CALGARY, Alberta --- December 12, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that the third-largest school district in Texas, Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District (CFISD), will install more than 2,000 SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards to enhance the learning environment of more than 100,000 students in 78 schools. This purchase is in addition to the more than 1,200 SMART Board interactive whiteboards already installed in the district. The district began a large-scale installation of the interactive whiteboards in September, which will continue into the new year. SMART is now the preferred interactive whiteboard provider to the three largest school districts in Texas, with more than 450,000 students benefiting from the technology. Three years ago, schools in Dallas Independent School District began installing SMART Board interactive whiteboards, and now the district is home to more than one thousand. Similarly, Houston Independent School District has been installing the SMART product at a steady rate since 2002 and to date has filled nearly 1,300 classrooms with SMART Board interactive whiteboards.

CALGARY, Alberta --- December 8, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces its first mobile stand for interactive displays. The SMART Mobile Stand for interactive displays is specifically designed to add mobility to SMART Board™ interactive displays measuring 50" to 65" (127 cm to 165.1 cm). The system is ideal for users in education, business and government who must share limited numbers of interactive displays or who need to create temporary meeting or learning spaces. A mobile SMART Board interactive display means organizations can quickly add interactive and audiovisual functionality to rooms that would otherwise be without. Teachers can reconfigure space within a classroom simply by moving the interactive display to different parts of the room for small-group work. The mobile stand has a height-adjustable range of 15" (38 cm) up or down, which, depending on audience configuration, can improve sightlines. It also accommodates use by people of different heights and is practical for any special needs users with limited reach.

CALGARY, Alberta --- December 10, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces the release of the special report “More Time to Learn: Boost teacher productivity and free up learning time with SynchronEyes classroom management software.” The report presents the results of a recent SMART survey indicating that teachers save an average of 14 minutes per 50-minute computer class, or 28 percent of class time, with SynchronEyes™ classroom management software. Automating many time-consuming administrative tasks, the software saves approximately seven hours of teaching time per term, which leaves more time to spend with students. The survey was conducted in October 2008, with 348 SynchronEyes software users participating from across North America.

CALGARY, Alberta --- December 10, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces SMART Sync 2009, the latest version of its classroom management software. SMART Sync builds on the features of its predecessor, SynchronEyes™ software, which automated many administrative tasks in the computer-enabled classroom and allowed teachers to monitor every student computer from their desktop. SMART Sync 2009 adds easier control and monitoring capabilities. Teachers can click a button to view a thumbnail image of each student’s computer. They can also lock or take control of any computer, either to highlight a student’s excellent work or to bring a student back on task. SMART’s dedication has led to the development of easy-to-use hardware and software products, and SMART Sync is no exception. These improvements, combined with the popular features of earlier versions, deliver a classroom management software designed specifically for teachers and students. SMART Sync 2009 is the eighth version of this award-winning software.

CALGARY, Alberta --- December 5, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces SMART Notebook SE (Student Edition) software on a convenient USB silicon bracelet. Designed for technology savvy students, the product offers portable interactive learning software that complements SMART Notebook software, a widely-used lesson delivery application. North American students use several computers each day to complete school work as they move from their homeroom to the computer lab to the library and then home. The bracelet allows them to plug in to any computer, complete assignments and save their work to a single, portable USB key. SMART Notebook SE software runs automatically from the bracelet, so there is no need to download or install it. With 2 GB of space (120 MB of which is used by SMART Notebook SE), the bracelet makes it easy for students to take homework, digital texts, multimedia and other important information with them wherever they go. The mobile format also means issues concerning variability in computer set up are minimized. Today, the bracelets are compatible with the Windows® operating system. A Mac version and cross-platform version are under development.

CALGARY, Alberta --- December 3, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that researchers from the Spaulding Youth Center have found that SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards can help students with autism improve spontaneous peer learning and classroom skills and decrease maladaptive behavior. The center conducted the research as part of the Autism, Communication and Technology (ACT) project. The study was designed by Kathleen McClaskey, president of EdTech Associates and project director for ACT, and Randy Welch, chief program officer at the Spaulding Youth Center. Launched in the fall of 2006, the study looked at the effects of technology on autistic students’ learning outcomes over a two-year period. It found steady, significant improvements throughout the project.

CALGARY, Alberta --- November 28, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that 16 of the best teachers in Florida have been awarded SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards. The awards were presented as part of the Foundation for Excellence in Education’s Celebration of Teaching ceremony, hosted by former Florida governor and chairman of the foundation, Jeb Bush. The event took place in October in Orlando, Florida. In all, 85 teachers received awards, and all 16 teachers nominated in more than one category received SMART Board interactive whiteboards for their classrooms. The award categories focused on motivating students in reading and math, and aiding ESL learners and students with disabilities.

