R3 Center – At the Heart of the Future

Creating technology programs for students and teachers using technology as a springboard for life lessons – allowing students to see "outside the box" and seeing opportunities in their future. R3 Center programs are fun and engaging for students of all ages.

R3 Center, a not-for-profit organization, was founded in 2001 by Mickey Richardson, a.k.a. MickeyLive, one of the industry's premier creative software trainers. A firm believer in providing children with professional tools at a younger age, R3 Center focuses on training grades 5-12.

R3 Center believes technology is a tool for life. R3's problem-solution environment inspires children to look to the future.

Technology Twister

R3 Center introduced its summer camp program, Technology Twister, in 2001, along with its technology partners. Over 500 children responded to the program, of which 80 campers were selected based on their essays. At the conclusion of the program, each camper took home knowledge, hardware and/or software and high expectations to continue learning.

The Weekend Project

R3 Center launched The Weekend Project in the fall of 2002. The goal of this program was to introduce children to new technologies with a summer-camp-like experience yet lasting just a weekend. The Weekend Project sold out at each offering due to high interest and demand for this educational technology program.

Expanded Initiatives

In 2003, R3 Center continued its growth by partnering with the Rogers, Arkansas School District to provide digital media curriculum in its high school – another hit!

ISP In 2004, R3 Center expanded its reach with the purchase of a 50-foot tractor trailer. Originally used as a mobile eye surgery lab, the trailer was converted into a state-of-the-art mobile computer lab. Working with architects from Ken Shireman and Associates of Fayetteville, AR, the trailer quickly earned its name TechTank which now serves as just one of R3's high-tech mobile technology labs. Since inception, R3 had reached over 4,000 different students in grades 5-12.

Mickey Richardson continues to inspire children as well as those in the high-tech industry as Founder of R3 Media Group, Inc.

R3 Media Group, Inc. carries this same passion combined with consumer electronics marketing and training initiatives by combining R3's TechTank programs with retail outreach.

R3 - At the Heart of the Future

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	MickeyLive R3's founder is among the most highly regarded personalities in the technology industry.

	Mobile Technology Each TechTank is R3's technology classroom on wheels. Each TechTank is more than a truck and trailer. It's a mobile window to a child's future.

The Baxter Bulletin November 24, 2005	Mountain Home Junior High School students learn how to edit digital video footage they took Tuesday morning around the school. They were editing inside a 50-foot tractor-trailer "TechTank" mobile computer lab brought to the school by Mickey Richardson, founder of R3 Center in Rogers.