MCN'rs, We would like to thank everyone for their submissions to the Spotlight Mobile Travel Scholarship. After much consideration we have selected our awardees:
Eileen Gillette of the University of British Columbia Christian Adame of the Crocker Art Museum It was clear that the recipients spent a good deal of time considering the needs of their visitors and have thought about how to accomplish their goals. Their projects address clear needs within the community or introduce new ideas that help visitors interact directly with the museum; leaving feedback or augmenting exhibits. BPOC and Spotlight Mobile is very excited to award this travel scholarship in hopes they can share their ideas with the community at large and look forward to the seeing how these projects develop. Congratulations to the awardees. Rich Rich Cherry Director Balboa Park Online Collaborative A Project of the Benbough Operating Foundation 2131 Pan American Plz San Diego, CA 92101 B: (619) 819-8331 F: (619) 819-8230 rcherry at balboaparkonline.org<mailto:rcherry at balboaparkonline.org> About The Balboa Park Online Collaborative The Balboa Park Online Collaborative is a partnership of 17 museums, performing arts, and science institutions located in San Diego's Balboa Park, the largest urban cultural park in the United States. Formed in 2009, the Collaborative seeks to improve public access to the diverse institutions and their collections through investments in software and infrastructure, collaborative software and web development, and training opportunities. About Spotlight Mobile Spun out of research on ubiquitous computing at Cornell University in the late nineties, Spotlight Mobile was founded to deliver the highest quality experiences to users on mobile devices. After almost 50 enterprise deployments for some of the world's largest museums and companies, Spotlight Mobile introduces Tours App; the latest generation of our mobile interpretation software suite and the first to be targeted directly at visitors own devices. Built on software used by millions of people every day, Tours App is a completely hosted solution that can be available for no cost to museums. More at SpotlightMobile.com and ToursApp.com