CALGARY, Alberta --- November 27, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces the third generation SMART Board™ 600i interactive whiteboard system. The new product line offers two screen formats - widescreen (16:10 aspect ratio) and standard (4:3 aspect ratio). Each model in the improved 600i line combines an award-winning SMART Board 600 series interactive whiteboard and one of two new boom-mounted, short-throw projectors, both of which offer longer bulb life and better image quality than previous generations. The 4:3 model integrates a UF55 projector, and the 16:10 integrates a UF55w. The widescreen model increases active whiteboarding space by 20 percent over the standard. Measuring 87" (221 cm) on the diagonal, the 16:10 makes it compatible with today’s wide-format computer resolutions and content. Any SMART Board 680, 660, 580 and 560 interactive whiteboard can be retrofitted with a UF55, and the 685 model can be retrofitted with a UF55w.

CALGARY, Alberta --- November 27, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that company co-founder and CEO, Nancy Knowlton, was named Best Entrepreneur in the category of Non-Services Businesses – Up to 2,500 Employees. Knowlton accepted the award at a ceremony in New York City on Friday, November 14. The Stevie Awards for Women in Business is an international competition that recognizes the outstanding accomplishments of women executives, business owners and the organizations they manage. This is the second time Knowlton has been recognized by the Stevie Awards.

CALGARY, Alberta --- November 20, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that researchers at the University of Virginia have concluded that SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards can reduce teacher nervousness, increase lesson effectiveness and improve student learning outcomes when used with appropriate pedagogy and digital resources. The University of Virginia Center for Technology and Teacher Education research study involved two different groups of student teachers and focused on how to best prepare math and science teachers for using interactive whiteboards to promote student understanding. The student teachers reported that using SMART Board interactive whiteboards helped them refocus their teaching when they were diverted from their original lesson plans, thereby reducing their nervousness in front of a classroom. Results show that SMART Notebook software helped student teachers prepare comprehensive lesson activities by helping them organize their plans in a storyboard process, and then incorporating a variety of resources, such as digital images, graphs and videos into the file. Use of the SMART Board also saved class time and the teachers used that extra time to pose more advanced and deeper questions.

CALGARY, Alberta --- November 12, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces Aegom Interactive is the first company to receive the Select designation in the SMART Software Accreditation Program (SAP), making Aegom the first to create commercially available content specifically for SMART Notebook software. In September this year Aegom released “Middle School Math for SMART Notebook.” The title was created to take advantage of the many new features of SMART Notebook software 10, one of the most widely used lesson delivery applications in the world. The growing popularity of SMART Notebook software has led content developers like Aegom Interactive to provide multimedia content and applications designed specifically for the application. SMART Notebook software is the lesson delivery application used on SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards and displays, Senteo™ interactive response systems, Sympodium™ interactive pen displays and AirLiner™ wireless slates.

CALGARY, Alberta --- November 10, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces record third-quarter shipments of over 100,000 SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards - the largest number of units the industry leader has shipped in any single quarter. Globally, for all market segments, SMART’s share for Q3 was 57.4 percent, up seven points from Q2, as reported by Futuresource Consulting, a leading global research company that has tracked interactive whiteboard shipments for over eight years. Futuresource also identifies SMART as the global leader in the K-12 market segment with a 57.1 percent share, an increase of almost seven points from the previous quarter. Year-to-date results from Futuresource show that SMART has a 55 percent category share, up more than eight points from 2007. The company entered Q3 with a substantial order book and increased production to meet demand within the quarter. Orders were strong throughout Q3 and leading into Q4.

CALGARY, Alberta --- November 06, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that two of its software titles have been honored at the 13th annual Education Software Review Awards (EDDIEs). The EDDIEs are issued annually by ComputED Gazette. SMART Notebook software version 10 won in the Teacher Tools: Productivity category and SMART Ideas™ concept-mapping software won in the Multilevel: Thinking Skills category. With its rich set of features and digital resources, SMART Notebook helps educators deliver high-impact lessons that bring learning to life and connects them to a full ecosystem of content, tools and support. SMART Ideas concept-mapping software enables users to visually represent links between ideas and can be used in learning activities such as brainstorming, outlining, organizing and analyzing. This is the fifth consecutive year that SMART has won EDDIE awards.

LONDON, UK --- October 31, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that it supports and will actively participate in efforts by Becta to develop a common file format for interactive whiteboards scheduled to be implemented in the second half of 2009. A common file format allows teachers and students using interactive whiteboards in the United Kingdom to create lessons and other learning resources, and then use them on any brand of interactive whiteboard. With the new standard, teachers and students will be able to access and share their resources regardless of the hardware they use.

SEATTLE, Washington --- October 29, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces the release of its newest white paper, “Interactive Whiteboards in 1:1 Learning Environments: Defining public and private learning spaces in the classroom.” The paper differentiates products that support individual (private) learning, such as PDAs, student laptops and ultra-mobile PCs, and products that support group (public) learning, such as interactive whiteboards. One-to-one learning environments can effectively engage 21st-century students in the learning process and promote consistent access to a personal computing device for each student. The white paper indicates that introducing interactive whiteboards into one-to-one learning environments increases the likelihood of student collaboration. With more and more learning theory focused on the benefits of student collaboration, interactive whiteboards and personal computing devices address the need for private and public learning spaces in one-to-one settings.

