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Educational Consortium. Lead by ImmersionPresents, based at the Mystic Aquarium and Institute for

Exploration in Mystic, Connecticut, this consortium includes a growing network of Museums, Science Centers, and Aquariums as well as Boys and Girls Clubs sites and the Web-based JASON Project.

Using newly constructed studios and production facili- ties next to URI's Inner Space Center and in Mystic; a team of producers and educators have, over the last two years, used the "live" feeds coming from the Brown to produce a series of educational programs feed to millions of K-12 students and teachers, and to the general public across the country, making them more aware of the importance of the oceans to their daily lives.

Production center next to Inner Space Center at URI/GSO (upper right) creates "live" programs transmitted via

Internet2 to a network of museums, science centers, and aquariums headquartered at Mystic Aquarium and Institute for Exploration in Mystic, Connecticut (bottom). 30 MTR March 2006

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