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Press ReleasesPress > March 17, 2006 Release Willow Hill School Joins CBS 4 Boston School Weather Net Sudbury, MA – March 17, 2006 – Willow Hill School today announced it has it has joined the CBS 4 Boston School Weather Net program. Willow Hill School is in the process of installing a new WeatherBug Tracking Station that will provide live, neighborhood level weather conditions to CBS 4 Boston meteorologists and the local community. The school will also use the WeatherBug Tracking Station to enhance curriculum under an innovative program called WeatherBug Achieve co-developed by CBS 4 Boston and AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc. Dr. Rhonda Taft-Farrell, Head of School at Willow Hill School, remarked, “This new program will strengthen our students’ learning experience across several different subject areas and give them a great sense pride in their school because we are providing a key service to the community. We are proud to be a part of this innovative program.” The Willow Hill School WeatherBug program was made possible through an exclusive partnership with CBS 4 Boston School Weather Net, which is committed to providing an engaging teaching tool for schools, while giving local residents the most local, real-time weather information available. Willow Hill School is a special education day school serving 59 students in grades 6 - 12. Students come to the School from more than 35 cities and towns throughout eastern Massachusetts. The school provides a supportive and individualized educational program for middle and high school students who are capable of advancing along a strong academic curriculum, but have experienced frustration in earlier school settings. WeatherBug Achieve is an award-winning, interactive, learning program that seamlessly integrates real-time local and national weather data and camera images into a range of science, math, technology and geography lessons for elementary, middle and high school students. WeatherBug Achieve brings live conditions into the classroom with a tool that is fun and easy for teachers and students, at all levels. The data is unique, as it is relative to the school and features current, local weather conditions right in their neighborhood and across the country. Under this innovative, hands-on program, student interest levels and scores consistently rise along with student and teacher morale. Teachers and administrators credit the program for adding tremendous value to their curriculum and boosting student self-confidence. “In the 2004-2005 school year more than 250,000 students and teachers logged in to WeatherBug Achieve to learn with real, live data and interactive lessons where students experienced hands-on learning,” said Bob Marshall, president and CEO of WeatherBug. “We are excited to add Willow Hill School to our community of schools and look forward to working with them on enhancing their teaching experience with WeatherBug Achieve.” Using WeatherBug Achieve, teachers can create customized learning activities based on current and historical weather conditions from the Willow Hill School weather station, such as wind speed or humidity. In addition, students can compare local weather conditions to data from more than 8,000 other WeatherBug Tracking Stations nationwide, primarily located at schools, that participate in the WeatherBug network and WeatherBug Achieve program. More than 100 local televisions stations nationwide also participate in the program. WeatherBug owns and operates the world’s largest weather network. In addition to the approximately 8,000 WeatherBug Tracking Stations, there are also 1,000 WeatherBug Cameras across the U.S. that display live and time-lapse weather conditions to enable organizations and individuals protect their property and lives. What makes WeatherBug so unique is its network and neighborhood level data (generated every two seconds) and the diverse industries that rely upon its depth and granularity. Alternative weather sources offer computer modeled forecasts and data based upon hourly reports from area airports. For more information on WeatherBug Achieve, visit http://www.weatherbugachieve.com. About WeatherBug®WeatherBug ensures that individuals, schools, businesses and government agencies receive the most precise live weather information, the most relevant weather reports, and the earliest weather warnings to safeguard property, lives and to plan with confidence. With 8,000 WeatherBug Tracking Stations and over 1,000 cameras primarily based at neighborhood schools and public safety facilities across the U.S., WeatherBug maintains the largest exclusive weather network in the world. The live, local weather conditions are delivered to millions of consumers via the Internet and mobile devices, more than 100 state and local government agencies including the National Weather Service, and to broadcast television stations, schools, and businesses. As such, WeatherBug is the #1 distributor of severe weather alerts to the public. WeatherBug data is unique as it is the only live, neighborhood weather available anywhere. WeatherBug is a brand of AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc. # # # Press Contacts:Debra Eisenberg Alyce Menton |
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