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7 Major Awards for SchoolNet Global
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SchoolNet Global has enjoyed enormous success and critical acclaim. It is the biggest contributory children's website on the globe and has netted six major awards to date. Now thoroughly tried and tested by over 500,000 children in 18,000 schools, the project is expanding around the world.
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Biggest on the Planet
The Guinness World Record proved that, in 2000 with already a staggering 130,000 children taking part in 18,000 schools, SchoolNet Global was officially acclaimed as the biggest children's contributory education website on the planet. And it's still growing, with new members every day!
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New Statesman New Media Award 2000
Tesco SchoolNet 2000, now SchoolNet Global, was voted "The Internet project that has made the most use of new media technologies with the objective of promoting life-long learning and education," by a panel of 13 judges, which included Alex Allan, Government e-envoy, Nigel Evans MP, Vice-chairman Conservative Party and Jon Snow, main presenter for Channel 4 News.
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No 2 in the Industry
Intuitive Media won the IVCA (International Visual Communications Awards) Silver Award for Effective Business Commmunication for the development of SchoolNet Global. IVCA Awards are recognised internationally as marks of excellence for effective business communication. There is no higher accolade for creativity, originality, production expertise and sheer effectiveness in communication for the Internet and Television.
Bob and Carole Hart-Fletcher received the award, "This is a great accolade, we are delighted to receive this on behalf of the SchoolNet Global team, Tesco, Ultralab, developers, Advisory teachers, and of course over 18,000 teachers and 130,000 children (in 2001) who are the authors of SchoolNet Global.'"
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Better than the Simpsons?
In the face of stiff competition, SchoolNet Global won both the Best Educational Sponsorship Award and Sponsorship of the Year Award in recognition that it made the "greatest contribution to the public while bringing the greatest benefits to sponsors." Competitors included the Premier League sponsored by Carling and The Simpsons on Sky TV, sponsored by Domino. The Hollis Awards are the European Sponsorship Consultants Association's most prestigious awards for sponsorship projects.
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SchoolNet wins BETT Award
Intuitive Media was awarded the prestigious 1999 BETT Award for Best Education Website for our work on the SchoolNet Global website. BETT is the leading exhibition for ICT in Education and the BETT Awards are designed to reward excellence in product design in all areas of ICT. The awards highlight successful, innovative learning initiatives and are judged according to votes by education professionals in the field.
As winners we featured alongside Microsoft and Apple Computer.
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Best in 1000 years
Intuitive Media's SchoolNet Global project was voted one of the UK's "most brilliant products and services" by the Design Council in their Millennium Products awards in 1999/2000. In making the award, the panel of judges from industry, design and the media said that SchoolNet was "pioneering in its field, forward-thinking, challenging, creative and innovative and actively made a difference to people's lives."
Other Millennium Products include Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, the new London black cab, the Land Rover Freelander, Tomb Raider and the Remarkable Recycled Pencil.
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SchoolNet Global
The Project
Partner Schools
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