In 2002 The Virtual Lab Series won the top prize Pirelli INTERNETional Award in the category of Multimedia Education coming from any school, college, and university or research center.

The Transgenic Fly Lab was a finalist at the 2003 Macromedia MAX Awards in the category of Elearning Experiences. This category was for applications created by organizations to teach employees, customers, partners, or students.

More recently, the Transgenic Fly Lab won a MERLOT award in 2010.

A3MG has played an integral role in the development of HHMI’s Virtual Labs project.

Bill Pietsch, A3MG’s President and Creative Director, has been involved with the Virtual Labs project since its beginning in 1996 with the Virtual Immunology Lab. Bill provides creative direction, 3-D modeling, and interface design to the ongoing Virtual Labs project.

Davey Thomas, A3MG’s Vice-President and Media Programmer, became involved with the Virtual Labs project in 1997 with his work on the Virtual Neurophysiology Lab. Davey provides programming and animation on the project.

To date, HHMI has released five Virtual Labs in the areas of immunology, neurophysiology, cardiology, and bacterial identification. The fifth Virtual Lab entitled the Transgenic Fly Lab (shown) was released in 2004.

Links:
HHMI’s Virtual Lab Series Web Site
Learn More About the Virtual Fly Lab Project (5:00)

Awards:
Pirelli INTERNETional Award Web Site
2003 Macromedia MAX Awards
MERLOT Awards: Exemplary Learning Materials

Space Bump by A3MG. Aim your Orb and bump your way through space. This challenging 35-level arcade-style game features a variety of exciting bumpers. Use the bumpers to guide your Orb to the spiral, warping you to the next level. Will your mastery of the spinning, blinking, and moving bumpers in the increasingly complex levels help you conquer the galaxy?

Buy Space Bump for $.99 at the iTunes App Store!

Unite by A3MG.  A unique puzzle game where changes made to one tile affect neighboring tiles.  The object is to change all the tiles to the color indicated.  It’s one for all and all for one to solve these increasingly challenging color tile puzzles.

Buy Unite for $.99 at the iTunes App Store!

Interplanetary Weight Calculator by A3MG.  See what you weigh on the other planets! Use the slider to enter your Earth weight and release to see your weight on the other planets.

Get this app for FREE at the iTunes App Store!

HHMI’s annual Holiday Lectures on Science feature cutting edge science lectures by the world’s top scientists. Each year two scientists give talks on a variety of topics in biology.  A3MG created this web app that plays the full length lectures–over 52 hours total–on mobile devices like the iPhone and DROID.

On your iPhone, iPod touch, or Android phone, go to the following URL and add the link to your home screen. media.hhmi.org/hl/m/

A3MG maintains HHMI’s podcast feed which includes all of the Holiday Lectures on Science videos from the series. Shown is the iTunes Store view of the podcast.

A3MG worked with ANERA to edit and produce this video piece for their 2009 year-end fundraising campaign.

ANERA.org/give

A3MG was hired to design the main menu and author this DVD project. Our client provided high definition footage and a Final Cut Pro project file. The DVD authoring included adjusting audio levels, minor editing, and downconverting the HD footage to a standard definition DVD as specified by the client.

This short animation, created by A3MG for NIST, shows how a NIST transition-edge sensor will operate in a new cosmology experiment designed to detect evidence of rapid inflation of the early universe.

Read the press release

The annual Holiday Lectures on Science, given for pre-college students, have been webcast live by A3MG since 1998. A3MG developed this video on demand (VOD) player which features HD resolution in full screen mode, closed captions, and chapter links so viewers can jump to a specific topic within the videos. Additionally, A3MG created a web app that plays the videos on mobile devices like the iPhone and DROID.

Watch the lecture