element14 takes home Makey award for “best education/outreach program” at World Maker Faire New York | Premier

What's better than @element14 winning a #Makey award? Having @Raspberry Pi and @Jeri Ellsworth win one too!

element14’s commitment to collaboration, community and leading-edge technology, such as Raspberry Pi and Arduino Open-Source, helps makers to share and design freely LONDON – Oct. 4, 2012 – element14 , the first collaborative community and electronics store for design engineers and electronics enthusiasts and a part of global electronics distributor Premier Farnell [LON:PFL], has won the 2012 Makey Award for the “Best Education/Outreach Program,” awarded at this year’s World Maker Faire New York. Beating competition from Intel, NASA and Autodesk with an overwhelming majority of the votes, element14 was recognized for its work in providing education and support to the growing ‘maker’ community through its forums, tutorials and videos. Drawing a crowd of makers from across the globe at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, N.Y., on Sept. 29, the award ceremony was hosted b...

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