HomeworkCentral.com Winner of the First Wired Kids Web Educational Superstar Award

Business Wire, March 29, 2000

Business/Education & Parenting Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 2000

HomeworkCentral.com Is a Superstar in the Eyes of Kids!

HomeworkCentral.com, a free online learning environment made up of the world's best links to knowledge on the Internet, won the Wired Kids and Cyberangels first annual Wired Kids Educational Superstar Award today. This award will be given each year to the website(s) recognized by a panel of children and privacy experts as contributing most to the value of the Internet as a learning tool, while promoting the issue of safety for children who are surfing the web.

"Homeworkcentral is such a wonderful learning tool for children, educators and parents," said Parry Aftab, as she presented the award today at the Kids Internet Summit in New York City. "And it has proven to be an invaluable resource not only in the traditional classroom environment, but for home-schoolers as well." Aftab, the Chairman of Wired Kids and Executive Director of Cyberangels.org, is a cyberspace lawyer and the author of The Parent's Guide to Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace.

"We do it for the students," said Peter van Roden, President and Chief Executive Officer of homeworkcentral.com in his acceptance speech. "When I tell people - all people, from all walks of life - about homeworkcentral, they always have the same reaction: I wish I had homeworkcentral as a resource when I was a kid. And that is the mission of homeworkcentral - to provide resources that were once not available to anyone, to all students, from all walks of life. We are committed to bridging the digital gap."

HomeworkCentral.com is a student's answer to the search engine. Its carefully pre-screened links ensure that students are only a few Clicks away from everything they need to know about everything from long division to Native Americans to the habitat of the earthworm. Its team of scholars have located, evaluated, and organized more than 100,000 links in over 10,000 subjects, and are adding more knowledge every day. HomeworkCentral.com is part of bigchalk.com, the web's premier education destination for the entire K-12 community.