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Science4Us CODiE Award Winner
Science4Us Wins SIIA Education CODiE Award
for Best Science Instructional Solution
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL (May 18, 2016) – Science4Us, a K-2 interactive science program, today won a 2016 SIIA CODiE Award in the Best Science Instructional Solution category.
Sister site VocabularySpellingCity, a game-based program to build K-12 literacy skills, was a finalist in the Best Game-Based Curriculum Solution category.
The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier awards for the software and information industries, and have been recognizing product excellence for more than 30 years.
VocabularySpellingCity and Science4Us were among 160 finalists across 29 education technology categories.
“We’re honored and thrilled that the CODiE Awards has recognized Science4Us as a leader in providing elementary students with science education,” said John Edelson, founder of VocabularySpellingCity and Science4Us. “Foundational STEM instruction at the earliest learning levels has long been neglected. Science4Us was created to fill an important need, providing tools that build both science and literacy knowledge in K-2 students, encouraging them to explore and preparing them to excel.”
The top honor of best overall educational product will be presented at the Education Industry Symposium, the nation’s leading education technology conference, in Denver on July 26.
All winners are listed at https://www.siia.net/codie/2016-Winners.
About Science4Us
Science4Us is a complete, standards-based, core science curriculum that delivers digital and real-world science experiences to early elementary students. Its mission is to provide a solid foundation of fundamental science concepts for students in their formative years, upon which a deep understanding and interest in science can be built. Science4Us enables teachers to deliver an exemplary science educational experience to their early elementary school students. To learn more, visit http://www.science4us.com or follow us on http://www.twitter.com/science4ussays or http://www.facebook.com/science4us.
About VocabularySpellingCity
VocabularySpellingCity is an innovative, game-based website and app used to build K-12 literacy skills in vocabulary, spelling, phonics, and writing. Educators and families can customize more than 35 engaging activities for students at every learning level, creating their own word lists or using thousands on the site. The learning activities support core standards, to provide practice and to supplement any curriculum. Family and school memberships are available in both free and premium versions. To learn more, visit http://VocabularySpellingCity.com or follow us on https://twitter.com/spellingcity or https://www.facebook.com/spellingcity.
About the SIIA CODiE™ Awards
The SIIA CODiE Awards is the only peer-reviewed program to showcase business and education technology’s finest products and services. Since 1986, thousands of products, services and solutions have been recognized for achieving excellence. For more information, visit siia.net/CODiE.
About ETIN
ETIN (the Education Technology Industry Network of SIIA) is the leading voice for 200+ companies that provide software applications, digital content, online learning services and related technologies across the PK-20 sector. ETIN drives growth and innovation within the industry by providing leadership, advocacy, business development opportunities, government relations and critical ed tech market information. For more information, visit siia.net/etin.
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Contacts:
Perri Robinson, Science4Us: perri.robinson@science4us.com
Victoria O’Gorman, VocabularySpellingCity: victoria.ogorman@spellingcity.com
Allison Bostrom, SIIA Communications: 202.789.4466, abostrom@siia.net