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WeatherBug and SchoolTube Announce Technology Agreement to Integrate WeatherBug Content for Students and Teachers across the Country

Washington, DC., NECC (Booth #1144), — WeatherBug and SchoolTube announced today a technology agreement to integrate WeatherBug live, local weather content and videos for students and teachers across the country. Available this fall, students and teachers will be able to use WeatherBug weather graphics, maps, and real-time weather information from its national network of 8,000 weather stations to generate and post weather-centric videos via the SchoolTube platform.

This same weather content is available through the WeatherBug Schools program to help enhance education through technology and to augment math, science and geography lessons in thousands of schools nationwide. In addition, WeatherBug media partners, that include weather experts and meteorologists at leading TV stations across the nation, also use this same content on-air during their local newscasts.

"We see this partnership as another great opportunity to extend the WeatherBug brand and to provide many new students and teachers with our professional weather content," said Frank McCathran, Director, WeatherBug Education and Media Services. "We are very excited to partner with SchoolTube to help encourage students to produce innovative and creative videos by incorporating live weather information from their school or from anywhere in the world."

SchoolTube is a network of students, educators, and industry working together to foster video production and Internet publishing in a safe online learning environment. SchoolTube is nationally endorsed by premier education associations such as The Association for Career and Technical Education, National Association of Secondary School Principals, National Association of Schools Counsel and many others.

"We are proud to welcome WeatherBug as another great partner in the SchoolTube family and look forward to launching at the beginning of the school year," said Carl Arizpe, President and Founder of SchoolTube. "We are excited to provide students with a great new way to incorporate dynamic and engaging content while also helping them to learn more about the environment."

About SchoolTube
SchoolTube provides students and educators a safe, world class, and FREE media sharing website that is nationally endorsed by premier education associations. SchoolTube is the recognized leader for moderated, video sharing for teachers and students. Student created materials on SchoolTube must be approved by registered teachers, follow local school guidelines, and adhere to our high standards to be published on SchoolTube.com. For more information on SchoolTube.com, please visit http://www.schooltube.com or call 1.314.433.3020 x718.

About WeatherBug Schools
The WeatherBug Schools Program (http://www.weatherbugschools.com) is a nationally recognized program which provides an engaging teaching tool for schools nationwide. The program enables teachers to use current and historical weather conditions in interactive, online lessons and activities to teach the fundamentals of the science of meteorology, geography and math, utilizing data from their own weather station or any of the thousands of weather stations in the WeatherBug Network.

For more information on the WeatherBug Schools program, please visit http://www.weatherbugschools.com or call 1.800.544.4429.

About WeatherBug
WeatherBug (http://www.weatherbug.com and http://www.weatherbugprofessional.com) observes, organizes and distributes the most precise global weather intelligence. As a trusted source of dynamic weather information, WeatherBug empowers society to make more informed weather-related decisions. Millions of consumers and professional organizations, including the National Weather Service, rely on WeatherBug to plan daily activities, safeguard lives and improve business operations. WeatherBug is a brand of AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc. (http://www.aws.com)