New Products Events

These announcements are about events for or about children of all ages. The most recent announcements are listed first. For a complete list of the new product and services announcements here at KidSource, including a "what's new" list, visit the New Products area main page.

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• Science Steps Outside the Classroom: Innovative Program

  For too many middle school students, science can be a year-long read through a textbook punctuated only by the occasional lab experiment. But for the 800 sixth through eighth graders who participated in the Bayer/NSF Award for Community Innovation during the 1996-97 school year, science became a real-life adventure.

• Gearing Up For 1998 - Take A Kid Fishing

  In 1998, the Kids All-American Fishing Derby, the largest program of its kind in the world, will be in its 12th year of providing fishing information and fun across the nation. During the history of the program, nearly 4.5 million kids and family members have participated in events locally hosted each year. Groups interested in hosting a derby event in 1998 should contact "Hooked on Fishing" prior to December 1, 1997.

• Connect With Kids -- Volunteer to Wire a School on NetDay

  NetDay is the grassroots effort to network K-12 schools using volunteer labor and donated materials. Organizers estimate that since the first NetDay in 1996 more than 150,000 K-12 classrooms have been wired by NetDay volunteers in what's been called a "high-tech barnraising."