Tech Nite 10 - Details

Tech Nite 2010 is our annual gathering highlighting Valley technology achievement and innovation in 7 categories. On March 31, 2010 more than 250 attendees gathered to recognize and highlight the successes of technology firms, organizations and programs in the region and the entrepreneurs and innovators behind those successes. Scroll down for the list of 28 competitors and the 7 winners (in red). Congratulations!

Read the nomination narratives of the 2010 Tech Nite competitors (pdf)

Related links and files:

• Sponsorship Opportunities 2010 (pdf)  (various levels from $300 - $2,000)

The 2010 nominees & winners are:

High Tech Entrepreneur Award

Sponsored by JMU's College of Business and
JMU's College of Integrated Science and Technology

This award honors an individual who has demonstrated outstanding entrepreneurial success in the development of a technology-based, commercial enterprise. The individual shall have been instrumental in the key technology development, commercialization, and subsequent demonstration of marketing success of related products and services

• Eric Korn, American Firearms Training Corp.
• Alex Phillips, HighSpeedLink.net
• David Williamson, Winchester Wireless & Custom Computers
• Pennie Zinn Garber, Lineage Architects

High Tech Company Award

Sponsored by Wharton Aldhizer & Weaver PLC

This award recognizes outstanding commercial growth and achievement by an established company that produces and markets predominantly high tech products or services.

• Carpathia Hosting, Inc.
• DIGICO Shoot | Post | Design
• Highland Telephone Cooperative
• MLC Advertising, Inc.
• nTelos
• R.B. Boan, Inc., Heating & Cooling
• Serco (PGPubs Classification Services)
• Shenandoah Valley Electric Coop.
  

High Tech Leadership Award

Sponsored by LeClairRyan

This award honors an individual in a high tech organization whose personal leadership and efforts in the community have resulted in outstanding benefits to the region, or an individual outside a high tech organization whose personal leadership and example have resulted in outstanding, positive technology-related activity in the region. The individual shall be a resident of the Shenandoah Valley Region.

• Chaz Evans-Haywood, Harrisonburg City/Rockingham County
• Michael J. Rozmus, Rockingham Memorial Hospital
• Dave Segars, Segars Engineering

Innovation In Higher Education Award

Sponsored by nTelos

This award honors the innovative use and/or development of technology within the region's higher educational system or other technology-training program.

• Carey Cole, JMU College of Business
• Dr. Bryon L. Grigsby, Shenandoah University 
• Dr. Richard R. Teaff, Dabney S. Lancaster Community College

Innovation In K - 12 Education Award

Sponsored by Verizon

This award honors the innovative use and/or development of technology within the region's K - 12 educational system or other technology-training program.

• Leonard Klein, Shenandoah Valley Governor's School
• Gary Lane, Highland County Public Schools
• Tara Meadows & Tracy Shifflett, Page County Public Schools
• Ben Ham, Stuarts Draft HS Manufacturing Engineering Technology Program
• TECHfacturing Partnership, JMU/BRCC

Innovative Technology Application Award

Sponsored by the Center for Innovative Technology

This award honors the innovative use of technology in more traditional Shenandoah Valley based industries such as agriculture and manufacturing.

• Dr. Christopher Bachmann, JMU Alternative Fuel Vehicle Lab
• Rockingham Memorial Hospital
• Klann Plastics

National Defense/Homeland Security Award

Sponsored by JMU's Institute for Infrastructure and Information Assurance

This award honors the outstanding technical contributions to homeland security or national defense.

• Ron Raab, JMU/ISAT; Kevin Richards, VA State Police; Scott Lewis, JMU College of Science & Mathematics
• Dr. Jason W. Martin, JMU College of Science & Mathematics