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Arnold's All-Stars partners with Nortel Networks Kidz Online to provide technology-training to after school programs

Innovative producers of interactive technology training extend their Broadband platform to enrich the curriculum of after-school program founded by Arnold Schwarzenegger

Los Angeles, California - Arnold's All-Stars, a leading California after school program and Nortel Networks Kidz Online (NNKOL), a nonprofit organization that produces cutting-edge peer-to-peer training, have announced an agreement whereby NNKOL will provide the curriculum and streaming video content to teach technology-related skills at participating schools.

Based in Herndon, Virginia, NNKOL has recently launched development and production of its five broadband channels at a new Los Angeles studio. The Arnold's All-Stars staff, which has recently been trained during a full-day workshop at the NNKOL studio, will be provided with a detailed, step-by-step curriculum to bring into the classroom. Combined with NNKOL's interactive streaming video library, available free over the Internet to all students through their website, this partnership assures that the students will have access to an up-to-date, entertaining technology education. This combination of resources will translate into the development of practical, real-world career skills.

Executive Director of Arnold's All-Stars, Gary Moody stated, "This pilot program, underway at four Los Angeles middle schools, will serve as a model for California and the nation. We are proving that well-managed and creative after school programs can provide valuable skills for our youth so that they can become productive members of our hi-tech economy."

The partnership between Arnold's All-Stars and NNKOL seeks to cement the foundation for this type of innovative collaboration, providing an example of what is possible and what is available to educators and after-school programs across North America.

According to Phil Cruver, President of NNKOL, "We're supplying the curriculum and our streaming videos will serve as learning tools. This will empower the enthusiastic staff at Arnold's All Stars to teach and guide the students, as they get a head start on the career skills required for tomorrow's workers. The media-rich curriculum created for Arnold's All-Stars should serve as a model for the marriage of technology and after school programs nationwide."

About Arnolds All-Stars
Founded by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the spring of 2002, with the support of Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn, Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Los Angeles Sheriff and Police Departments, Arnold’s All-Stars is a program dedicated to creating top quality after-school programs for Los Angeles middle school children five days a week on a year round basis. It currently serves four schools within L.A. City and L.A County. The program also serves as the role model for other after-school programs throughout the nation, providing academic, recreational, cultural and life skills, giving young people dynamic and exciting opportunities for success. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.arnoldsallstars.org.

About Nortel Networks Kidz Online
Nortel Networks Kidz Online is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to preparing students and teachers to live and work with the new technologies that pervade their lives. This is accomplished through innovative kidz teaching kids training, which is distributed using advanced digital technologies. Nortel Networks, the signature sponsor for Kidz Online, is an industry leader and innovator focused on transforming how the world communicates and exchanges information.

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