MicrosoftEvidence: Low40/100

Trust for the National Mall educational platform with Microsoft Foundry

Use case typeEducational content platformUpdated Apr 1, 2025

Trust for the National Mall partnered with Centered Networks to build an Azure-based educational platform called the National Mall Gateway. The platform offers lesson plans, virtual tours, and curated resources for teachers, students, and visitors, with generative AI in Microsoft Foundry helping draft educational content.

Organization
Trust for the National Mall
Industry
Other
Location
United States
Published
April 2025

Reported outcomes

Strategic outcomes

Employee experienceSaved teachers hours of preparationCustomer experience & trustEnabled learning from anywhereRisk & complianceReduced misinformation risk through curated content
Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
Customer
Trust for the National Mall
Provider
Microsoft
Maturity
Unknown
Linked source
Microsoft

No explicit deployment-stage evidence found.

Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity evidence evaluated

Primary read

Use case focus

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  • 1Educational content platform
  • 2Lesson planning automation
Create an online civic education experience for the National Mall that helps teachers plan faster, reduces misinformation, and improves equitable access for students and visitors while building learning content responsibly.
  • The Trust built the National Mall Gateway on Azure with Azure App Service, Azure Monitor, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Front Door, Web Application Firewall, and Microsoft Foundry generative AI.
  • The Foundry model was grounded on a National Park Service catalog and all content was reviewed before publication.
Technologies
Microsoft FoundryAzure App ServiceAzure MonitorMicrosoft Defender for CloudAzure DDoS ProtectionAzure Front DoorAzure Web Application FirewallAzure Virtual MachinesTerraform
  • Teachers can plan lessons and field trips faster, students can explore the Mall from anywhere, and the platform supports accessible, always-on learning.
  • The Trust anticipates major traffic spikes around the 250th anniversary and uses Azure to scale securely.
Architecture

Centered Networks built the National Mall Gateway on Azure for Trust for the National Mall. The solution uses Microsoft Foundry generative AI to draft educational resources from a National Park Service catalog, with all content reviewed by the Trust before publication. The platform runs on Azure App Service and is protected and observed with Azure Monitor, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Front Door, and Azure Web Application Firewall, plus Azure Virtual Machines and Terraform for resilient infrastructure.

Implementation partners1
Centered Networks
Sources & evidence1
Evidence: Low40/100Evidence strength
  • Customer explicitly identified
  • Primary source available
  • Technical implementation details available
Type: Customer StoryPublished: Apr 1, 2025Publisher: MicrosoftEvidence: PrimaryConfidence: High
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