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Deep Brain Stimulation Activity Wins Kids at Play Interactive Award
Best Children’s Web Site or Service: Deep Brain Stimulation from Edheads “for empowering children with a powerful, realistic simulation.” http://www.edheads.org
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Winners of the Kids at Play Interactive (KAPi) awards were announced last week at the Kids@Play Summit; the Summit was part of the Consumer Electronics Show which took place in Las Vegas. KAPi finalists were selected by a group of publishers and critics, with
winners determined by a popular vote of attendees at the 2010 Kids@Play
Summit.
The best virtual world award went to Club Penguin by New Horizon Interactive for the Disney Interactive Media Group. The award singled out the site’s commitment to innovation, specifically the site’s new features and translation features.
(Club Penguin co-creator Lane Merrifield will deliver a keynote at next month’s Engage! Expo taking place in New York City.)
Other winners after the jump.
Best Children’s App: Wheels on the Bus from Duck Duck Moose Design “for tapping the potential of multi-touch for children.”
Best Interactive Toy: Tag Reading System from LeapFrog Learning “for using technology to help children decode print.”
Best Children’s Web Site or Service: Deep Brain Stimulation from Edheads “for empowering children with a powerful, realistic simulation.” http://www.edheads.org
Best Music and Rhythm Product: The Beatles Rock Band from Harmonix Music Systems “for setting a new standard in the rhythm-game genre, and helping to bridge the generation gap.”
Best Computer Software: World of Goo by 2D Boy and Brighter Minds Media “for playfully introducing powerful scientific building concepts in a puzzle setting.”
Best Title for the Nintendo DS or DSi: Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box by Level-5 and published by Nintendo “for offering children a quality problem solving experience.”
Best Hardware or Peripheral Device for Kids: iPod Touch (2009 Edition) from Apple “for giving children access to thousands of affordable multi-touch experiences.”
Best Informal Learning Experience: Scratch v. 1.4 from the MIT Media Lab “for effective use of public grant money to create a product that anyone can use at no cost.”
Best Video Game for Kids: LittleBigPlanet: Game of the Year Edition from Sony Computer Entertainment America “for playfully transforming a game console into a powerful creativity tool.”
Digital Pioneer for Kids: Mitchel Resnick, Lifelong Learning Group, MIT Media Lab, “led the team that created the Scratch programming language, recognized as the individual that has made the largest impact on children’s technology design.”