SEATTLE, Washington --- October 27, 2008 - SMART Technologies announces its support for the One-to-One Institute, an organization committed to enhancing student achievement and engagement through one-to-one education programs. One-to-one learning initiatives aim to provide every student and teacher with access to a personal computing device in a wireless environment. To promote one-to-one education, the institute builds awareness about one-to-one teaching and learning, and provides professionals in education with learning opportunities focused on developing a shared vision and action plans. The institute also helps districts assess their current capacity and long-term ability to sustain one-to-one programs. SMART’s relationship with the One-to-One Institute includes the company’s support of a variety of 21st-century professional development options for administrators, teachers and technology personnel.

CALGARY, Alberta --- October 23, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces the SMART Table interactive learning center, a ground-breaking learning display designed specifically for preschool to sixth grade students (ages 4 to 11). The new product is a brightly colored table with a touch-sensitive surface where groups of students can simultaneously interact with digital content. Working together to complete interactive lessons, play educational games and solve problems, students think the interactive learning center is fun and easy to use, and their teachers find it educational. The SMART Table provides a learner-centric experience for small groups that allows students to select or move objects, draw or write on the screen simultaneously, and work together to find answers to preset questions. The interactive learning center is an ideal complement to the whole-class learning opportunities provided by SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards. For example, a teacher can introduce a concept on an interactive whiteboard and then ask students in small groups to explore it further on a SMART Table. The SMART Table’s touch technology builds on SMART’s DViT™ (Digital Vision Touch) technology, which enables multiuser and multitouch functionality. The product reflects the company’s leading role in touch interaction technology, particularly as it relates to interactive whiteboards and interactive displays.

CALGARY, Alberta --- October 21, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces it has expanded its online self-directed training services to include any time, any place, any pace learning. SMART’s Learning Management System (LMS) lets SMART product users learn at their own speed, with 11 new self-paced courses available and many more under development. SMART’s LMS is a comprehensive training system suitable for all users of SMART products. The company’s extensive face-to-face training, live online training and other learning resources are accessible through SMART’s LMS at smarttech.com/trainingcenter/LMS.asp.

CALGARY, Alberta --- October 20, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces the student edition of SMART Notebook, the award-winning collaborative learning software used with all SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards and displays, Senteo™ interactive response systems, Sympodium™ interactive pen displays and AirLiner™ wireless slates. SMART Notebook SE gives technologically literate, 21st-century students a learning tool that capitalizes on their sophisticated technology use, reflecting the way today’s students think and organize ideas. The student software is compatible with SMART Notebook software, which many K–12 teachers use as their primary lesson delivery application. SMART Notebook SE is the first program to allow students to create, share, organize and store digital files just like their teachers. Students can also use the software’s scheduling and organizing features to keep track of homework assignments and due dates, take notes and highlight important concepts. As a flexible learning tool that supports individual, small group and whole-class learning, SMART Notebook SE helps students create, deliver and manage interactive lessons and resources. The application runs on student desktops, laptops, ultra-mobile PCs, PDAs and tablets.

CALGARY, Alberta --- October 16, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces the appointment of Jeff Losch to the position of vice president, legal and general counsel. Losch will lead SMART’s legal department and be responsible for all the legal affairs of the company and its subsidiaries, including its corporate, commercial and intellectual property matters. He is based in Calgary, Canada, and reports to Nancy Knowlton, SMART’s CEO.

CALGARY, Alberta --- October 15, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that Portland Public Schools in Maine is installing SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards in classrooms throughout the district. Over the next few years, approximately 450 classrooms will be outfitted with these 21st-century teaching and learning tools, and more than 6,000 students will benefit from using them. District officials cited SMART’s proven reputation as the global leader in the interactive whiteboard product category, superior product quality, ease of use, training services and technical support as reasons for choosing SMART. All SMART Board interactive whiteboards will be shipped with award-winning SMART Notebook software, the world’s most widely used interactive whiteboard software. Within SMART Notebook software and through the SMART website, teachers will also have access to thousands of resources designed by teachers, for teachers.  These resources, all free of charge, include SMART Notebook lesson activities, Adobe® Flash® objects, video, still images and a wide variety of additional online resources.

CALGARY, Alberta --- October 8, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that it has been recognized for the fifth time by Military Training Technology magazine as one of the year’s top 100 training and simulation companies providing military training products in North America. The MT2 award recognizes companies that have been instrumental in advancing military training through technology and innovation. It is judged by Military Training Technology’s editorial board and a panel of independent experts from the simulation and training industry. SMART also received the award in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007.

