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For the game series, see. Carmen Sandiego Creator Original work Print publications Books Where In America Is Carmen Sandiego? Where In America's Past Is Carmen Sandiego? Where In Europe Is Carmen Sandiego? Where In Space Is Carmen Sandiego? Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? Where In The USA Is Carmen Sandiego?

Where In The USA Is Carmen Sandiego Part II? Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego? Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego Part II? Hasta La Vista, Blarney Color Me Criminal One T. Rex Over Easy The Cocoa Commotion Films and television Films Television series Games Video games Audio Original music Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Carmen Sandiego is an American media franchise of educational computer games and other media featuring a created. The franchise's main premise follows the user or protagonist who becomes an agent of the ACME Detective Agency and later attempts to thwart and capture V.I.L.E.

Mltr This Is Who I Am Free Mp3 Download. Ringleader Carmen Sandiego. The franchise originally focused on teaching geography, but later branched out into history, mathematics, English, and other subjects. Originally distributed in North America, most of the franchise's are now available to international audiences. With the exception of Carmen Sandiego: Junior Detective Edition, all the games within the franchise are aimed at preteens.

Many entries in the franchise contain elements of various genres including mystery, comedy, science fiction, spy-fi, and fantasy. Main article: This was the original PBS series designed for children ages 8–12. The World game show was staged in a slightly off-skew detective office, which was part of the ACME agency with portraying 'The Chief' and portraying himself as a special agent in charge of training new recruits. Greg was helped in this training by various live-action and animated characters. Among the show's most popular were the members of the a cappella house band and comedy troupe,, who also sang the show's main theme song.

The game was played in three rounds: the first round was Q&A, where the two gumshoes with the highest scores proceeded to a second round. In the second round, the two remaining gumshoes had to find the loot, the warrant, and the cartoon crook in the correct order. The winning gumshoe captured the day's crook and later advanced to the third and final round to capture Carmen. As Greg shouted the names or places in a region of the world, the gumshoe had to place a marker on the corresponding place on a giant map of that area within a 45-second time limit. A successful gumshoe who placed all the correct locations and captured Carmen would win a trip to anywhere in the and later in.

Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? Main article: The Time game show refocused the show on history, but was otherwise similar to World with Thigpen reprising her role as 'The Chief'. Portrayed himself as a Time Pilot Squadron Leader and Rockapella was replaced by a different dance group, The Engine Crew.

The third and final round of the game involved the pilot answering six various history-related questions to open time gates. If the pilot answered correctly, he/she passed through the gate. Otherwise, the pilot had to turn a crank, pull a lever, or do some other task within the 90-second time limit. A successful pilot passing through all six gates and captured Carmen would win a personal computer. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Main article: The Earth animated series was a Saturday morning cartoon series produced. The show features the adventures of Zack and Ivy, two teenage siblings who worked as ACME agents in and were aided by the -like Chief, who had to stop Carmen (voiced by ) and her henchmen from stealing artifacts from around the world.

The series was the first Saturday-morning children's program ever to win the 'Best Animated Program' in 1996. Its episodes have subsequently been repeated on the, the network, Hub TV, and. The first season was released on by in 2006 and the complete series was later released by in 2012.

Book series and comics John Peel book series In the early 1990s, in response to the successful Carmen Sandiego franchise, 'editor Sharon Shavers was tasked with turning the games into a book series'. She gave the responsibility to John Peel.

His 'research' consisted of playing all the games, and this was followed by 'Sharon and [him] work[ing] out a format for the series' before he commenced writing. While in the past his natural tendency to add jokes to his work had been looked down upon, 'Sharon [actually] asked [him] to put more in'.

The art was done by Allan Neuwirth. The premise of each choose-your-own-adventure book is that 'you are the detective', and each title features 'four exciting detective adventures inside!' The books are written in the second person and in present tense, and have removable inserts that provided clues and the identities of the villains.

The books are published by the Canadian branch of Golden Books Publishing. • Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? (1991) • Where In The USA Is Carmen Sandiego?

Bloques De Maquinas De Coser En Autocad. (1991) • Where In Europe Is Carmen Sandiego? (1991) • Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego?

(1991) • Where In America's Past Is Carmen Sandiego? (1992) • Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego, Part II (1993) • Where In Space Is Carmen Sandiego?

(1993) • Where In The USA Is Carmen Sandiego? Part II (1994) • Where In America Is Carmen Sandiego? (1992) – this title was, as opposed to the others, 'a picture book like Where's Waldo?' , and the only picture book Peel ever wrote. • Where Is Carmen Sandiego? Calendar (1993) – this title was written for Workman Publishing, and Peel considers it 'the strangest – and most difficult – writing job [he] ever had' Melissa Peterson book series In 1997 another series of Carmen Sandiego books was written by Melissa Peterson and illustrated by S. Each book in the series was subtitled A Carmen Sandiego Mystery and featured child detectives Ben and Maya as the protagonists.

These books were titled: • Color Me Criminal • Hasta La Vista, Blarney • One T. Rex Over Easy • The Cocoa Commotion • Take The Mummy And Run • Highway Robbery Comic book series From mid 1996 to early 1997, four Carmen Sandiego comic books were published by in a series entitled Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? They involved the exploits of Evan Sawyer, 'Acme Detective Agency's newest and youngest gumshoe'.

