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(VALLEY FORGE, PA) October 9, 2001 Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) today announced that on October 10, 2001, it will launch an educational Internet portal for teachers nationwide under the HUBS (Hospitals, Universities, Businesses and Schools) program. U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige will be the guest of honor at this event to be held at Conestoga High School in Berwyn, Penn., at 1:00 P.M.

Educators and administrators from Conestoga High School, Villa Maria Lower Academy from Exton, Penn., and Norristown School District will demonstrate how they are using the portal and HUBS resources in their educational programs. A press roundtable and reception will be held immediately after the demonstration.

Located at www.hubscentral.org, the portal is accessible from school or home using a standard Internet browser and gives teachers free access to professional development resources and opportunities for enhanced communication with parents, students and peers in the HUBS Education network. The portal provides teachers with a lesson plan database, individual teacher home pages and individual classroom pages. It also provides access to "Learn NC," a North Carolina-based education Web site that contains thousands of classroom-tested lesson plans and educational Internet links contributed by teachers in North Carolina.

Parents also can use the portal to visit their childrens classroom pages where HUBS teachers post school news, classroom activities, childrens projects, homework assignments and a general classroom calendar.

"The Education Portal is one of several HUBS Education technology initiatives,"

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said Brian Hays, HUBS general manager and SAIC senior vice president. "As manager of the HUBS program, SAIC has been working closely with the school districts in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware to provide new technologies to improve education and the administration of educational services."

Last year, SAIC and HUBS placed new technologies in Pennsylvania classrooms under the Students Achieving Standards program from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In a pilot project, SAIC provided PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) devices to teachers in the Garnet Valley School District in Concordville, Penn. Teachers use the PDAs to assess and record student performance for each of the eleven Pennsylvania Mathematics Standards.

The HUBS program is a multi-state effort to improve the economic and intellectual climate for communities and governments and to create the first "smart region" by enhancing communications within the four states of Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania. HUBS initiatives encourage collaboration, sharing of technology and development of new technologies and applications across the region. SAIC serves as the HUBS program coordinator.

SAIC is the nations largest employee-owned research and engineering company, providing information technology, systems integration and eBusiness products and services to commercial and government customers. SAIC engineers and scientists work to solve complex technical problems in telecommunications, national security, health care, transportation, energy, the environment and financial services. With annual revenues exceeding $5.5 billion, SAIC and its subsidiaries, including Telcordia Technologies, have more than 41,000 employees at offices in more than 150 cities worldwide. More information about SAIC can be found on the Internet at www.saic.com.