iNACOL Recognizes Fire and Ice as Online Innovator Award Winner
Read press releaseFire and Ice’s Organic Garden Project was recently named Finalist for the 2009 Global Junior Challenge (GJC), an international competition based in Rome, Italy that rewards the most innovative projects employing cutting-edge ICT technologies in the field of youth education and training. Launched in 2008 by Cindea Hung of Taiwan, the Fire and Ice Organic Garden Project has attracted teachers and students worldwide from countries including Turkey, Israel, Mali, Colombia, and Indonesia.
See Videos: Newspaper Interview | Organic Garden Interview
In the Nov/Dec issue, Elluminate (and its Fire and Ice program) was named one of the Top 10 Best Corporations in Global Development 2008. We're listed alongside such heavyweights as American Express, Citigroup, Coca-Cola, Elluminate, Google, GE, and Johnson & Johnson. The article discusses companies who "use technology and innovative expertise to enhance the lives of poor people and communities around the world." It also notes that "many companies are changing the way they operate by bringing in nonprofits as key partners in growth."
Fire & Ice Program Featured on CNN.com
Recently, CNN reporter Brie Schwartz conducted extensive interviews that culminated in a great story about Elluminate's Fire & Ice program. The article emphasizes how the virtual classroom connects students from around the world, enabling them learn from each other and feel empowered to take action to combat climate change in their individual communities.
Bringing Heroes Online
Elluminate's Fire and Ice enabled students to share information about home towns, schools, and heroes. Recently, schools in Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Israel worked together online to write stories and help each other understand local cultural heroes.
Elementary Schools from North America, Iraq, and Africa Collaborate Live to Promote Peace
The Machinto project is based on a Japanese picture book about a little girl who is killed in the Hiroshima bomb in 1945. The girl comes back to life as a dove who spreads peace and hope to children in the world who are affected by war. Over the past several months, students from various countries have leveraged the internet to communicate their feelings and thoughts about this topic by engaging in online forums, sharing photographs and artwork, and developing their own picture book about peace and friendship.
Fire and Ice Project Named Finalist for Stockholm Challenge Award
Elluminate's Fire and Ice initiative was selected as a finalist for the prestigious Stockholm Challenge Award, a biannual international competition that showcases the world's best information and communications technology projects. The award recognizes those ICT projects that show convincing benefits to people and communities, wide social impact, and proof of future sustainability.
Elluminate Named 2007 Tech Museum Awards laureate for Fire & Ice Program
Sponsored by The Tech Museum of Innovation, one of the country's premier science and technology museums, and presented by Applied Materials, Inc., The Tech Museum Awards honor individuals who are applying technology to benefit humanity and spark global change. Chosen by a panel of prestigious international judges, the Laureates must demonstrate the use of technology to significantly improve the human condition. Elluminate was selected from hundreds of nominations sent from 68 countries for its groundbreaking Fire & Ice online classroom series.
» Read press release | » View video interview of winners
Elluminate Named to Fast Company Magazine's Fast 50 List for Learning Across Borders Initiative
Fast 50 is Fast Company magazine's annual readers' challenge, a global search for people doing extraordinary things with a goal of reminding the world of all the good that's created when passionate people with big ideas and strong convictions are determined to make a difference. After a nationwide vote, the magazine's readers named Elluminate one of the top 50 favorite companies for its Learning Across Borders initiative.
- November 2009 - Da-Ai TV (Taiwan): Fire and Ice's Cindea Hung and students from her school's Organic Garden project are interviewed by Taiwanese national TV. The project was recently named finalist for the prestigious Global Junior Challenge contest in Italy. Watch video
October 2009: A report from Burkina National Television: Elluminate and Infolec launch West Africa’s first Classroom of the Future and online distance training facility in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Watch Video- July 2009 -- Shaw TV News (Canada): Stace Wills showcases Elluminate’s “Classroom of the Future” for training projects in developing countries. Watch Video
- July 2009 -- National TV (Burkina Faso): Fire and Ice’s Jules Ouedraogo showcases Malaria training program for Burkina health care workers
- June 2009 -- Shenzhen TV (China): Elluminate and LANCELOT train China students in English. Video from the Fire and Ice Final Ceremony at Huangpu School
- November 2008 -- Canada TV News: Stace Wills discusses Fire and Ice activities in West Africa
- March 2008 – Rio TV Sul (Brazil): Video from Fire and Ice school in Massambara, Brazil , showcasing their Organic Garden project
- February 2008 -- CBC TV Business News (Canada): Elluminate’s Fire and Ice program featured. Watch Video
- November 2007 -- Stace Wills and Dan Rickard interviewed by the Tech Museum Awards in San Jose, CA, USA
- November 2007 -- Elluminate Fire and Ice video for the Tech Museum Awards, San Jose, CA, USA
2009
Elluminate and partner Infolec showcase three years of collaborative educational projects in Burkina Faso, West Africa.
Watch Video- English Language Training -- Fire and Ice’s Huangpu School English Language and Cultural Exchange Program, Shenzhen, China
- Fire and Ice: Organic Garden Series: view video highlights from Fire and Ice’s organic garden series, which includes schools from Taiwan, Mali, Cuba, Turkey, Colombia, and many others…
2008
- October -- Fire and Ice Leadership Award Ceremony in West African village of Pabré, Burkina Faso
- June -- Fire and Ice III: Climate Change Series: view the Elluminate Live! recording of the Climate Change project involving schools from Canada, U.S., Colombia, and West Africa.
- February -- Massambara, Brazil: Fire and Ice video from Organic Garden project
- January -- Fire and Ice school in Burkina Faso participates in Fire and Ice Climate Change series with schools from Canada, U.S., and Colombia
2007
- November -- Fire and Ice video from school in Massambara, Brazil
- April – Fire and Ice Climate Change series with schools from Brazil, Canada, and Mozambique: Video | Recording