Since its launch in Sept. 1998, has garnered several web review kudos for quality, educational content, creativity and other kid-worthy criteria. We're proud to display these "Sci4Kudos" here, and will continue exploring ways to improve the site further.

From the HMS Beagle, a biweekly webzine for biological and medical researchers that includes a daily sampling of high-quality Web resources. An August 20, 1999 Web pick of the day, Sci4Kids appeared on HMS Beagle's BioMedLink page (registration required).

From the Tech Museum of Innovation, in Silicon Valley, California, Tech10 offers monthly reviews of the 10 best technology and science sites of the Web. Ours was a top pick for March 1999.

Skewl Sites is a monthly newsletter that highlights the "Best of Educational Web Sites." Ours appeared in the March 1999 Skewl Sites Life-Science section.

Based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Scout Report hosts weekly collections of useful Internet sites for discerning "Internauts." The Scout Report featured Sci4Kids October 2, 1998. Click here for its review.

The National Science Teachers Foundation has selected several Sci4Kids stories as part of its SciLinks program, which seeks to provide students, teachers, parents, and others with on-line resources that complement textbook materials. You can read more about the program at: http://www.scilinks.org/certificate.htm. Sci4Kids stories now linked to it include:

Plants Grow Better By Cleaning Water and Eating Fish Poop

Plants Fight Off Foreign Invaders

Dust Mites in Dog Food Can Mean Trouble For "Spot!"

Nightmare on Elm Street (The Happy Sequel...)

Cracking Nature's Color-Code for Flowers

WEB FEET is a premier subject guide to the best Web sites for students, researchers, the general public and is the first comprehensive Web guide that's interactive and updated monthly. The WEB FEET Seal of Approval tells teachers, librarians, parents, and students that a particular site is especially valuable for research, teaching, or general interest. Sci4Kids appeared in the WEB FEET's Monthly Subject Guide to Best Web sites.

Sci4Kids' contents page was cited as a techLEARNING.com Site of the Day for July 13, 2001. A review of the website appears at: http://www.techlearning.com/content/outlook/webpicks/archive/2001/7-13.html. TechLearning is an online education resource for technology leaders, teachers and their students, located on the Web at: http://www.techlearning.com/index.html.

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