen joined the Company in June 2013 and served as the Company’s President and Chief Operating Officer during the transition period. Ms. Andresen succeeds Miles Gilburne as CEO. Mr. Gilburne will remain as Chairman of the Company’s board of directors.
31st Annual Awards of Excellence Winners Announced by Tech & Learning Magazine
SAN BRUNO, CA (October 30, 2013) – Tech & Learning magazine today named 72 education technology products as winners in its prestigious 31-year-old recognition program. Honored software, hardware, network, web products include innovative applications that break new ground as well as those that added significant enhancements to proven education tools. A panel of more than 30 educators, who tested more than 150 entries, chose the winners.
ePals® Announces Offering of Free and Low-Cost Resources to Help Support Teachers for The New School Year
WASHINGTON, DC – August 27, 2013. ePals Corporation (TSX-V: SLN), an education media company and the world’s leading Global Learning Network, today announced it is supporting teachers in the fall 2013 back to school window across the US, Asia, and Europe with a host of free and low-cost resources.
ePals® Launches Publishing Services in Partnership with McGraw Hill Education, Smithsonian Institution and Leading Publishers Globally
WASHINGTON, DC – June 25, 2013 From the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference in San Antonio, ePals Corporation today announced the launch of enhanced services for educational publishers worldwide. These end-to-end services enable providers of curriculum, quality resources and learning activities to distribute their content into classrooms, schools and homes globally.