• Issue #1 (June 1996) • Issue #2 (September 1996) • Issue #3 (November 1996) • Issue #4 (January 1997) Tabletop games University Games published a number of board games, and at least one card game, based on Carmen Sandiego throughout the 1990s. • Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? • Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

(1992) • The designer is A. Robert Moog • The number of players is 2 − 6 • The suggested playing time is 60min • The suggested ages are 10 and up • The game has two parts. First, players collect clues to work out which of Carmen's henchmen stole the landmark. Afterwards, players race to see who can catch the crook first. • Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego? (1993) • The number of players is 2 − 6 • The suggested playing time is 60min • The suggested ages are 8 and up • Where In The World is Carmen Sandiego? Card Game (1993) • The number of players is 2 − 10 • The suggested playing time is 15min • The suggested ages are 10 and up • Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

Junior Detective Edition (1994) • The number of players is 2 − 4 • The suggested playing time is 30min • The suggested ages are 4 and up • Where in Space is Carmen Sandiego (1995) • The number of players is 2 − 4 • The suggested playing time is 60min • Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego (1996) • The number of players is 2 − 4 • The suggested playing time is 60min • The suggested ages are 8 and up Other media Planetarium films. Main article: Where in the Universe Is Carmen Sandiego? Is a movie that was made to be played in a. It is less like a traditional movie, and more like one of the Carmen Sandiego game shows featured on with the live audience as the detectives. This film also featured as 'The Chief' and was based on Where in Space Is Carmen Sandiego? This marked Thigpen's final appearance of the franchise before her death of a cerebral hemorrhage on March 12, 2003. A sequel was later created called Where in the Universe is Carmen Sandiego?

Main article: Where in the World of Music is Carmen Sandiego? Is a concert series developed by Gary Sheldon. It consists of 3 concerts: The Case of the Missing Concert Hall, The Case of the Missing Bells, and The Case of the Missing Pyramids. Film were planning to make a film version of 'Carmen Sandiego', with as the title character in the late 1990s. Has planned to make a version of the film with as both Carmen Sandiego and producer of the film with her production company. Writer Darren Lemke ( ) has been attached to write the screenplay in July 2012.

Other In the late 1990s, the Metro Washington Park Zoo in,, (now the ), in conjunction with, ran a summer-long event titled Where in the Zoo Is Carmen Sandiego?, which functioned as a full-immersion live-action Carmen game in which zoo patrons were the investigating detectives. Actors were hired to play Carmen's henchmen, who could be found around the zoo, and on occasions a costumed Carmen appeared as well, but never in a location where patrons could interact with her. Clues were given out at various stations by members of the ZooTeens volunteer group. In 2016, NPR held an homage to the WinWiCS gameshow entitled Where in the Mall is Carmen Sandiego? In which incoming theft reports from ACME CrimeNet are relayed to contestants who must then work out which store in the mall is being referred to. It was part of the podcast called NPR Programs: Ask Me Another.

Awards As of February 3, 1999, the franchise has won over 70 awards. They include: • Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego? Version 3.0: World Class Award – Best CD-ROM for Children, PC World, July 1997 • Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

Version 3.0: 'Best Software of '97 – around the world for ages 9-12', Child Magazine, Dec/Jan 1997 • Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego? Version 3.0: 'Best Software of '97 – around the world for ages 9-12', Child Magazine, Dec/Jan 1997 • Carmen Sandiego Series: Family PC – Top 50 Products, Family PC, July/August 1997 • Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

Version 2.0, 1996 PC World Class Award, PC World, 1996 • Carmen Sandiego Junior Detective Edition, Silver Apple Award, National Educational Media Network, May 1996 • Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? • Bernstein, Sharon (1991-09-30).. Retrieved 2010-08-25.

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From the moment she stormed the edutainment scene in 1983, international thief Carmen Sandiego™ has been dodging the crime-fighting moves of student sleuths and nostalgic adults, leaving a trail of essential geography, civics, history, astronomy, language arts, and math lessons in her wake. The original Carmen Sandiego software series delivered a new educational experience in 1985.

Its creators designed the engaging detective-style games to stimulate players' interest in geography, world cultures, astronomy, and history—disguising interactive learning as entertaining game-play. The powerful combination achieved immediate success with students. School districts began incorporating Carmen Sandiego into their elementary curricula, eventually bringing it to over 300,000 schools nationwide. Since its inception, the Carmen Sandiego software series has also garnered more than 90 education and parent awards. Carmen brought her lessons to television five years later. In 1990, the Emmy-winning Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?

Kids' game show premiered on PBS, attracting 5.5 million weekly viewers and earning the ranking of 'most watched' by nine- to 13-year-olds. Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?, FOX's animated Carmen Sandiego series for kids, debuted in 1996 and was the first Saturday-morning children's program ever to win a 'Best Animated Program' Emmy. A second award-winning iteration of the live-action game show, Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?, also debuted in 1996 on PBS. In addition to key core subject lessons, the game shows and animated cartoon taught young viewers important critical-thinking and socialization skills as they watched guests and actors analyze clues and collaborate toward the common goal of defeating Carmen and her V.I.L.E. The world's favorite dynamic villainess continues to educate, entertain, and elude her audience generation after generation. Will we ever catch Carmen? Will we ever stop trying?

Because through the pursuit we learn! For students, the only better feeling than the thrill of chasing Carmen Sandiego around the world is the empowerment that comes from the clever knowledge she teaches them.