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Zoey’s Room is a national online community for 10- to 14-year-old girls, encouraging their interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Hip cyberhostess Zoey chats live with the girls every day after school. No other website like this interacts with girls on such a personal level to kick start their interest in "hard skills." Zoey’s Room has worked closely with the Federal Trade Commission to follow COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) for registering our members and was the first online learning network to check the identity of the parent through a third-party filter. Not only do we have safety measures built into our registration process, but Zoey and other characters we continue to build are avatars, online personas of a real junior staff members who are trained to be real-time hosts of the room. Our overall goal is to create the safest interactive communities available.

Zoey’s Room offers young girls a platform for being involved in the computer age and advancing their fascination with technology in a safe environment where they can discuss personal challenges. Under the auspices of adult facilitators, the associated Zoey’s Room after-school clubs bring girls together to explore and solve real-world applications of web-based learning. Self-paced activities, the Tec-Treks, are fun online and offline activities in science, technology, engineering and math and encourage girls to use technology and shows them how to create user-generated program content.


In Development: Max's Room (recently called xDream Challenge)

In the United States, between 16 and 33 percent of children and adolescents are overweight or are at risk of being overweight. As PSF’s research has shown, youth are drawn to activities that encompass technology. People commonly associate obesity and unhealthy eating habits with sedentary activities like playing computer games. The calculated irony of Max's Room is that it allows players to get physically fit without letting their computer get dusty.

Using Zoey’s Room as a model, we are in the Research and Design phase of the Max's Room and looking for developers and investors for Development and Implementation. If you’d like to be a part of this revolutionary idea to Maximize Kids’ Health, please contact us!

 

 

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