Comm Tech Lab projects and products have won many awards and have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Here is a partial list of awards and recognitions. More recent projects are listed first.

Michigan 4H Garden Spatial Kids' Tour

-- featured exhibit, Apple Learning Interchange, August, 2002
-- exhibited at CHI 2002 as part of the Professional Interactive Portfolios panel
-- Golden Web Award, International Association of Webmasters and Designers, November, 2001
-- Surfers’ Choice Award, Surfers Choice Awards, November 2001
-- Cool Site of the Day, Cool Site of the Day, November, 2001
-- Webmaster Award, The Webmaster Awards, December, 2001
-- Web Author’s Choice Award, Pinnacle-Club Web Author's Choice Award, December, 2001
-- Busy Educator Award, The Busy Educator’s Guide to the World Wide Web, December, 2001
-- Exploratorium Ten Cool Sites, the Exploratorium, December, 2001
-- The Teacher’s Corner Excellence for Education Web Sites, The Teacher’s Corner, December, 2001
-- NEM5 Web Magic Bronze Award, NEM5, December, 2001
-- Maestro Awards Bronze, Maestro Awards, December, 2001
-- EduNET Choice Award, Edunetconnect, January, 2002

Completing A Life

-- presented at EdMedia 2002 in Denver
-- exhibited at CHI 2002 in Minneapolis as part of the Professional Interactive Portfolios panel

High School Curriculum On The Death Penalty

-- Surfer's Choice award
-- Cool Site of the Day award
-- Web Author's Choice award
-- selected as a member of the GEM Gateway Consortium of Internet-based educational materials, received a
-- 5 star rating from Pacific Bell's Blue Web'n Library of Educational Resources, as well as a
-- Lightspan StudyWeb award, and
-- Awesome Library Editor's Choice recognition as being among the top 5% of educational sites on the web
-- Busy Educator Award
-- selected by the American Bar Association Division for Public Education to use as the core curriculum for their 2001 annual National Online Summit for 50 participating high schools.

Microbe Zoo

-- SCILINKS, National Science Teachers Association, November, 2001 and May, 2002
-- Reviewed in the Journal of Biological Education, March 2002
-- Exploratorium's Ten Cool Sites Award for educational excellence for May, 2002
-- added to the MERLOT distinguished, high-quality learning materials collection, February, 2002
-- selected for schoolsnet web guide (UK), March, 2001
-- BlueWebn Award, 1999
-- rated "Spectacular!" and awarded 5 stars in a 3/17/99 syndicated newspaper column "Surfing the Net with Kids."
-- listed on BBC Best of Science on the Web, 1999
-- exhibited at SIGGRAPH, 1995
-- Health Explorer Site of the Week, 1998
-- five star rating by NetGuide, 1998
-- New Media Invision Multimedia Award Finalist, 1996

ASL Browser And Personal Communicator

-- "An outstanding site in its subject area." Web Feet, Summer, 2002
-- selected for MERLOT database as a distinguished, high-quality source of learning material, November, 2000 and June, 2002
-- September 2001 Site of the Day at Techlearning.com’s Site of the Day
-- licensed by the CIA for use on their internal network, 2002
-- September 2001 Site of the Day at Techlearning.com
-- featured on Spanish and World Languages/Cultures website, March 2001
-- rated "Wonderful!" and awarded 4 stars in the 3/21/2001 syndicated newspaper column "Surfing the Net with Kids."
-- four stars on "Surfing the Net with Kids” national column, March, 2001
-- USA Today "Best Bets on the Web" selection, March 2000
-- New on the Net selection of the month, Electronic School magazine, 1999
-- included in the Scout Report for Social Sciences, 1999
-- Discover Magazine's Software Innovation of the Year Award, 1995.

Breast Cancer Lighthouse

-- MedIndex Seal of Approval, 1999
-- Macromedia People's Choice Awards Finalist, 1995
-- exhibited at SIGGRAPH, 1995.

Click-On MSU

-- exhibited at SIGGRAPH, 1992

Mission To Mars!

-- exhibited at CyberArts, 1991