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Katherine Anne Emery and Caitlin Kennedy Martin worked in collaboration to design and implement this site. They will receive their MA at Stanford University in the Learning, Design and Technology progarm in June of 1999.

Katherine Anne Emery, Director of Content
Katherine's focus changes daily, which is both exhilerating and exhausting. She is interested in storytelling, specifically the use of visual representation of information in the storytelling process. She is also interested in the motivational effects of computer use on teens. Breathe. Prior to graduate school she taught French in Greenwood, Mississippi, worked as a children's book editor at Henry Holt in New York City and worked in the animation department at Pixar Animation Studios. Katherine received her BA in French Literature and Creative Writing at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Caitlin Kennedy Martin, Design Director
Caitlin's focus is on the design of software for children. She is extremely interested in the potential of technology to allow, encourage, and inspire exploration and innovation among children. Specifically, in how girls use and view technology, and in software which provides children with materials, allowing them to construct their own solutions to complex problems. She is especially intrigued by the areas of logic, puzzles, and problem solving. Prior to graduate school she worked as a children's book designer at Farrar, Straus and Giroux in New York City. She received her BA in English Literature from the Univeristy of New Hampshire, with a minor in Studio Art.

Acknowledgments
We would like to extend a special thanks to Margo Nanny for encouraging us to pursue this project. We would also like to thank the following people for their interest, help, contributions, and support:
Kristin Hooper Woolsey, Gayle Curtis, Rajat Paharia, Marney Morris and the students in CS 377C, Wayne Studer, Don Rawitsch, Ann McCormick, Liz Russel, Patty DiPriest, Heidi Gilman, Debra Lieberman, Bay CHI Kids Group, Bethany Kay, Decker Walker and the LDT students, Tim Lenoir, Allen Cypher, Charles Kerns, Henry Olds, Marge Cappo, Annie Fox, Holly Brady, Mark Loughridge, Bill Purdy, Jane Boston, Student from Harvard's Technology in Education program, Columbia's Instructional Technology and Media program, SFSU's Interactive Technology program and NorthWestern's Institute for the Learning Sciences, Alan Coe, Brigid Barron, Victor Haseman, Steve...,