Awards and Recognitions

Awards and Recognitions

Several members of the Aggie HorticultureTeam received the Director's Award for Innovative Application of Information Technology in Extension Education at the 2001 Texas Cooperative Extension meeting.

The Aggie Horticulture-PLANTanswers Team received the 1998 Texas Agricultural Extension Service Superior Service Award and Vice Chancellor's Award in Excellence in the team category.

Aggie Horticulture received the ASHS Extension Division Educational Materials Award, Consumer Landscape Management Category at the ASHS annual meeting held recently in Salt Lake City.

The School Gardens section of kinderGARDEN was awarded a Four Star rating by Schoolzone's panel of over 400 expert teachers. This award was in recognition of the fact that it is a very good educational site: useful for teaching and learning and easy to navigate.

The Composting for Kids slide set was rated "Wonderful!" and awarded 4 stars on 5/24/2000 by the nationally syndicated newspaper column "Surfing the Net with Kids."

Wildflowers in bloom and the School Garden resources section of Nutrition in the Garden received the Connected Teacher Hot Five Award for the week of March 23, 2000.

The kinderGARDEN section of Aggie Horticulture was named as one of the top 100 educational Web sites for 1999 by The Education Source newsletter.

Wildflowers in bloom, Composting Resources, and Earth-Kind^sm Gardening were selected as featured sites in StudyWeb as one of the best educational resources on the web.

kinderGARDEN was selected as TecherNet's "Site of the Week" for the week of March 8, 1999.

Aggie Horticulture was chosen as an "Ask Jeeves Silver Platter Site in recognition of the fact that we answer so many questions.

The Plant Tissue Culture Information Exchange site was chosen as HMS Beagle's "Web Pick of the Day" for February 14th, 1999.

Horticulture Magazine reviewed the Wildflowers in bloom section of Aggie Horticulture and found it worthy of the Horticulture Online Seal of Approval.

Designated one of the Texas Top 5 Gardening Sites by Suite101.com

Education World "A" Rating for the kinderGARDEN site.

PacBell BlueWeb'n Top Site of the Week for the School Gardens section of kinderGARDEN.

Suite 101 Southern Gardening Top 5 Site

Editor's Pick Old Farmer's Almanac Editor's Pick for PLANTanswers

'Best of the Net' Award from The Mining Company for the PLANTanswers section.

Orchid Award for Page Excellence

BONUS.COM Selects kinderGARDEN for Editor's Choice Award

Virtual Garden Pick of the Crop

Progressive Farmer Best of the Internet

Magellan 3 Star Rating for kinderGARDEN

Times Pick by the Los Angeles Times, PLANTanswers Garlic Information Page

	Several members of the Aggie HorticultureTeam received the Director's Award for Innovative Application of Information Technology in Extension Education at the 2001 Texas Cooperative Extension meeting.
	The Aggie Horticulture-PLANTanswers Team received the 1998 Texas Agricultural Extension Service Superior Service Award and Vice Chancellor's Award in Excellence in the team category.
	Aggie Horticulture received the ASHS Extension Division Educational Materials Award, Consumer Landscape Management Category at the ASHS annual meeting held recently in Salt Lake City.
	The School Gardens section of kinderGARDEN was awarded a Four Star rating by Schoolzone's panel of over 400 expert teachers. This award was in recognition of the fact that it is a very good educational site: useful for teaching and learning and easy to navigate.
	The Composting for Kids slide set was rated "Wonderful!" and awarded 4 stars on 5/24/2000 by the nationally syndicated newspaper column "Surfing the Net with Kids."
	Wildflowers in bloom and the School Garden resources section of Nutrition in the Garden received the Connected Teacher Hot Five Award for the week of March 23, 2000.
	The kinderGARDEN section of Aggie Horticulture was named as one of the top 100 educational Web sites for 1999 by The Education Source newsletter.
	Wildflowers in bloom, Composting Resources, and Earth-Kind^sm Gardening were selected as featured sites in StudyWeb as one of the best educational resources on the web.
	kinderGARDEN was selected as TecherNet's "Site of the Week" for the week of March 8, 1999.
	Aggie Horticulture was chosen as an "Ask Jeeves Silver Platter Site in recognition of the fact that we answer so many questions.
	The Plant Tissue Culture Information Exchange site was chosen as HMS Beagle's "Web Pick of the Day" for February 14th, 1999.
	Horticulture Magazine reviewed the Wildflowers in bloom section of Aggie Horticulture and found it worthy of the Horticulture Online Seal of Approval.
	Designated one of the Texas Top 5 Gardening Sites by Suite101.com
	Education World "A" Rating for the kinderGARDEN site.
	PacBell BlueWeb'n Top Site of the Week for the School Gardens section of kinderGARDEN.
	Suite 101 Southern Gardening Top 5 Site
Editor's Pick	Old Farmer's Almanac Editor's Pick for PLANTanswers
	'Best of the Net' Award from The Mining Company for the PLANTanswers section.
	Orchid Award for Page Excellence
	BONUS.COM Selects kinderGARDEN for Editor's Choice Award
	Virtual Garden Pick of the Crop
	Progressive Farmer Best of the Internet
	Magellan 3 Star Rating for kinderGARDEN
	Times Pick by the Los Angeles Times, PLANTanswers Garlic Information Page