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Awards and Recognition

2009 CTIA Emerging Technology Awards
2nd Place Award Winner: WeatherBug Protect
The CTIA Emerging Technology Awards program is designed to give industry recognition and exposure to the best new wireless products and services. WeatherBug placed second in the category "Mobile Applications & Widgets: Healthcare/Public Safety/Transportation/Public Services" for WeatherBug Protect, the only location-based mobile alerting system to utilize the WeatherBug Network of nationwide weather sensors, providing customers with real-time, local alerts integrated with notifications from the National Weather Service.

American Meteorological Society Presents WeatherBug® Prestigious 2006 Corporate Award for Outstanding Services
AMS Recognizes WeatherBug Leadership and its Nationwide WeatherBug Network for "Providing Real Time Data for Education, Government and Industry, Thereby Furthering the Science and Enhancing the Applications of Meteorology Significantly"

IDG InfoWorld Names WeatherBug one of 100 Most Innovative Corporate IT Solutions for 2005
The annual awards honor IT projects that demonstrate the most creative use of cutting-edge technologies to further their business goals. Nominations were submitted by InfoWorld readers, technology partners, and end-user companies in late-summer.

Media & Methods 2001, 2002, 2003 Awards Portfolio: (WeatherBug Achieve)
Each year, Media & Methods Magazine recognizes products and services that are known to be high quality K-12 educational resources. Judges make product selections based on: comprehensiveness, versatility in teaching multiple subject matter, ease of use, innovation, and product strengths. The newly enhanced WeatherBug Achieve won this award for the third year in a row.

2003 Districts Choice Award: (WeatherBug Achieve)
WeatherBug Achieve was recently nominated and selected for the 2003 Districts Choice Award by District Administration Magazine. A panel of educational professionals and district administrators selected the WeatherBug Education Program to be among its top 100 educational learning technologies.

2001 Smithsonian Laureate:
Every year, Computerworld honors information technology innovators whose work produces and promotes positive social, economic or educational change. Nominated by chairmen of the world's leading IT companies, Computerworld Smithsonian Laureates are considered to be true revolutionaries in their respective fields. WeatherBug's President and CEO, Bob Marshall, received this distinguished award for the WeatherBug Achieve Program.

2003 Friend of Education Award (NASBE) (WeatherBug Achieve)
The National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) has bestowed the 2003 Friend of Education Award to Robert S. Marshall, President/CEO of AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc. AWS is known nationally for its award-winning educational program, called WeatherNet Classroom, now WeatherBug Achieve, and for WeatherBug, one of the top web sites in the world.

2001 NEA Foundation's Hilda Maehling Award (WeatherBug Achieve)
The NEA Foundation's prestigious Hilda Maehling Award was won by Kenneth Sopelak, a fourth grade teacher at Webster Hill Elementary School in Hartford, CT, for his innovative application of the WeatherBug Achieve program. The Hilda Maehling Award recognizes an individual who builds on the professional development funded by an NEA Foundation Leadership Grant by enhancing the academic skills of additional faculty or staff. According to Sopelak, WeatherBug Achieve proved "…so powerful that we were able to enrich our entire curriculum in kindergarten through fifth grade in math, science, social studies and language arts."