Sports Bytes Delivers Math and Science Sports Quizzes to Mobile Phones Worldwide

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(Free-Press-Release.com) July 9, 2008 -- Washington, D.C. (July 9, 2008) - Hot Lava Software, Inc. is collaborating with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, MO, to use the most ubiquitous computing platform on the planet -- the mobile phone -- to deliver on-demand Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education that is accessible and captivating.

During the summer of 2008 Hot Lava Software will use mobile phone technology at major summer sports events -- soccer, baseball, basketball, swimming and cycling -- to engage more than 100,000 people worldwide with a Sports Bytes Competition. Sports Bytes are sports themed STEM educational modules -- quick quizzes -- delivered via mobile phones.

The Sports Bytes Competition will be live at select August D.C. United soccer games as well as the Kansas City T-Bones, Frederick Keys, Aberdeen Ironbirds, Bowie Baysox, Wilmington Blue Rocks and Delmarva Shorebirds baseball games, during July and August 2008. Those not attending a game can access the Sports Bytes content via www.hdwap.com/sport7 from a mobile phone web browser.

Users can access these STEM educational modules while attending summer sports events. When users correctly answer at least one Sports Bytes quiz item, they qualify for a chance to win a stadium prize pack. Prize packs can include kajeet mobile phones, first throws at a minor league baseball game, team jerseys and baseball caps and other items related to each team.

About Hot Lava Software, Inc.

Hot Lava Software provides mobile content solutions and a mobile content design, authoring and publishing solution to corporations, governments and universities around the world. More information is available at: http://www.hotlavasoftware.com/

About the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private, nonpartisan foundation that works to harness the power of entrepreneurship and innovation to grow economies and improve human welfare. Through its research and other initiatives, the Kauffman Foundation aims to open young people's eyes to the possibility of entrepreneurship, promote entrepreneurship education, raise awareness of entrepreneurship-friendly policies and find alternative pathways for the commercialization of new knowledge and technologies. It also works to prepare students to be innovators, entrepreneurs and skilled workers in the 21st century economy through initiatives designed to improve learning in math, engineering, science and technology. Founded by late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Kauffman, the Foundation has more than $2.4 billion in assets. More information is available at: http://www.kauffman.org/

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