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About the Fairfax Network

Who We Are

The Fairfax Network is an award-winning producer of distance learning programming that originates in Fairfax County Public Schools, Virginia. For more than 15 years, we have provided enrichment programs to schools and cable stations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Passport Collection

Each year The Fairfax Network creates programming for educators to use in the classroom, and for public television stations and cable systems. The lineup includes quality K-12 enrichment, parenting, and staff development programs. Many of the shows come with additional resource information, teacher guides, and classroom activities created to fit seamlessly into the curriculum.

Fairfax Network rograms are free to schools, school systems, cable companies, and public television programmers.

Our Studios

The Nancy Sprague Technology Center houses our state-of-the–art production studio located in Annandale, Virginia. Here you will find our professional grade television studio, control room, and video and sound mixing rooms.

Our Team of Professionals

Experienced producers, creative multimedia designers, and veteran educators provide video production solutions that motivate the audience to think.

Awards

Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) Teleproductions and Communications Design teams won a regional Emmy Award for Flight School: Higher, Faster, Farther! In addition, we have earned 48 Telly Awards since 2001.

We are recognized as a producer of award winning programming by the following organizations.

Educational Press Association of America

International Communications Industry Association

International Television Association

National School Boards Association

National School Public Relations Association

United States Distance Learning Association

Partnerships

Fairfax Network has worked in conjunction with the following agencies and organizations to produce programming

Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association, Northern Virginia Chapter

American Association of University Women

American Chemical Society

British Telecomm

Challenger Center for Space Science Education

Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD)

Cox Communications, Inc.

Department of Defense

Federal Reserve Board

George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens

Goethe Institut

Kurtis Productions/WTTS—Chicago

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Crime Prevention Council

National Institute for Citizen Education and the Law

National Science Foundation

National Wildlife Federation

National Zoological Park

Smithsonian Institution

United States Geological Survey

Virginia Chamber Orchestra

Virginia Department of Education

Virginia Quality Education in Science and Technology (V-QUEST)