August 21, 2001

IMMEX Turns 50,000

At 9:23 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time (that's 1:23 p.m. for you Pacific Coasters), August 21, 2001, IMMEX on the Web logged its 50,000th performance since switching to web based delivery in June of 1998. During the month of December 2000 IMMEX passed the 12,000 performance mark and in April of 2001 reached 23,000. More than doubling that number within just 4 months makes crossing that milestone even more exciting.

"It is not only reflective of how much IMMEX is catching on," says John Stallings who has been working with the project for the past 9 years and who has watched the program evolve from a tool used primarily by the UCLA Medical school to a multi-disciplinary, multi-grade level software used around the world, "but also reflective of how many more teachers are using technology to enhance their curriculum."

Several teachers from the Lawndale School District and The Accelerated School district attending an IMMEX General Technology training institute happened to be online working IMMEX problem-sets when the project was about to turn 50,000. To celebrate and further support the use of technology by educators, IMMEX donated two copies of Dreamweaver software to the 50,000th performer to help build and maintain the web site required by the workshop.

Congratulations IMMEX and Lawndale participant 103!