March 2021 – The Futures Forum on Learning, an organization that supports innovation in the field of learning engineering, announced the winners of its Tools Competition. Among them is the global non-profit organization NABU that ranked among the Mid-Range & Large Prize winners with its project called NABU formative literacy assessment. Read more…
December 2016 — Learning Ally’s mobile app LINK has been awarded as the Best Education Mobile Application for 2016 by the Web Marketing Association.
Astea’s team developed the application in cooperation with the creative agency SOS Brooklyn for the non-profit organization Learning Ally. The mobile app is designed to transform the learning experience for students with dyslexia, learning disabilities or visual impairment. LINK is available for both mobile and desktop devices. With its flexible design and great performance, it certainly deserves this 2016 mobile award for outstanding achievement in mobile development.
Source: http://www.mobile-webaward.org/mwa/winner.asp?eid=11371
April 2016 — Astea’s team won the “Best Use of Data” award at NASA Space Apps Challenge 2016 — the largest hackathon in the universe. We chose to tackle the Aircheck challenge and named our solution “Boreas” after the Thracian god of north wind.
Boreas is a data visualization and analysis tool that aims to find out whether air pollution might be the cause for the recent rise of allergies. Read more…
May 2015 — SocialBook, a social reading platform developed at Astea and co-owned by Astea and publishing industry visionary, Bob Stein, was nominated as one of 20 semi-finalists in BookExpo America’s Start Up Challenge. While we unfortunately did not win the challenge, SocialBook did win the BookExpo Challenge’s People’s Choice Award for best start up!
September 2014 — CourseKicker was announced a winner of the NYC’s BigApps challenge! Among the 20 finalists in the Learn category CourseKicker was honoured with the grand prize as the best tool that allows teachers to connect, collaborate and share best practices with colleagues beyond their own schools, anywhere in the world.
CourseKicker uses social networking and crowdsourcing techniques to help teachers build strong professional networks, discover best practices, and recommend new connections and great lessons. Read more…