CALGARY, Alberta --- September 18, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces the addition of seven languages to SMART Meeting Pro collaboration software. To meet the demands of a growing global customer base, SMART Meeting Pro software now runs in French, German, Spanish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese (traditional and simplified) in addition to English. Business, government and military staff in different countries can instantly start or join a conference, share applications, participate in discussions, brainstorm, and save and distribute work in their own language.

CALGARY, Alberta --- September 2, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces its cooperation with NASA in a three-year pilot project called Global NetGeneration of Youth (NGY) Investigating the Careers of NASA International Space Station Leaders. The project is a unique education initiative currently involving three schools – the Academy of Information Technology and Engineering in Stamford, Connecticut; Dorsey High School in Los Angeles, California; and Sir Winston Churchill High School in Calgary, Alberta. SMART is contributing SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards, SMART Notebook software, Bridgit™ conferencing software and technical support. The program, which begins in September, is designed to inspire students to achieve academic excellence and enter careers in science, technology, engineering and math. Using SMART products, students and teachers at all three schools will connect to form teams of NGY cyberjournalists who research and interview scientists, inventors, engineers, astronauts and policy makers affiliated with the International Space Station. There are plans to extend the program globally.

CALGARY, Alberta --- August 15, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces its continued global leadership of the interactive whiteboard product category with another strong share result in the second quarter of 2008. The data comes from a recently released report from Futuresource (formerly Decision Tree Consulting), an industry-leading global research company that has tracked interactive whiteboard sales for the past eight years. The report indicates that SMART sold more interactive whiteboards than all other competitors combined for the second straight quarter in 2008. Not only did SMART invent the world’s first interactive whiteboard, it has led global sales in every quarter since product introduction. In recent years, with competition in the market, SMART has sold about 70 percent more interactive whiteboards than its closest competitor. Today, according to first-half data for calendar 2008 on the interactive whiteboard product category, SMART has a 53.3 percent global category share, up from 45.5 percent in the first half of 2007. In addition, 64.2 percent of interactive whiteboard system sales (whiteboard plus short-throw projector) in the second quarter of 2008 went to SMART for its SMART Board™ 600i interactive whiteboard system.

OTTAWA, Ontario --- August 12, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that the one millionth SMART Board interactive whiteboard will roll off the company’s Ottawa production line today, at approximately 1:00 p.m. SMART is the first interactive whiteboard manufacturer to reach this significant milestone. Over the past 17 years, SMART has sold approximately three times as many interactive whiteboards as its closest competitor. According to firsthalf data for 2008 for the interactive whiteboard product category, SMART has a 53.3 percent global category share, up from 45.5 percent in the first half of 2007. The information comes from Futuresource, an industry-leading global research company that has tracked interactive whiteboard sales for the past eight years. SMART products are assembled in a state-of-the-art 24,155 square meter (260,000 square foot) facility in Ottawa, Ontario.

CALGARY, Alberta --- August 12, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces its product solutions are now installed in the Digital Union, a new leading-edge research and education facility at Ohio State University. The Digital Union offers a place to experience and explore new education technology products in order to assess their potential for enhancing teaching and learning. SMART hardware and software products are installed in the Digital Union’s Learning Collaboration Studio, a flexible learning environment equipped with a variety of advanced technology tools that faculty, staff, students and visitors can use for research and collaboration.

CALGARY, Canada ---August 6, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that it has won the Comenius EduMedia Signet 2008 Award for the Senteo™ interactive response system and the SMART Board™ 600i2 interactive whiteboard system. The award for exemplary education media was presented at a ceremony hosted by the Society for Pedagogy and Information, a scientific organization specializing in multimedia, media didactics and education technology, on June 20 in Berlin, Germany. An independent jury selected winners based on didactic and scientific merit.

CALGARY, Alberta --- July 22, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces the appointment of Mike Battistel to the position of vice president, information systems (IS). Battistel’s mandate is to plan, coordinate and oversee all IS activities and to provide strategic direction on the company’s information technology (IT) investments. He is based at SMART’s headquarters in Calgary, Canada, and reports to the vice president, finance and CFO, Susan Ruf.

CALGARY, Alberta --- July 17, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that Wainhouse Research has published a white paper on the business benefits of new interactive products for meeting rooms. The research findings outlined in Bringing the Meeting Room into the Digital Age: New Approaches to Brainstorming and Group Collaboration for 21st Century Meetings demonstrate that products such as SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards and interactive displays can be used to connect meeting rooms in different locations more effectively and inexpensively than other solutions. As a result, distributed team members can join a conference, share any application, write over it in digital ink and save their work as if everyone was in the same room.

CALGARY, Alberta --- July 14, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces the appointment of Bill Ciprick to the newly created position of vice president, strategy and alliances. Ciprick’s mandate is the development of sustainable competitive advantage through the development of long-term strategies and relationships with third-party companies to continue to expand SMART’s offerings and activities. He is based in Calgary, Canada, and reports to SMART’s CEO, Nancy Knowlton.

