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Platform Shoes

 

Entrepreneur: Erin B. Reilly

Address:
PO Box 1222
Rockland, ME 04841

Telephone: (207) 594-1842
Email: erin@zoeysroom.com
Web Site: http://www.platformshoes.org

Grant Amount: $89,612 (2005); $41,666.66 (2007)

Mission Statement

Platform Shoes provides interactive educational programs for youth through web-based activities that integrate art and technology. The organization develops integrated e-learning models. Its curriculum-based activities prepare youth academically and socially to meet their educational challenges and deal with everyday life issues.

Purpose of Grant

(2005) The purpose of the grant is to further establish and expand programs and the number of participants.

(2007) To help expand Zoey's Room from a state/regional to a national model.

Additional Information

Platform Shoes Forum was founded in 2003 from the success of Zoey's  Room, a technology community for middle school girls, now a model  for  additional programs. Identifying a specific need to help children be prepared for school and their future, PSF's founders shared a common goal:  to use media  as a tool to help children learn.