"AXEL'S CHAIN REACTION"
Top Ebook in Emotional Education, internationally awarded, was inspired by the true story of an autistic child and narrates with interactive comics how he relates in his school through Art.
"At a crucial time where the unfortunate issues of school or street shootings in different countries, students killing students, bullying suicides, depression... emotional crises have become so repetitive. Axel addresses the issue of unity, empathy, the value of sensitivity in all US schools.
This story is about a child artist who suffers from bullying and intimidation. This Ebook works on tolerance, creativity, and metaphorically the causes and effects from the physical in nature to in one's personal and emotional life. "
John Higuera
CEO HigueraStudios.
It has won more than 20 awards in the USA, including Best Classroom Content, honored at a National event in Washington D.C
"Axel and his Chain Reaction" integrates multimedia and multi-point surface interactions, on the narrative created, and throughout the story being told. It is supported by videos, practical activities for children to make their own kinetic sculptures, open creation games and non-fiction educational content, designed to be used in the classroom according to academic and classroom guidelines, seeking to comply with COPPA regulations and to deliver academic content around art and physical kinetics, framed in an inclusive message.
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Highly Interactive.
The child lives a new experience interacting in many different ways with the Ebook, for example making decisions in the story, drawing on the screen, pushing elements, taking pictures, erasing with the fingers, among others, immersing him in a reality that drives his creative mind.
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Proposes handicrafts
From the Ebook itself, several exercises are proposed to the child that can be done outside the digital device, with materials by making crafts at home, creating mobile sculptures that play with kinetic energy. Generating a mixed experience between the digital world and the real world.
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MINTIC has funded the Ebook twice.
MINTIC has twice supported the growth of this successful Ebook, the first time to make the Spanish version, since it was initially made in English for the US market, and the second time to create a derivative product focused on educating parents and teachers in the management of bullying situations and other skills to create an inclusive school environment.
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Winner of more than 20 Awards in the USA.
This Ebook has been widely awarded in the USA, with more than 20 awards including the Best Classroom App Award, the most prestigious and desired recognition by all.
In 2017-2018 the government of Colombia through the Ministry of Technologies and COLCIENCIAS, the entity in charge of promoting scientific research and the development of new technologies of the government of Colombia, funded a new application based on the story of the original Axel's Chain Reaction AppBook, but focused on the education of Parents and Teachers to accompany the child with the overall purpose of improving inclusion in all schools and developing empathic and social skills so necessary today.
