Vancouver BC – Netgenetix Web Project Wins Prestigious Online Award!
Netgenetix Media announced today that its client, Science World, has won the coveted, Exploratorium’s “Ten Cool Sites” Award for educational excellence for its Engaging Science online games. Netgenetix Media was a major contributor to the project by building the Flash gaming engines running each of the games and also by assembling each of the 6 science games using the industry leading software Macromedia Flash.
www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/sciencesites.html - award site
This internationally recognized online award is given to only 10 web sites that embody excellence towards educating the online public about our world. “We’re proud to play a key role in this project’s success” said Leigh Byblow, president of Netgenetix Media, “Our team’s technical Flash expertise is incredibly strong and they put forth an incredible effort.”
Science World has contracted Netgenetix Media to build six additional games to do with body sciences. The new online edutainment games are due to be released in July of 2005.
Online since 1993, the museum for science, art and human perception was one of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide Web. The Exploratorium site now contains over 15,000 Web pages exploring hundreds of different topics. The site serves eighteen million visitors a year, making it one of the most visited museum web sites in the world. The physical museum is housed within the walls of San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts. The Exploratorium is a collage of hundreds of science, art, and human perception exhibits. It is also a leader in the movement to promote museums as educational centers.
Science World British Columbia, a self-supporting non-profit organization, stimulates positive attitudes towards science and technology in a fun interactive environment, promoting the development of a knowledge-based society in British Columbia.
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Vancouver BC – Financial software vendor, FINCAD Corporation, selects Netgenetix to redevelop its corporate identity.
FINCAD Corporation (formerly FinancialCAD Corporation) undergoes new corporate identity development. Netgenetix Media announced today that FINCAD has chosen the Vancouver-based business solutions provider to develop its visual identity.
The work will commence immediately and is to be completed in multiple phases finishing in August. The first phase involves a reworking of their existing logo and an extensive modification of many of its online graphical elements. The goal of the first phase is to modernize the look and feel of the identity and to give the future phases of the project a solid foundation to build from. The second phase involves the development of all of FINCAD’s print collateral including business cards, collateral folders, CD covers and packaging, brochures, stationary and other print materials. The third phase is a further development on the web site as well as tying the look and feel into their suite of software products.
FINCAD provides an integrated family of financial instrument management software products, financial information, application services and development tools to people who work with financial instruments. In its twelve-year history, FINCAD has become the standard for financial instrument valuation with the widespread use of its FINCAD XL and FINCAD Developer analytics tool kits. Their software can be found in over 60 countries including 140 Fortune 500 companies, 450 banks and over 200 investment management companies.
“We’ve been working with FINCAD for a couple years now and we’ve built a very strong relationship.” stated Leigh Byblow, President and Co-Founder of Netgenetix Media. “In the past our focus has been primarily web but we’re ready to show our clients and competitors that we go well beyond the superhighway. Building a strong Corporate ID for a key industry innovator is the best way to demonstrate this.”
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