Awards

The 2011 AAPD Leadership Gala and Anniversary Celebration featured the policy makers, decision makers and thought leaders who successfully forged and passed the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act and subsequently founded AAPD, the largest cross disability membership organization in the United States, working toward the economic self-sufficiency and political power for the more than 50 million Americans with disabilities.

eSchool News 
In what could be called a 21st-century teachers’ fair, Microsoft chose a select group of educators to participate in the company’s annual Innovative Education Forum (IEF)—a showcase of the best teacher-created projects that incorporate 21st-century skills and effective uses of education technology. IEF is part of Microsoft’s Innovative Teachers program, a global community of [...]

eSchool News 
An interface that allows hearing-impaired people to communicate with others using an augmented-reality environment took home the grand prize of $25,000 in the eighth annual Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals in Poland, a prestigious international programming contest for high school and college students. Team Skeek, a team of university students from Thailand, was responsible for [...]

The Seattle Times  
An elite group of student engineers will gather in Poland from July 3-8 to crunch code for Microsoft’s Imagine Cup. The competition will feature students showing off software aimed at fighting global problems—such as reducing hunger and poverty, and improving education and child health.
The Imagine Cup competition has drawn 325,000 students from 100 [...]

eSchool News  
How can technology be leveraged to deliver a world-class education affordably to students in developing countries? That’s the question a new competition asks, and the best idea will earn $10,000 for its creator.
Many school-age children in developing countries need access to educational opportunities, and the publication The Economist and InnoCentive Inc. have turned to [...]

eSchool News 
The Education Division of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) showcased some of the leading growth companies in the education technology market and recognized the best among them as part of the Innovation Incubator Program at its annual Ed Tech Industry Summit, held May 24, 2010, in San Francisco. The Innovation Incubator Program [...]

THE Journal  
The 2010 We Can Change the World Challenge awarded top prizes to teams of K-8 students that developed the best plans rooted in science, technology, engineering and math that would spur community action to improve the environment.
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eSchool News 
A project to show youth-produced videos on 2,200 Los Angeles city buses, the next generation of a graphical programming language that allows young people to create their own interactive features, and an online game that teaches kids the environmental impact of their personal choices are among 10 winning projects that will share $1.7 million [...]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
A Web-based science game being designed to interest more girls in science and gaming technology won $200,000 in the MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition. The Carnegie Science Center’s Click!Online game will feature a fictional spy agency where girls can solve real-world challenges in environmental protection, “expressive technology” and biomedical science. “Senior agents” will [...]

Education Week  
Do you have some big ideas about the way that online learning can help overcome barriers to universal education in developing nations around the world? If so, you may be a candidate for the 21st Century Cyberschools Challenge, hosted by The Economist and InnoCentive Inc., which fosters innovation in corporate, government, and nonprofit organizations.
People [...]

eSchool News 
The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) and the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) have teamed up on a new awards program that will recognize an outstanding online teacher for his or her exceptional contributions to virtual K-12 education.
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THE Journal
The winners of the Worldwide Innovative Teacher Awards, presented my Microsoft Partners in Learning were announced Friday at Microsoft’s 2009 Worldwide Innovative Education Forum (IEF) being held in Salvador, Brazil. The awards recognize teachers who demonstrate exemplary use of technology in the classroom to improve student learning.
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The Foundation for Technology Education in cooperation with Pitsco/Hearlihy and Co. has announced a $2,000 Pitsco/Hearlihy/FTE Grant for a K-12 technology teacher as a way to recognize and encourage the integration of a quality technology education program within the school curriculum. Teachers must provide evidence of an effective quality technology education program, show documented success [...]

The Tech Museum have announced The Tech Awards Laureates 2009, 15 innovators from around the world who have committed their groundbreaking work to solving humanity’s most pressing challenges. The Tech Awards recognizes Laureates in five categories: environment, economic development, education, equality, and health. These Laureates have developed new technological solutions or innovative ways to use [...]

The 2010 Vernier/National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Technology Award program is now open. Each year, the program awards cash, technology, and travel funds for science teachers who demonstrate innovation in inquiry-based learning activities involving data collection.
This year’s competition will award up to seven prizes to K-12 and post-secondary educators (one elementary, two middle school, three [...]

Discovery Education has been honored with two 2009 BESSIE Awards. Discovery Education Science for Elementary was awarded a BESSIE in the Best Science Web Site for Upper Elementary category for a second year in a row.  Discovery Education Science for Elementary is a standards-based digital resource for upper elementary school students, featuring a broad array [...]

Sebit, LLC has been honored with a 2009 BESSIE Award for its online learning system Adaptive Curriculum. Products were chosen based on academic content, potential for broad classroom use, technical merit, subject approach, and management system.
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The Fourth Annual International Edublog awards were held this month on Second Life. See the winning blogs.

An impressive group of 42 students in 15 teams representing 10 universities comprised this year’s RESNA’s Student Design Competition sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Among the top winners were the University of Texas, University of North Carolina, NJ Institute of Technology, University of Arkansas, and Northwestern University. Each winner was awarded an engraved caliper.

People with disabilities do everything! That’s the message Roger McCarville, 2007 daVinci Awardee, is talking about on his national show, Disabilities Today. The show is a weekly television program airing the issues faced by the disabled. Check your local PBS channel for air times. The 2007 Da Vinci Awards will be presented at a gala event Friday, September 28.

The National School Boards Association (NSBA) has named three school systems as 2007 Salute Districts in recognition of their focus on technology to promote student achievement.

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society have recognized individuals and organizations for their outstanding design innovations aimed at helping the disabled overcome barriers and further empower all people. The 2007 winners will be honored Friday, September 28th at the da Vinci Awards gala at the Ritz Carlton in Dearborn, Michigan. Past winners include a Who’s Who of accessible design.

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society have recognized individuals and organizations for their outstanding design innovations aimed at helping the disabled overcome barriers and further empower all people. The winners will be honored Friday, September 28th at the 2007 da Vinci Awards gala at the Ritz Carlton in Dearborn, Michigan.

The Microsoft 2007 Imagine Cup is an international competition with $25,000 as the grand prize with $170,000 given overall. Now in its fourth year, competition organizers are seeing student contestants take on the challenge of creating designs for users with disabilities. Final awards will be announced in August.