CALGARY, Alberta --- July 2, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces the SMART Board™ interactive display frame, a next-generation interactive display solution for K–12 and higher education. The first product of its kind for education, the lightweight, slender frame attaches easily to most commercial plasma displays to make them interactive. It combines the high-resolution image quality of a plasma display, the precision of camera-based touch technology and the simplicity of a pencil tool. It is a shadow-free, projector-free alternative to front-projection interactive whiteboards and can help educators extend the value of their existing plasma displays. The SMART Board interactive display frame is ideal for small classrooms where large writing surfaces are not needed or large classrooms where additional displays are used for group work.

CALGARY, Alberta --- July 1, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces the correlation of SMART Learning Marketplace content to Texas curriculum standards. The correlation will be ready in time for the start of the August 2008 school year. Texas teachers will be able to search more than one million pieces of digital content currently available on the site and quickly find resources correlated to state standards. The Texas curriculum correlation is the first of many planned correlations, with California, Florida and Arizona to follow. The SMART Learning Marketplace is a Web-based subscription service that provides access to the world’s largest online repository of copyright-cleared education content.

CALGARY, Alberta --- June 30, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces it anticipates installing its one millionth SMART Board™ interactive whiteboard in August 2008. SMART is the leader in the interactive whiteboard product category and currently holds 56.8 percent of the product category share worldwide. The category share data comes from Q1 2008 results from Decision Tree Consulting (DTC), an industry-leading global research company that has tracked interactive whiteboard sales for the last eight years. SMART will be the first interactive whiteboard manufacturer to reach this milestone. Interactive whiteboards are increasingly considered a standard teaching and learning tool around the world.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas --- June 30, 2008 --- PASCO scientific and SMART Technologies announce an alliance designed to bring classroom management capabilities to hands-on science learning through an offering that combines PASCO’s DataStudio® software and SMART’s SynchronEyes™ classroom management software. Science teachers now have a rich resource to help them teach, collaborate with, manage and monitor individual students, or groups of students, as they engage in hands-on learning. PASCO and SMART Technologies made the announcement to educators attending the National Educational Computing Conference that runs in San Antonio today through Wednesday.

CALGARY, Alberta --- June 27, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that SMART Notebook software version 10 has won the 2008 Worlddidac Award. Worlddidac is a global trade association of publishers, manufacturers and distributors of educational material. Every two years, the association presents the Worlddidac Award to innovative and pedagogically valuable products with strong potential to improve learning or teaching. Following a rigorous evaluation of the latest version of SMART Notebook software, an independent international panel of education experts congratulated SMART for the development of what it called an outstanding product in the category of Products – All General School Subjects. Judging criteria included overall quality, pedagogic value, ease of use, aesthetics, degree of realism in software, multifunctionality, adaptability, design innovation, pedagogical innovation, technological innovation, degree of interactivity and performance-to-cost ratio. This marks the second Worlddidac Award for SMART. The SMART Board™ interactive whiteboard was honored in 2004.

CALGARY, Alberta --- June 24, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that teacher-submitted lesson activities are now available on the SMART Exchange, SMART’s recently launched online community for educators who want to share information, connect with colleagues and collaborate on various topics. The SMART Exchange now allows members to upload lesson activities and learning resources. The new feature was added in response to teacher requests. To keep content organized and easy to find, community members can tag their lesson activities by subject, grade level and keyword. They can also add comments and ratings.

CALGARY, Alberta --- June 18, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces the SMART Board™ interactive display frame. Combining the high-resolution image quality of a plasma display, the precision of camera-based touch technology and the simplicity of a pencil tool, the interactive display frame turns plasma displays into interactive collaboration tools. The lightweight, slender frame attaches easily to most commercial plasma displays and integrates seamlessly with SMART’s recently announced collaboration solutions – SMART Meeting Pro, SMART Hub SE and SMART Hub PE. Built-in reliability, tracking speed and touch accuracy make the SMART Board interactive display frame ideal for meeting and training rooms.

CALGARY, Alberta --- June 9, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces SMART Audio, a classroom amplification system designed to improve the audibility of teacher and student voices. This new system gives teachers the freedom to move about the classroom with a wireless microphone and be heard clearly by every student, reducing the distracting effects of ambient noise. Numerous studies show that classroom amplification systems can lead to improved performance on standardized test scores, decreased referrals to special education services, improved attentiveness and fewer teacher absences due to vocal cord strain and related ailments (Research Services, 2007).

CALGARY, Alberta --- June 6, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that its new Unifi™ 45 projector is now compatible with its popular SMART Board™ 500 series interactive whiteboards and the 660 model, creating a high- performance integrated system. Although SMART discontinued the SMART Board 500 series in 2005, more than 330,000 educators based primarily in the United Kingdom and North America still use them to teach interactive lessons and engage students. Customers who are using SMART Board 560 and 580 interactive whiteboards can now upgrade their projectors by adding SMART’s new Unifi 45 projector. The wall-mounted projector is already compatible with the SMART Board 680 interactive whiteboard.

