[BCMA] Agents of Discovery Heritage BC Award Press Release

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*



Agents of Discovery Wins Heritage BC Award with Trethewey House Heritage
Site

*Prestigious Award Won in the Category of Heritage Education and Awareness*



*Abbotsford, BC, March 20, 2018:* Agents of Discovery
<http://www.agentsofdiscovery.com>, in partnership with Heritage Abbotsford
Society, has won a Heritage BC Recognition Award
<https://heritagebc.ca/events-activities/heritage-awards/> in the category
of Heritage Education and Awareness. The Heritage BC Award recognizes and
celebrates the outstanding, impressive, and significant achievements in
heritage conservation among individuals, organizations, groups, businesses,
and government in communities across B.C.

Heritage Abbotsford Society
<http://www.tretheweyhouse.ca/about/trethewey-house-heritage-site/>
operates Trethewey House Heritage Site <http://www.tretheweyhouse.ca/>
through a fee-for-service with the City of Abbotsford. As part of its
operations, the Society has implemented Agents of Discovery, a platform and
mobile game that gets kids active and learning about the world around them.

“We are motivated by bringing innovative education to communities and we
are thrilled to have won this year’s Heritage BC Award with Trethewey House
Heritage Site,” said Mary Clark, CEO of Agents of Discovery. “Trethewey
House has done an absolutely fantastic job at using our platform to create
compelling and exciting games for their visitors.”

Trethewey House Heritage Site uses Agents of Discovery as a fun and
innovative way of engaging visitors with Abbotsford’s rich history.

“We have seen a tremendous boost in engagement from our visitors after
implementing Agents of Discovery,” said Christina Reid, Executive Director
of Trethewey House. “We were so thrilled to have received this award and be
recognized for the effort and passion we put into educating our community
with Abbotsford’s history.”

The presentation of awards will take place at the annual conference in New
Westminster on May 11, 2018.

To play the Trethewey House Heritage Site’s Mission, download the Agents of
Discovery app on Google Play
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mstar.aod> or the App
Store <https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/agents-of-discovery/id986188357?mt=8>,
then download the Trethewey House Heritage Site Mission. No data or WiFi is
required to play the Mission once it has been downloaded.


*About Heritage Abbotsford Society*

Heritage Abbotsford Society is the registered charity which operates
Trethewey House Heritage Site under a fee-for-service Agreement with the
City of Abbotsford. The Mission of the Society is to be the memory of the
community by preserving and interpreting its history. Functions of this
mandate are to preserve, study and exhibit artifacts and archival material,
and to educate and entertain the public. Operating from the Heritage Site,
the Society provides heritage and youth educational programming and events
to thousands of Abbotsford residents and visitors of all ages every year.
Educational programs and activities include tours of Trethewey House, and
the Upper Sumas BCER station, exhibits and displays, including the one-room
schoolhouse experience and the Heritage Gallery exhibits, along with
walking tours, heritage-themed events and workshops, interpretive
educational and outreach programs, and summer camps for youth and children.
For more information, please visit www.tretheweyhouse.ca/



*About Agents of Discovery*

Agents of Discovery, winner of the 2016 Best App-Based Game at the European
Conference on Game Based Learning, is an innovative educational tech
platform that utilizes web, mobile and the latest in augmented reality
technologies to get kids active and learning about the world around them.
Agents of Discovery provides educators with a unique way to gamify
information, incentivizing kids to be active while learning and exploring.
The easy-to-use Mission Maker allows educators to pull challenges from
their extensive Agency Library or to create customized content specific to
their site. Educators can then easily publish Missions for kids to complete
on tablets or their own smart devices. For more information, please visit
www.agentsofdiscovery.com



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Media Contact:

Alexandra Pony

apony at agentsofdiscovery.com

250.858.0656
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