The small minority - owned businesses participating are: American Overseas Trading, Anew Kitchen and Bath, C. Delandro & Son LLC, Curltique, Davillier Photography & Graphics, Don't Get Mad Get Paid, Golden Leaf Energy, Knot Just Floors LLC, Linking Arts, Moret's Plumbing, Orleans Embroidery, Prosquire Royal
Castle Child Development Center, Scholars First, and SJL Trucking LLC.
Thought leaders and colleagues from a long list of organizations have encouraged us, nudged us and been our «media mentors», including: Fred Rogers
Center for Early Learning and
Children's Media at Saint Vincent College; American Library Association (ALA); Association of
Children's Museums (ACM); Association of Library Service to
Children (ALSC); Catherine Cook School;
Center for Media and
Child Health at Boston
Children's Hospital;
Center for Media and Human
Development at Northwestern University; Chicago
Children's Museum; Chicago Public Library; Chicago STEM Pathways Cooperative;
Children's Technology Review; Columbia College Chicago; CPB / PBS Ready to Learn; Early Childhood Australia Digital Policy Group and Live Wires; Early Childhood Futures, Learning Sciences Institute Australia, Australian Catholic University; Early Childhood Investigations; Early Childhood STEM Working Group; HITN Early Learning Collaborative; Illinois Computing Educators (ICE); Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT); Joan Ganz Cooney
Center at Sesame Workshop; Kohl
Children's Museum; Language
Castle; Little eLit; National Association for the Education of Young
Children (NAEYC); National Association of Media Literacy Education (NAMLE); New America; New Zealand Tertiary College; Technology and Young
Children Interest Forum of NAEYC; and Waterford Institute, Early Education and Technology for
Children (EETC)