Second Dot Award rewards hot air balloons
Dot Award announces the best website, made by students, in a regional competition where school children make their own website. In doing so, they learn how to make practical use of the internet. The best sites of each participating region or country were selected.
The competition is won by elsglobus.cat, a Catalan website on hot air balloons.
This second edition of the Dot Award received entries from Slovenia, Belgium and the Catalan speaking areas. Surprisingly, and for the first year, each region or country gets an awards. From the best sites an international jury selected elsglobus.cat, a Catalonian website on hot air balloons as winner of the competition. Runner-up is scorepion.be, a website from Belgian students that made a mobile application for sport tournaments. The third place goes to tomos.odklopi.se, a site dedicated to Tomos a well known Slovenian brand of motorcycles.
This second year of the Dot Award was a cooperation of ARNES, the Slovenian domain registry, Fundació puntCAT, Registry for the Catalan domain name, CENTR, the European ccTLD organisation and RVO Society.
Dot Award wants to thank the members of its jury.
The winners
- Elsglobus.cat - Hot air balloons
 In the Catalan city, Igualada, takes every year the European Balloon Festival place. This inspired these 12 to 15 years old students to make a website that shows the people the world of balloons. The jury rewarded this website with the first place because it is a charming and colourful website, the information is conveniently arranged and because of the creative use of resources.
www.elsglobus.cat
- Scorepion.be - Mobile application for sport tournament
 5 last graders of the technical university HOWEST (Belgium) conquered the second prize. They made a mobile application to make golf tournaments easier to manage and cover.
Their website surprised the jury with their professional appearance, the effective use of multimedia and user friendliness.
www.scorepion.be
- Odklopi.se/tomos/ - Tomos motorcycles
Rok and Tadej are attending high school in Ptuj, a small town in Slovenia. The 2 students combined their interests in computers and motorcycles by making a website on Tomos motorcycles.
They earned the third award due to the good looking design, well-structured information, good translations and the completeness of their website.
odklopi.se/tomos/
The jury decided to give a special mention to:
Escribescatalans.cat
The 16 to 18 years old students of the Institut de Palamós (Costa Brava, Catalonia) made a website with news and information related to Catalan Literature.
This website received a special mention for the interesting and well-structured content.
escribescatalans.cat
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