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‘netTrekker’ Earns 2005 Golden
Lamp Award
from Association of Educational Publishers
Academic search engine from Thinkronize
recognized for significant impact in education technology
Cincinnati, OH - As the infinite wealth of information available on the Internet is being tapped for educational purposes by nearly every U.S. student, Thinkronize, Inc. has acted as an educational visionary by creating a solution to ensure that students and educators can access safe, trusted Internet resources. The netTrekker academic search engine, developed by Thinkronize, has been honored for its impact in classrooms nationwide with the 2005 Golden Lamp Award in the Technology Category from the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP).
The Golden Lamp is the most prestigious award within the field of educational publishing. Publishing professionals, educators and librarians recognize winners as providing the most outstanding materials for learning. In addition to encompassing content and design that transcends the best in its category, Golden Lamp submissions are critiqued on their fulfillment of their educational mission.
Awarding a perfect score, the six-judge panel unanimously agreed that netTrekker not only meets the goals of its mission, but it fills an overwhelming classroom need. Randy Wilhelm, president and CEO of Thinkronize, accepted the award on behalf of the students whose learning is being positively impacted by use of the netTrekker search engine.
Nearly 4 million students and a quarter of a million teachers in 47 states are using the award-winning netTrekker search engine to enhance learning. netTrekker delivers only the best educational resources from the entire Internet to a student’s desktop, saving valuable time and making searches safe and powerfully productive.
Ann Dalton, program administrator of textbooks, libraries & media services for San Francisco Unified School District, represents one of the 6,000 schools relying on netTrekker to deliver safe, quality information to students over the Internet. “netTrekker is an exciting resource for our students and teachers,” said Dalton. “Students can go straight to reliable, informative online resources without wasting time sifting through countless off-target or questionable sites. And, teachers get great educator-selected resources tied to the curriculum and our state standards.”
Golden Lamp Award entries are judged against all audiences and types in their respective category (Instructional Materials, Books, Periodicals, and Technology). Thus only four Golden Lamps are awarded annually and the winners are referred to as the “best of the best.” Companies enter the Golden Lamps because they believe they have the best Instructional Material, Book, Periodical, or Technology product overall. Prior to winning the Golden Lamp Award, netTrekker also earned a Distinguished Achievement Award from AEP in 2004, and recently was awarded two 2005 Codie awards from the Software & Information Industry Association.
AEP, founded in 1895, is a national, nonprofit organization that represents, supports and promotes the publishers of supplemental educational resources, key tools for reading and learning at school and at home. Thinkronize joins an elite cadre of companies in the supplemental publishing field who have been honored for excellence in their products. An AEP award, earned after thorough analysis by a national panel of experts, confers upon the winner the right to display the coveted Lamp of Learning logo, which tells consumers a product has met the highest standard of excellence. For more information, visit www.edpress.org/awards/lampwin.htm.
About netTrekker
netTrekker is the award-winning academic search engine specifically
designed for school use. Unlike ordinary search engines, netTrekker
delivers only the best educational resources from the entire Internet in a
safe, organized, standards-aligned format to every desktop, helping to increase
student achievement. Using netTrekker, educators, librarians, students,
and parents save valuable time because they receive only safe, relevant educator-selected
results, allowing them to spend less time searching and more time focused on
learning.
To learn more about netTrekker, visit www.netTrekker.com.
About Thinkronize
Thinkronize, an Internet developer of award-winning K-12 educational products,
was founded by Robert Reinders in
July 1999 and grew out of a passion and commitment to enhancing teaching and
learning with the Internet and standards-based online resources. The company’s
premier product, netTrekker, the trusted search engine for schools,
was launched in October 2000. Since netTrekker’s launch, Thinkronize
has enjoyed continued growth, success and industry recognition and awards.
netTrekker is being adopted by key districts nationwide and is known
to be one of the best products in the education industry. For more information
visit www.thinkronize.com or phone
877-517-1125.
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