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AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc. (AWS) is the world’s largest live weather content provider. This content is delivered by broadcasters on their weathercasts from schools and on the Internet through WeatherBug.com. Established in 1993, AWS is the parent corporation of AWS WeatherBug™, WeatherBug Brand Wrap, WeatherNet+ and School WeatherNet program.

AWS School WeatherNet Program
AWS is best known for its award-winning school program that provides live weather data to teachers and students in over 5,000 neighborhood schools. The data is processed by WeatherNet software and applied to daily curriculum to aid individual learning in the real world and to help educators meet National Education Standards.

AWS WeatherNet™ + Program
With more than 100 local broadcast partners and 5,000 neighborhood school weather stations across the nation, the School Weather Network is the largest automated weather station network in the world. Each WeatherNet System provides instant online and on-air weather direct from each school location to its local broadcast affiliates. Both broadcast stations and schools benefit from AWS’ innovative combination of live weather and real-world educational curriculum.

Live Weather Stations
A complete weather station is equipped with both an external rooftop WeatherNet monitoring system and an InstaCam.

A WeatherNet System is a real-time commercial weather monitoring system. It measures outdoor and indoor temperatures, rainfall, relative humidity, light intensity, wind speed and direction and barometric pressure.

The AWS InstaCam is a high-performance outdoor camera that views outside weather conditions and shows live and time-lapsed weather images.

The WeatherNet System delivers weather data via the Internet and to web sites, television stations, Nextel wireless phones and the AWS WeatherBug™.

AWS WeatherBug ™——WeatherBug.com
The award-winning AWS WeatherBug™ offers live neighborhood weather content with a single click of the mouse. The WeatherBug has 3 million users.

Once activated, WeatherBug™ connects with AWS’ network of more than 5,000 reporting sites to instantly link users to local weather conditions, forecasts, storm warnings and alerts, radar and weather cam images.

AWS WeatherBug Online Weather Network
The Online Network the largest weather network in the world. It is four times larger than the National Weather Service with 5,000 neighborhood schools and 100 broadcast stations across the United States.

AWS WeatherBug BrandWrap
The largest Interactive Advertising Unit at 625x433 on the web. The BrandWrap hugs the surface of the WeatherBug, allowing advertisers to wrap advertising messages around live weather. The BrandWrap gives advertiser the ability to target specific demographics: gender, income, age, occupation, users at home and at work.

Awards

• USA Today Hotsite (1/30/01)
  
• ZDNet Four-Star rating WeatherBug™ (February, 2001)
  
• WeatherBug, the World’s Fastest growing website 4th quarter 2000. Forbes.com (2/26/01)
  
• WeatherBug™ ranked in the Top 10 “stickiest sites” by Nielsen/Net Ratings (July 2000)
  
• Media & Methods National Award for Excellence in Education, for the AWS School WeatherNet Program. This K-12 program is currently in place at more than 5,000 schools globally (January, 2000)
  
• ZDNet Five-Star rating (highest-possible) for AWS’ Wireless Weather PQA (April 2000) and WeatherBug™(July 2000)
  
• Editor’s Pick of Show for Advancement in the Art and Science of Television Broadcast, National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2000 convention, for AWS WeatherBug™ PC desktop application (April 2000)
  
• WeatherBug™ selected as Microsoft/WUGNET Shareware Pick of the Week (July 2000)