Omniology Provides Award-Winning Content for the Treasurer of State of Ohio

The Treasurer of State of Ohio?s Center for Public Investment Management (CPIM) received the Government Finance Officers Association?s (GFOA) highest award, Award of Excellence, in the area of Cash Management and Investing. The primary content for the entry were innovative, training simulation bond market and portfolio management games designed by Omniology.

CINCINNATI, OH - June 24, 2002 - The Treasurer of State of Ohio's Center for Public Investment Management (CPIM) received the Government Finance Officers Association?s (GFOA) highest award, Award of Excellence, in the area of Cash Management and Investing at their annual conference in Denver, Colorado. Recognizing contributions to the practice of government finance that exemplify outstanding financial management, GFOA stresses practical, documented work that offers leadership to the profession and promotes improved public finance.

CPIM provides public finance and investment education for Ohio 3,500 public fund managers with the goal of providing high-quality instruction in the areas of investments, cash management and ethics.

Their award entry focused on the use of innovative, training simulation games on the bond market and portfolio management, of which the primary content for CPIM's entry was provided by Omniology.

Omniology is an involvement-based education content provider that creates educational tools that enable teachers to teach more effectively and students to comprehend and retain more knowledge. The company develops engaging learning tools that utilize simulation games, storytelling and exploration to efficiently and effectively teach key concepts. The company's focus is on providing increased financial literacy to people of all ages and from all walks of life.

"I have personally trained over 11,000 investment professionals across the country," said Orvell Johns, Director of CPIM, "and using Omniology?s investment simulation products have been the most effective educational tools by far. The Portfolio Management Game is the best tool for teaching about both stocks and bonds," Johns added. "Every classroom in America could teach their students many important concepts of financial literacy with this game. And the students will find it's easy to learn and amazingly fun?