Missing Educational Website (WhizKidz? BrainWhiz?)
May 15, 2021 17:28:09 GMT
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Post by mt_fujiapple on May 15, 2021 17:28:09 GMT
Hello. I am searching for a lost educational website that my siblings and I used to go on all the time. This might be a bit lengthy due to all the details I am putting in because I still remember it vividly.
The year that this website could have been accessed was around 2008-2009. It was introduced to my brother's elementary school when my family was still living in Colorado, but when we moved back to Texas, we found out that the website could still be accessed there, so it wasn't a region-only website.
The site's name, I don't remember at all, but I do remember certain parts of it. It sounded something like "BranWhiz", "KidzBiz", "BrainBiz", or "SmartBrainz". (Not to be confused with FunBrains, if anyone is familiar with that website...) I have tried searching all of these on Google, DuckDuckGo, and various other engines and nothing has come up.
When you first log into the site, you are taken to a city which has buildings shaped like a semi-circle. Each cluster of buildings (they were very colorful, by the way) presents a different grade level, and each grade level has a different set of games. (Some of the games were "membership only" and required a subscription to the service to access those particular games and stories.) The very few games I specifically remember were the ones listed bellow:
That's all about the game that I remember. I don't know if it required flash or not, or how to access it. I have tried everything, from going to the school's website and placing it in the WayBack Machine, to searching all the keywords above. I haven't gotten anything. It's been years and my siblings and I would really like to see the website again. If anyone knows anything on this potentially named "WhizKidz" or "BrainWhiz" educational site, or is interested in starting a search, please comment!
The year that this website could have been accessed was around 2008-2009. It was introduced to my brother's elementary school when my family was still living in Colorado, but when we moved back to Texas, we found out that the website could still be accessed there, so it wasn't a region-only website.
The site's name, I don't remember at all, but I do remember certain parts of it. It sounded something like "BranWhiz", "KidzBiz", "BrainBiz", or "SmartBrainz". (Not to be confused with FunBrains, if anyone is familiar with that website...) I have tried searching all of these on Google, DuckDuckGo, and various other engines and nothing has come up.
When you first log into the site, you are taken to a city which has buildings shaped like a semi-circle. Each cluster of buildings (they were very colorful, by the way) presents a different grade level, and each grade level has a different set of games. (Some of the games were "membership only" and required a subscription to the service to access those particular games and stories.) The very few games I specifically remember were the ones listed bellow:
- The Story of a Butterfly and the Red Kazoo: Ah...this infamous story. This really scared me as a kid and I never wanted to be around the computer when it was on. This story book followed a very crudely sung story of a butterfly who wanted a red kazoo, he spoke to a wise old caterpillar about it, he played his kazoo or something, and then, the butterfly got a blue kazoo in the end. I'm sorry if the story sounds all muddled up, but I can't remember much other than that the voices singing in the background scared me. The pictures were cute (drawn in a "Duck Song" style), but the singers in the background sounded very nasally and high-pitched in an unsettling kind of way, and the guitar playing in the background didn't do much to help them sound any more friendlier...
- The Elephant Who Cried Mouse: This was another story that was on the website alongside the Butterfly Kazoo story. It was basically The Boy who Cried Wolf, expect it followed an elephant attending a peanut festival who kept lying to his friends that he saw a mouse. All his friend thought he was crazy, and when a mouse really showed up at the elephant's house, no one would believe him, and the mouse devoured all the elephant's peanuts. The ending was very sad, but it taught kids not to lie.
- The Conveyor Belt with Dancing Ducks and Throwing Pies at Their Faces Game: There was this other game that followed a set of dancing ducks on a conveyor belt dancing. The game came in different forms, a math game and a language arts game. If the math version was picked, then you would get a math problem overhead and you would have to throw a pie at the correct dancing duck on the belt with the right answer. If you threw the pie at the correct duck, it would splat on his face. If you failed, I think it would miss the duck. My siblings and I enjoyed this game, as the "duh-dun-duh-duh" beats in the background and the happy cartoon mallard ducks clapping and dancing were very entertaining.
- The Javelin Game: The last game I vividly remember was a game that looked a lot like QWOP, except it was more 2D in design and less polygon-ish. The game was like the Duck Game, having two options: math and language arts and this time, science. You would answer problems, and the more correct questions you answered, the higher your javelin would go. You could even throw as far to the SUN. (Funny...it would never burn up when my sibs and I threw it that far...XD)
That's all about the game that I remember. I don't know if it required flash or not, or how to access it. I have tried everything, from going to the school's website and placing it in the WayBack Machine, to searching all the keywords above. I haven't gotten anything. It's been years and my siblings and I would really like to see the website again. If anyone knows anything on this potentially named "WhizKidz" or "BrainWhiz" educational site, or is interested in starting a search, please comment!
