Noyo Has Been Nominated for Honors in the Category of Edtech Educational App at the 2013 Annual Bammy Awards
Boston, MA (PRWEB) July 29, 2013 -- Noyo, a Boston-based educational software company is pleased to announce that they have been nominated for honors in the category of Educational Technology app at the 2013 Annual Bammy Awards.
Presented by the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences International, the Bammy award is a cross-discipline award recognizing the contributions of educators from across the education field.
"Nominees like Noyo are making a difference in education every day. It's more important now that ever to publicly honor educators and to show what's right with American Education," said Errol St. Clair Smith, executive producer of the Bammy Awards. “The positive response to the inaugural Bammy Awards in 2012 was overwhelming. Clearly the notion of collaboratively acknowledging what our nation's educators are doing well is an idea whose time has come."
"Noyo is honored to be recognized for our educational language app series," adds Mike Sullivan, President a Noyo. "Currently we have dozens of language apps in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Mandarin, English and Hebrew."
Honorees will be announced on September 21st at a red-carpet event in Washinton D.C. The Bammy Awards are presented by The Academy of Education Arts and Sciences International, which includes leading educators, education leaders, education professors, journalists, editors, researchers, commentators, advocates, activists, visionaries and pioneers. The Academy is comprised of a board of governors, a council of peers and the executive committee.
Language apps by Noyo, an innovative departure from typical flashcards and older vocabulary-building systems, takes the user on a virtual journey through a colorful landscape of exciting scenes. The curriculum introduces words and phrases in context to help beginning learners strengthen their vocabulary in a second language.
Noyo’s attractive, interactive platform features nearly 200 custom-illustrated scenes, professional audio, and built-in assessment questions to help students learn over 1,800 English vocabulary words and phrases.
About the Bammy Awards:
The Bammy Awards is a cross-discipline award that identifies and acknowledges the good work being done all across the education village. The Bammy Awards were created in response to the tremendous national pressure on educators and education leaders to improve student outcomes, the impact of high-stakes accountability and the intense scrutiny that today's educators face.
The Awards aim to foster cross-discipline recognition of the collective contributions being made to educate children, encourage collaboration in and across the various domains, elevate education and education successes in the public eye, and raise the profile and voices of the many undervalued and unrecognized people who are making a difference in the field.
The Bammy Award is sponsored by BAM Radio Network, which produces education radio shows for the nation's leading education associations. On-air hosts include:
Gail Connelly, executive director of the National Association of Elementary School Principals
Dan Domenech, executive director of the American Association of School Administrators
Yasmina Vinci, executive director of the National Head Start Association
John Musso, executive director of the Association of School Business Officials
Donna Mazyck, executive director of the National Association of School Nurses
Jodi Grant, executive director of the Afterschool Alliance
Linda Geigle, executive director of the National Association for Family Child Care
Diane Whitehead, executive director of the Association for Childhood Education International
Glenda Bean, executive director of the Southern Early Childhood Association
Noyo is headquartered in Boston, MA. It is dedicated to providing engaging, cost-effective, high-value supplemental learning tools for tablets to language learners of all ages. More information can be found at http://www.noyo.com.
Ted Chan, Noyo, http://www.noyo.com, 781-856-8685, [email protected]
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