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Russ
Rossi and his wife of Vancouver, Canada have five children between the
ages of
three to 14. When their oldest son Cody was in grade seven,
Rossi used a series of traditional cardboard flash cards to help him
remember facts and numbers. Cody’s marks skyrocketed in a matter
of months.
His other school-age children wanted their own flash cards, and before he knew it Russ Rossi was tied up for nearly three hours every night. Doing homework. He realized he needed a high-tech solution. A computer programmer for twenty-five years, Rossi did what he knew best. Over a three-year period with his company On-Track Training, he developed a software program that was easy to use, and simple for his children to send back and forth via e-mail to share quizzes with their friends. The program caught on fast. If a question was answered incorrectly, the students could take the quiz over and over again, to test themselves on how much they learned on each subject. It improved their memory skills and study habits. The students got better marks. Soon, parents were asking for new versions of the electronic flash cards in everything from English grammar, French verbs, math, science and social studies. Teachers found out about the program; they wanted copies for their classrooms. Today’s version of the program is now being used in fifty schools world-wide. Long-time friend Bill Low, formerly with IBM, and known as ‘the father of the PC’, told Rossi to get the program into intellectual property, get it to market – and he asked if he could get a copy for his kids. “There is something magical about the program, which was named Quizam® after a series of focus groups with schools, teachers, students and parents,” says Rossi. It’s versatile, and can be accessed any time, by any one, including students from kindergarten to grade 12, through to university. We’ve developed trivia quizzes, a boat license quiz, and a Cessna 172 Aircraft Checkout quiz, too.” Quizzes with images of world flags, world leaders and famous images around the world are also available. The Vancouver Courier
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