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Shodor Website Wins 'Best of the Web'

released September 5, 2000

The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.'s website recently earned Forbes.com's "Best of the Web" designation in the education category. The site will be featured in the print version of Forbes magazine's "Best of the Web." Started in 1994, Shodor is part of the Education, Outreach and Training Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (EOT-PACI), the outreach effort of the NSF's PACI program.

Forbes recognized the website as a creative approach to science and mathematics education through "compelling interactive models and simulations." According to Forbes, it also gives both students and teachers the opportunity to work with sophisticated software tools.

Shodor is dedicated to reforming and improving mathematics and science education using computational technologies. Its goal is to "extend valuable educational sources and opportunities as far as possible." The foundation, although intended mainly for teachers, offers resources for people at all educational levels.

To check out this website, go to http://www.shodor.org/. For more on Forbes' "Best of the Web" see http://www.forbesbest.com/.

 

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