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BoomWriter Media

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BoomWriter Media, a Cambridge-based digital education company, engages children and educators in content creation and storytelling collaboration. Our innovative, Web-based publishing platform brings passionate educators, technology experts, corporate sponsors, enthusiastic parents, and students together to promote and develop creativity, writing, reading, critical thinking and other essential 21st century literacy skills. BoomWriter Media partners with authors, celebrities, and educators, provides story starts: 1st chapters spark kids’ imaginations and inspire story collaboration with classmates and children in competition for publication. Teachers and students from more than 4,000 schools in 60 countries have already joined the BoomWriter community.

BoomWriter brings together published authors, creative writing, social media and gamification to provide children a unique approach to writing stories as well as getting published. BoomWriter provides a competitive writing platform that can be integrated into a variety of curriculum and is aligned with the Common Core State Standards in the USA. Everyone wins! Schools and teachers have a more engaging creative writing tool and students have fun in the process.

Recent Milestones

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  BoomWriter Media received $240k in Venture Round funding. (5/2/12)
  Posted 5/2/12 at 7:51pm via masshightech.com

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1. Boomwriter raises $240K, brings writing software to students (masshightech.com) [edit]