Mentor launches educational tools

BOULDER – Mentor InterActive Inc., a Boulder-based company spawned from the University of Colorado at Boulder, partnered with Troy, N.Y.-based 1st Playable Productions LLC to produce educational tools for kids.

The new product, My Virtual Tutor Reading Adventures, is a software series designed to help teach pre-kindergarten through second-grade children how to read. It’s scheduled to launch for Nintendo DS on Aug. 18, Nintendo Wii in spring 2010 and other platforms after that.

The $30 software, which incorporates a virtual tutor, is designed for children to use on their own through interactive books, games and other exercises, said Hank Kaplan, Mentor InterActive’s…