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MediaSpark captures double Silver Award
win at Omni Intermedia Awards and an
Honorable Mention for Ingenuity by Macromedia

Sydney, Nova Scotia, February 13, 2001 - MediaSpark IT Solutions Inc., an emerging IT company, announced today its GoVenture product won 2 Silver Awards at the Omni Intermedia Awards Show and an Honorable Mention for Ingenuity by Macromedia at the eLearning Innovation Awards Show. Both wins took place in the US.

The Omni Awards recognize outstanding production, design and content in the converging fields of television, film, Internet, interactive media and 3D animation. The GoVenture - Live the Life of an Entrepreneur CD-ROM won silver in the Interactive Multimedia Education category and the GoVenture.NETwork Internet portal won silver in the Internet Education category. The competition drew over 500 entries reviewed by 25 judges. Past Omni winners have included Dreamworks SKG, Warner Brothers, Discovery Channel, MTV, Ford, and Arthur Anderson.

Macromedia Inc. - whose shockwave, flash, and director technologies are staples of the Internet and new media industries - honors outstanding instructional content developed with Macromedia software. Macromedia has also expressed their desire to develop a case study spotlighting the development of GoVenture, in order to promote the capabilities of Macromedia software tools at various industry events.

MediaSpark President and CEO Mathew Georghiou said, "We are pleased to receive continued recognition by such industry leaders. This further validates our business model and objective of creating the most effective learning products in the world."

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