CALGARY, Alberta --- June 5, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces the appointment of Patrick Lelorieux to the key new position of vice president and general manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The appointment is crucial to the company’s plan to expand sales, marketing and customer support efforts in the region. Lelorieux will manage SMART operations in EMEA, with a mandate to build infrastructure, take business in the region to the next level and offer superior customer service. He reports to SMART’s president and COO, Tom Hodson. During its 21-year history, SMART has built a focused distribution channel throughout EMEA. Lelorieux will further develop existing relationships, and hire and direct significantly more resources to support the company’s EMEA channel and end users.

CALGARY, Alberta --- June 4, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces its continued global leadership of the interactive whiteboard product category with a 56.8 percent share. The data comes from a recently released first quarter 2008 report from Decision Tree Consulting (DTC), an industry-leading global research company that has tracked interactive whiteboard sales for the past eight years. The report indicates that SMART’s global product category share of 56.8 percent is more than three times that of its closest competitor. Virtually all other interactive whiteboard manufacturers were reported to have lost category share. SMART increased its product category share for the fourth consecutive quarter in the United States, reaching 59.4 percent. In the United Kingdom, SMART’s category share also increased to 59.4 percent. The global results reflect a 32 percent volume increase compared to the final quarter of 2007.

CALGARY, Alberta --- May 29, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces the appointment of Allan Mowbray to the position of corporate controller. In this key role within the finance department, Mowbray will direct all global accounting functions at SMART, including financial reporting and taxation. He will report to Susan Ruf, SMART’s senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer.

CALGARY, Alberta---May 27, 2008--- SMART Technologies announces the expansion of its authorized reseller and content contributor network to include Hatch® Early Childhood Learning, the leading provider of education materials for the pre-K market in the United States.  Hatch has begun developing digital resources compatible with Notebook™ collaborative learning software, and now, through its relationship with SMART, will sell SMART’s interactive learning products across the United States. As a SMART reseller, Hatch will offer a variety of SMART products, including the Unifi™ 45 projector and the SMART Board™ 680i2 interactive whiteboard system, which ships with Notebook software.

CALGARY, ALBERTA --- May 27, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that a significant upgrade to the Senteo™ interactive response system will be available in September 2008. In version 2.0, extensive improvements to the tracking, reporting and analysis functions have been made, and teachers will have access to a comprehensive new gradebook. Version 2.0 integrates seamlessly with Notebook™ collaborative learning software and enables teachers to easily add questions to lesson activities. Existing Senteo customers can upgrade to version 2.0 at no charge

Calgary, Alberta --- May 23, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that public schools in Rancho Cordova, California, are installing more than 400 SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards to enhance the learning environment of 8,500 students in 17 schools. Kelly Calhoun, director of technology and information systems for the Folsom Cordova Unified School District (FCUSD), chose SMART after considering several different companies. Calhoun cited the ease of use of the products, the company’s reputation as the global leader in the interactive whiteboard product category, and the quality and variety of available resources and support materials as influencing factors in her decision.

CALGARY, Alberta --- May 21, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces three new product platforms specifically targeted at corporate users who view collaboration as a business imperative – SMART Meeting Pro, SMART Hub SE and SMART Hub PE. The three products combine with single or multiple SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards and SMART Board interactive displays to create connected meeting rooms where dispersed staff can instantly set up a data conference, write in digital ink over any application and save their work, share desktops and notes, and participate as if they were in the same room. SMART corporate solutions deliver the power to redefine the way people communicate and work in today’s global economy.

CALGARY, Alberta --- May 12, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces the appointment of Christopher Chong to the position of director, Asia-Pacific. The appointment reflects the company’s commitment to provide more local support for customers and resellers in the region. In this newly created position, Chong will be in charge of the sales, marketing and services functions for SMART products, and overseeing interactions with customers in 11 countries, including China, Australia, South Korea and Malaysia. Chong’s mandate is to build a local team that will support SMART’s business in the region. He will be based in Singapore and will report to SMART’s president and COO, Tom Hodson.

CALGARY, ALBERTA --- May 12, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces a 10 percent price reduction for North American educators on its 94" (238.8 cm) SMART Board™ 690 interactive whiteboard. The lower price will help more educators integrate wide-format boards into their total classroom solution. The 690 was launched in June 2006 and offers a 16:9 aspect ratio and 33 percent more active working surface than SMART’s most popular 680 model. As SMART’s largest board, the 690 can be seen more easily in large classrooms and auditoriums, and can accommodate complex equations and concepts easily.

