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Montessorium joins Co.Lab, Zynga accelerator for educational games
SIOUX FALLS, S.D.— Montessorium, an educational game app that uses the principles of Montessori teaching, has been around for more than four years, but this month, the Sioux Falls, S.D.,-based startup is taking its games to an accelerator.
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New partnership puts Montessorium in position to “swing for the fences”
It’s back-to-school time, and education tech startup Montesorrium has more apps—instead of books—on their mind. This is thanks to a deal the three-year-old Sioux Falls company sealed Friday with San Francisco app maker Y Media Labs, the team behind apps for brands such as Lonely Planet and Sesame Street. “Y Media has been instrumental in…
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Montessori-based learning company releases latest app, Intro to Colors
In August 2010, a startup team from Sioux Falls got an unexpected message from Apple founder Steve Jobs. “The kids and parents will prove you right,” he wrote. “Keep going.” “And he was so right,” said Bobby George, who co-founded app production company Montessorium with his wife, June. Since then, their apps have been featured…
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Working Together: Sometimes lightning strikes
(Guest post by June and Bobby George.) It’s difficult to describe how we work together. It’s more of an intuition, or a posture, than anything else. Nonetheless, we thought we’d share a few thoughts on the process, how we envision our collaboration, charting out the strengths just as much as the weaknesses. We’ll also sprinkle…
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New Apple billboard features app of Sioux Falls startup
Two years after an appearance in an Apple ad on the small screen, the app of a Sioux Falls startup is now featured in a billboard campaign by the California company. “We couldn’t be more pleased to discover that Montessorium’s Intro to Letters app was featured in the new Apple iPad campaign,” co-founder Bobby George…
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App creator, storyteller team up to Kickstart ‘Montessori Blueprints’
Montessorium – which Silicon Prairie News profiled earlier today – is known for spreading the Montessori education approach through its suite of iPhone and iPad apps, but Hugh Weber, a parent of a student at the Baan Dek Montessori School, said that was just one way to do so. After dropping his daughter off at…
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Encouraged by Jobs, couple spreads Montessori mission through apps
Apps created by Montessorium, a Sioux Falls, S.D. firm that holds high the Montessori educational approach, have been downloaded around the world – but it might not have happened without personal encouragement from Steve Jobs. Montessori education is a child-centered, one-on-one approach to learning. When Bobby and June George (left), founders of the first Montessori…