Annual Virtual Business Scholarship Offered to Promising
Business & Marketing Students

Knowledge Matters, Inc.
Contact: Maureen Ginley
Ginley@knowledgematters.com
(413) 587-9940

The Virtual Business Scholarship is an annual scholarship available to marketing and business students currently enrolled in their junior or senior year of high school throughout the country. Continuing education tuition has risen alarmingly and this scholarship is intended to help defray some of that expense. The scholarship is provided in cooperation with various state departments of education around the nation as well as BPA, DECA and FBLA state organizations.

With over 3,000 installations of our software in schools within the United States, Knowledge Matters has enjoyed an excellent working relationship with educators and students throughout the country. This scholarship is one way of supporting the effort teachers put in and the accomplishments their students have made. These teachers are enabling their students to stay competitive by equipping them with the necessary tools to do so.

To be eligible for nomination by their teachers, students must exhibit excellence in business or marketing classes and show interest and accomplishment in the use of technologies in these subjects. There will be three scholarships awarded nationally. The student who wins first place will receive $1,000. The second place winner will receive $500 and third, $250.

Full details and nomination forms will be available at www.KnowledgeMatters.com/Scholarships or by clicking on the Virtual Business Scholarship link found on the Knowledge Matters, Inc. home page, www.KnowledgeMatters.com. Each state has a unique code that is needed to view the application and that code will be emailed to all teachers in the Business, Marketing and IT Division. The deadline for nominations is April 1, 2008 and an independent panel of judges will make final selections.

Knowledge Matters, Inc. was founded in 1997 based on a contract with the U.S. Department of Education to develop visual, affordable simulations for high schools. The company’s industry-leading Virtual Business® business and marketing simulations are now used in schools within all fifty states, Canada, and abroad. The company’s strategic partners include Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, which correlates business and marketing textbooks with Virtual Business simulations, and FBLA and DECA, which run official competitions and special events based on software from Knowledge Matters.