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London, United Kingdom, 2014/04/04 - The net Awards announces the shortlist for its 2014 ceremony honouring the best designers, developers, entrepreneurs and agencies that are shaping the future of web design and development - ThenetAwards.com / Futureplc.com. LSE: FUTR
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• Celebrating the best in global web design and development;
• Powered by net magazine the world’s best-selling magazine for web designers and developers;
• Friday 9 May, Grand Connaught Rooms, London
Powered by net magazine, the world’s best-selling magazine for web designers and developers, the shortlist was compiled purely through public nominations and votes. The winners will now be decided by an esteemed panel of 100 industry experts and announced at an exclusive ceremony at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London on Friday 9 May.
The Awards are spread over 22 fiercely-contested categories and divided into five sections Team Awards, Individual Awards, Community Awards, Project Awards and Technology Awards. With nominations from all over the world, the final net Awards shortlist sees almost half of the nominees based in the UK underlining Britain’s thriving technology scene.
This year sees the addition of a host of new categories including the Emerging Talent Award, which recognises the tech stars of the future. Within this category, all the nominees are aged between just 15 and 18 years old. The category includes 15-year-old Ross Penman from Scotland who helped build TruMPs, an ‘edu-tainment’ Top Trumps style game which lets users compare MPs against each other, and 18-year-old Rochester Institute of Technology student, Jennie Lamere, who was Twitter’s youngest-ever intern and who has already won the grand prize at Boston’s TVNext Hack for inventing Twivo, an app that blocks TV show spoilers from peoples Twitter feed.
The net Awards have always been about celebrating new talent, and last year’s winners included Clare Sutcliffe, Co-Founder and CEO of Code Club, who received Entrepreneur of the Year. With 2014 dubbed the Year of Code, Clare was ahead of the trend with her nationwide network of free volunteer-led after-school coding clubs for children aged between 9 and 11 years old. Code Club started out in September 2012 with just 120 schools participating but has since seen rapid growth, with 2,168 clubs now in the UK. As of December last year, Code Club was teaching 23,000 children how to code, 40% of whom were girls.
Oliver Lindberg, Editor of net, says: “I’m really impressed with the quality and diversity of the entries this year. The fact that almost half of the shortlisted nominees are based in the UK shows how strong the industry is over here. However, I’m especially excited about the Emerging Talent candidates with all nominations between 15 and 18 years old. It’s amazing to see the stuff they do at such a young age and I can’t wait to see who the judges will choose.”
About net
net is the world’s best-selling magazine for web designers and developers. Every issue boasts pages of tutorials covering topics such as CSS, PHP, Flash, JavaScript, HTML5 and web graphics written by many of the world’s most respected web designers and creative design agencies. Interviews, features and pro tips also offer advice on SEO, social media marketing, web hosting, the cloud, mobile development and apps, making it the essential guide for practical web design.
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