CALGARY, Alberta – May 9, 2008 – SMART Technologies announces that Michael Giesen, a SMART product user, has been named National Teacher of the Year by the Council of Chief State School Officers and was recognized by President George W. Bush during a ceremony at the White House on April 30, 2008. The award is the highest honor an educator in the United States can receive. After being designated the Oregon State Teacher of the Year, Geisen was awarded a technology package from SMART Technologies, including a SMART Board™ 600i interactive whiteboard system, an AirLiner™ wireless slate, a license for Bridgit™ conferencing software, a computer-lab license for SynchronEyes™ classroom management software and an unlimited school site license for SMART Ideas™ concept-mapping software. As part of his mandate, Geisen will spend the next year traveling around the country sharing his teaching successes at different education events. His message for other educators is to strive to find the balance between content-driven teaching and creativity while honoring the humanity of children.

CALGARY, Alberta --- May 5, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that Naperville Central High School in Naperville, Illinois, is the 100th SMART Showcase School. The high school, part of Naperville Community Unit School District 203, exemplifies the qualities of all SMART Showcase Schools. Each school demonstrates the benefits of using SMART education solutions to create an engaging 21st-century learning environment, and staff is committed to sharing results with the education community. SMART Showcase Schools act as host sites for other school or district stakeholders interested in learning how SMART’s education solutions can improve teaching and learning. Educators at Naperville Central further demonstrate their commitment by providing teachers throughout the Chicago-area with training on how technology can be used to engage students.

CALGARY, Alberta --- April 23, 2008 --- SMART Technologies and John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd. announce SMART Board Interactive Whiteboards For Dummies®, a new reference manual designed to enhance users’ experiences with SMART Board interactive whiteboards. Released by Wiley, the long-time publisher of the For Dummies series, SMART Board Interactive Whiteboards For Dummies represents the first interactive whiteboard guide in the series. It was produced in cooperation with SMART and will be available in English worldwide by May 2008. Other languages are scheduled to follow.

CALGARY, Alberta --- April 15, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that its free online training is now available to SMART customers in five languages, and toll-free access is available in more than 70 countries around the world. More than 15,000 English-speaking teachers and corporate users have received training on SMART products through the online training since it became available four years ago. To better serve its growing global customer base, SMART has expanded its training service from English only to English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish. Implementing these languages across an extensive range of training sessions gives SMART the most comprehensive and accessible online training program in the interactive whiteboard product category. Education and corporate customers in Zurich, Paris or Mexico City can, for example, learn how to get started with their SMART Board™ interactive whiteboard in their own language.

CALGARY, April 14, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces global sponsorship of www.skoool™.com, the online educational website from Intel® Performance Learning Solutions Ltd. and the Intel World Ahead program. SMART has been a lead sponsor of various regional skoool initiatives since the website’s inception in 2005 and funded development of high-quality interactive math and science materials for teachers and students in developing countries. The new level of global sponsorship will help make these resources more broadly available and provide additional support for new skoool programs in other parts of the world. Among the most recognized online resources for teachers, skoool websites were accessed by more than three million visitors in 2007. Usage levels are increasing by more than 25 percent annually.

CALGARY, Alberta - March 24, 2008 - SMART Technologies announces the donation of a Sympodium™ interactive pen display, AirLiner™ wireless slate and Notebook™ collaborative learning software to Connecticut BioBus Educational Programs. The donation will allow thousands of students in grades 4–12 across Connecticut to have interactive biosciences learning experiences. City by city, the newly equipped BioBus will travel across the state to foster enthusiasm for the biosciences with hands-on experimentation and digital learning materials. Students will work in small groups at laboratory stations as a staff scientist uses SMART products to lead a lesson. The BioBus will be unveiled at the National Science Teachers’ Association conference in Boston on March 27.

CALGARY, Alberta --- March 13, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces its continued leadership regarding the number of interactive whiteboards installed in education institutions around the world. The data comes from a recently released report from Decision Tree Consulting (DTC), an industry-leading UK research company that has documented interactive whiteboard sales for eight years. The report also noted that SMART increased its 2007 product category share in the education segment by 4.4 points over 2006. The company’s closest competitor has less than half of SMART’s category share. SMART now holds 53 percent of the product category share in the education segment in the United States and 57 percent in the United Kingdom.

CALGARY, Alberta --- March 7, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces its new Scholastic.com microsite (www.scholastic.com/interactivewhiteboards/) designed to provide teachers with digital resources to complement their SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards and Senteo™ interactive response systems. The microsite features SMART lesson activities for Notebook™ collaborative learning software, resources to help with lesson activity creation and links to customizable tools and templates. Math and science lesson activities are currently featured, and additional lesson activity subjects will be added regularly. Scholastic.com, the Internet site of Scholastic Inc., the global children’s publishing, education and media company, is the #1 site for teachers on the Web, with more than two million unique visitors each month.

CALGARY, Alberta --- February 27, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that SMART Ideas™ concept-mapping software has received the 2008 Teachers’ Choice Award in the category of Classroom: Software and Hardware. Having received top ratings in two rounds of rigorous judging, SMART Ideas software was recognized as an excellent visual learning tool and featured in Learning magazine’s January 2008 issue. The software enables users to visually represent links between ideas and can be used in learning activities such as brainstorming, outlining, organizing and analyzing. This is the first time a SMART product has received a Teachers’ Choice Award.

