DISTIL News Feed http://www.thedistilway.com/studio/ Distil Interactive News RSS en-us Response Ready wins First Place at Future Play Response Ready won First Place in the Future Serious Games category of the Arcademy Games Awards at Future Play 2007. Response Ready, created with CSA, teaches users the importance of advance preparation for an emergency through trial and error. The Future Play Conference brings together leaders in academia and industry to address future game development, game impacts and applications, and game talent. The Conference was held in Toronto from November 15-17. Click here to learn more.
http://www.distilinteractive.com November 19, 2007 DISTIL a finalist for the Ottawa Business Achievement Awards DISTIL Interactive has been selected as a Finalist for the Ottawa Business Achievement Awards in the New Business of the Year category. The Awards are presented by the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce, the area*s oldest leading business organization, which represents over 750 members. The Awards Gala will take place on November 22. Please click here for more information.
 http://www.distilinteractive.com November 9, 2007 Stephen Davies shares insights on Excellence on NQI Panel Stephen Davies, DISTIL*s Vice-President of Business Development, will be part of a panel on *Planning Your Excellence Journey* at the 23rd Canada Awards for Excellence and 2007 Performance Excellence Summit. The event, which is Canada*s premier celebration of excellence and quality in organizations, will be held by NQI in Toronto on October 24, 2007. The panel will discuss the steps to success in a company*s excellence journey and share insights on what to avoid and how to create a sustained commitment to excellence. Click here to learn more.
http://www.distilinteractive.com October 22nd, 2007 Response Ready a Finalist at I/ITSEC Response Ready, DISTIL*s emergency preparedness game, has been selected as a finalist in the 2007 Serious Games Showcase & Challenge held at the Interservice/Industry Training Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC). I/ITSEC, which will be held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando from 26-29 November, draws over 16,000 attendees annually. This year*s theme is *Maintaining the Edge ... Transforming the Force.*
 October 18th 2007 <link/> <description>DISTIL*s CTO Kenton White will join the Canadian Embassy in the Partners in Technology trade initiative from October 17-19. This event, sponsored by Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada and by Industry Canada, focuses on the fields of modeling, simulation, and training.<br/></description> <pubDate>October 15th 2007</pubDate> </item> <item> <title/> <link/> <description>One of our talented junior developers, Michael McCarthy, has entered one of his own games into the Jay Is Games competition. You can play Event Horizon, which implements the Ball Physics theme, <a href="http://jayisgames.com/archives/2007/10/cgdc4_event_horizon.php">here</a><br/></description> <pubDate>October 1st 2007</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>DISTIL successfully completes expansion into new office Following a summer of rapid growth and new additions to our team, DISTIL has moved into a bigger space across the street. The move into our new office, which has approximately three times the square footage of our previous space, was completed on September 20th.
 September 2007 Want to know more about us? You are not alone. After hearing from many people who wanted to see a more informative DISTIL web site, we have started working on a bigger site to meet your needs. Check back in December to browse the new pages and find out more about DISTIL, our products, and our thoughts on learning.
 September 2007 DISTIL raises $2.2M in Series A funding round http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/289152540336924.php Ottawa-based educational platforms maker Distil Interactive has raised $2.2 million in a Series A funding round from the GrowthWorks Canadian Fund, bringing its financing totals to more than $3 million.
more June 2007 DISTIL named as finalist for Most Promising New Company of 2007 by the CNMA http://www.cnma.ca/index_e/about.html DISTIL Interactive was a finalist in the Most Promising New Company of 2007 category of the Canadian New Media Awards (CNMA).
more March 2007 DISTIL Interactive featured in the Ottawa Citizen Hi-Tech Report http://www.thedistilway.com/docs/news/Playing%20for%20Keeps%20Mar_08_07.pdf In Ottawa Citizen*s semi-annual Hi-Tech report, Kelly Roesler looks at Response Ready and other products created by DISTIL Interactive in order to transfer expertise by testing players* responses in real-world situations.
more March 8, 2007 DISTIL named finalist (Most Promising Start-Up) in the 2007 OCRI Awards http://www.ocri.ca/email_broadcasts/newsreleases/021607news_e.html The Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI) has named DISTIL as a Finalist in the Most Promising Start-Up category of the 2007 OCRI Awards. OCRI is Ottawa*s lead technology and economic development agency.
more February 2007 Digital Games-Based Learning (DGBL) highlighted by RABQSA in the April-May 2007 edition of e-Momentum. http://www.rabqsa.com/docs/emomentum/emom_07_02.pdf

The benefits of a situational and interactive approach to learning, in particular for training providers, employers, and accreditation bodies, are examined in Stephen Davies* article, Innovations in Training.

In Bringing Training to Life: the real world on your desktop, Heather McBurney of CSA examines the role that learning games can play in management systems training by engaging front-line employees, while enabling quality professionals and auditors to learn skills and competencies through an interactive game-like experience.

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April 2007 Distil teams up with the Canadian Standards Association to develop new learning tools http://www.thedistilway.com/docs/news/CSA%20team%20press%20release%20FINAL.pdf

Team launches serious games to compliment ISO readiness and emergency response education programs

Distil, a developer of new media platforms, announced today that is has teamed up with the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) to develop a number of learning games to be used in the CSA's training programs. The first two games addressing ISO readiness and emergency response planning have already been launched. Several more will be rolled out in mid to late 2007.
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 February 23, 2007 Product launch enhances new NQI training course http://www.thedistilway.com/docs/news/News-IA_Launch.pdf Late March of 2006 marked an exciting event for DISTIL and one of our valued partners. After months of development, we publicly launched our first product, Interactive Assessor, with the National Quality Institute (NQI).
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March 2006 OCE seed money help relationships grow http://www.i2learning.com/docs/news/News-OCE_Funding.pdf We're happy to announce that, this March, we received $250, 000 of direct funding from the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) through their Accelerator Investment Program. A division of OCE, the Centre for Communication and Information Technologies supports the commercialization of University research by translating it into business opportunities.
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March 2006 Carleton University's HOT Lab receives grant to work with DISTIL http://www.thedistilway.com/docs/news/News-HOT_Lab.pdf Thanks to the Ontario Research Network for Electronic Commerce (ORNEC), we are adding Carleton University to our growing list of academic partners.
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March 2006