Brown University
www.brown.edu

The site’s design and use of Flash animation are both innovative and intelligent. While most of the site is devoted to campus life, research and admissions, the site is heavily influenced by the school’s progressive and diverse culture. All of this contributes to the favorable look and feel of the site as well as producing a positive visitor experience.

Butte County Office of Education
web.bcoe.org
The Butte County Office of Education is the intermediary between the state and local school districts. The Butte County Office of Education website focuses on serving the specialized needs of students through special education, independent study, community enrichment programs, and regional occupational programs and administers a variety of state and federally funded programs and services. Notwithstanding the density of information, the site is easy to use and accomplishes its educational mission through clear, relevant and organized content.

Stanford University
www.stanford.org

Known for academic excellence and award-winning research, the site has managed to keep the Ivy League pretense to a minimum. Instead the site focuses on providing its students, faculty and site visitors with helpful, well-organized and highly relevant content. Of special note is the medical center pages, which feature a wide variety of medical libraries and public service resources.

MIT – Children and Inventions
web.mit.edu/invent/invent-main.html

This site is part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and profiles a different inventor each week with a biographical sketch covering his or her accomplishments and their impact upon social causes. It also contains many links to other educational sites that focus on invention and innovation for children, teachers, inventors and the general public.

Robotics: Sensing-Thinking-Acting
www.thetech.org
The Tech Museum of Innovation offers this website for upper elementary/middle school children, providing articles on history, ethics and innovation in the field of robotics. Videos, interactive games and interviews with people in the field make this site especially effective.

Raising a Reader
www.raisingareader.org

The site and the organization are second to none. The group encourages reading among children in poor families. Early childhood development specialists work with kids in classrooms and at home visits, providing bright red bags filled with four books a week. Once children leave the program, they are given their own library cards and introduced to the public library system. These children tested twice as high as the national Head Start norm, and parents report spending 471 percent more time reading with their kids.

Other 2007 Winners Include:
www3.lehigh.edu
www.becominghuman.org
www.southuniversity.edu
www.iknowthat.com
www.starfall.com
www.bestplacestowork.org