CALGARY, Alberta --- February 22, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that Teresa Almeida d’Eca, a teacher at Escola EB 2,3 de Sto Antonio in Portugal, received the SMART Technologies School of the Future Award (a SMART-sponsored eLearning Award) for her innovative blog and integration of classroom technology. d’Eca’s CALL Lessons 2005–2007 blog (http://call05-06.motime.com/) is designed for fifth- and sixth-grade students as well as first- and second-year ESL (English as a second language) students. It is used to teach basic English comprehension, vocabulary and writing, the use of digital content and Web 2.0 mapping technologies. The eLearning Awards ceremony was held in December during the EMINENT 2007 Conference in Brussels, Belgium.

CALGARY, Alberta --- February 12, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that Greenwich Public Schools in Connecticut will standardize on SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards. Over the next four years, the Greenwich district will install one in  all classrooms for students in grades 3–12. In December 2007, Dr. Betty J. Sternberg, the district’s superintendent of schools, proposed a comprehensive plan to install the SMART product, and the $300,000 proposal was approved as part of the 2008–09 budget. The four-year rollout is part of an ongoing effort to improve students’ 21st-century knowledge and skills.

CALGARY, Alberta --- February 6, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces the SMART document camera, the latest addition to its 21st-century classroom solution. This easy-to-use product enables teachers to display detailed images and video of any physical object, and instantly incorporate that material into digital lessons using a SMART Board™ interactive whiteboard and Notebook™ collaborative learning software. Millions of teachers and students currently use the SMART Board interactive whiteboard and Notebook software to develop and deliver digital lessons. With the flexibility to digitize and assimilate images of physical objects into their SMART lessons whenever the need arises, teachers and students can now respond more easily to shifting classroom dynamics throughout the day.

CALGARY, Alberta --- February 5, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces that the Bridgeport Public Schools is outfitting four of its schools with more than 200 SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards. This installation supplements hundreds of SMART Board interactive whiteboards already present in Bridgeport’s 38 schools. After considering several different brands, Coretta K. Dean, Bridgeport Public Schools’ director of educational technology, chose SMART because the products offer a superior user experience and because the company supports teaching and learning with training and digital resources. Including Bridgeport, 93 percent of Connecticut’s school districts have purchased SMART products since 2000.

CALGARY, Alberta --- January 29, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces it plans to expand sales and marketing efforts in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) by hiring over 40 employees in the region. Demand for interactive whiteboards and other classroom and meeting room products from SMART has been growing dramatically in EMEA for the past several years, and the company anticipates it will increase even more in the future. During its 21-year history, SMART has successfully worked with distributors throughout the region. These new positions will allow those relationships to continue and enable SMART to dedicate significantly more resources to support its EMEA channel and end users in order to drive growth and offer superior customer service.

CALGARY, Alberta --- January 24, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces the addition of 100 SMART-created lesson activities to Curriki: The Global Education & Learning Community, a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing free education materials. These interactive lesson activities for Notebook™ collaborative learning software are designed for K–12 teachers. The activities include embedded Adobe®, Flash®, multimedia files as well as colorful and descriptive graphics. Each one is designed to encourage interactivity in the classroom. Curriki’s use of open-source content allows users to comment, edit and group together curricular materials to create a lesson. Teachers can adapt or revise lesson plans to suit their students’ needs.

CALGARY, Alberta --- January 18, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces the appointment of Stephen Arnaud to the position of director, supply chain management. In this newly created position, Arnaud will work with the global operations team to oversee supply chain management strategies and strengthen tactical supply chain performance. He will be based in Calgary and lead the company’s global procurement, material planning, warehouse and logistics.

CALGARY, Alberta --- January 15, 2008--- SMART Technologies announces SMART Board software 9.7 supports Mac OS X Leopard, Apple’s latest operating system. For users of the new Leopard operating system, the familiar interface of SMART Board software is newly available in Spanish. Other supported languages are English, French, Gaelic (Scottish) and German. SMART Board software also supports Mac OS version 10.4.

CALGARY, Alberta --- January 9, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces the SMART Board™ 685 interactive whiteboard, a wide-format interactive whiteboard with a 16:10 aspect ratio that measures 87 inches (221 cm) on the diagonal. The extra wide format offers 20 percent more working space than a SMART Board 680 interactive whiteboard and provides a solution for teachers who choose to adopt 16:10 wide-screen projectors.

CALGARY, Alberta --- January 9, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces the new SMART Board™ 600i interactive whiteboard system, SMART’s most convenient and affordable interactive whiteboard system. This second-generation integrated system combines the SMART Board 680 interactive whiteboard with the new Unifi™ 45 projector and will cost 25 percent less than the original system.