We're a Makey Award Nominee!

“The envelope, please”.

 

Unlike the Oscars at the Makey awards you are not likely to hear Tom Cruise or Julia Roberts utter this phrase before announcing the winners. And there probably won’t be an accountant from Price Waterhouse Coopers overseeing the voting tabulation, nor a walk down the red carpet past
Joan Rivers nor celebrity mingling at a Vanity Fair magazine party afterward.  Still, we’re going to be really excited  when the MAKE Magazine Industry Maker (Makey) award winners are announced at a swanky award ceremonies at World Maker Faire, New York 2012 (Sept 28 & 29), since it is with special pleasure that we tell you element14 has been nominated for a 2012 Makey award in the Education category.

 

We’re one of 16 companies that “have shown outstanding support for independent maker/hacker culture" over the past year.

 

 

 

Here’s how MAKE magazine’s Sean Regan described us in his recent post:

 

“e14 continues to deliver as a substantive resource for electronics professionals and hobbyists alike. Their platform is very well designed, and the experience of the site delivers on Web 2.0′s promise in ways that many others have tried, and failed, to do. Here, good software design, attentive management, and lots of hard work have actually built an engaged user community. Subject-oriented interest groups, many with on-call resident experts, provide working forums where both newcomers and old hands can usually find friendly, informed answers to their questions in short order. Active blogs on over 100 subjects provide up-to-the-minute news, and a busy webinar schedule provides free training on everything from software, to design workflow, to legislation trends.”

 

Thank you, sir. And thanks to you, our engineering audience for helping us to make element14 interesting and informative reading as well as a nominee for a Makey award. And win or lose you can rest assured that we will try our best to continue to educate, and occasionally entertain, you going forward.

 

Now where’s my tux?

 

P.S. Voting is public and we hope we can count on your vote when it begins Sept. 20th

Here's what the official nomination said: