He realized another this month when he traveled to Israel for 10 days as the 200,000th participant in Taglit-Birthright Israel, an organization that provides first-time educational trips to Israel for Jewish young adults.
Last October, the Special Olympics set up an awareness program in schools in the Irish Republic and in Northern Ireland -- the first time the educational systems had collaborated -- and now is urging the governments to continue it, said the chief executive of the 2003 World Games, Mary Davis.
This article explores, for the first time, the educational value of personal Footprint calculators and their contribution in terms of enhancing awareness of the environmental consequences of consumption behaviors.
We were aware that this was the first time any educational institution had enabled an entire class of students to analyze their own personal genomes, and so adopted a 'first do no harm' position with the course.
This marked the first time the National Assessment of Educational Progress -- known as the Nation's Report Card -- measured how students performed on hands-on and interactive computer tasks, as opposed to more traditional "paper and pencil" tests.
The association defined and regulated the breed for the first time and undertook many educational and promotional campaigns.
This isn't the first time Facebook has offered educational resources aimed at young people.
Sotheby's, the haughty auction house, says proposed IRS rules setting for the first time a bare-bones educational level for art appraisers rendering valuations for tax purposes would disqualify "many" of its 100 appraisers.
It was also the first time a show's educational effects on young children were studied.
