The KAPi Awards

This year the Kids@Play Summit is hosted the first annual KAPi Awards. Products must have launched during the 2009 year. These awards celebrate excellence in childrens' media. We want the KAPi's to reflect your commitment to building a smarter, safer and wonder-filled world for our kids.

The finalists of the first annual KAPi Awards were selected by a group of publishers and critics at the Dust or Magic Institute and the winners were determined by the popular vote of the attendees at the 2010 Kids@Play Summit.  For more details about the selection and screening process, visit www.ChildrensTech.com/KAPis .

The results of a new prize for excellence in children¹s interactive media were unveiled at the 2010 International CES during the Kids@Play Summit .  The Kids at Play Interactive (KAPi) Awards highlight products that raised the bar for innovation and excellence for children's technology during the past year.  Nominees included applications, video games, CD-ROMs, Internet sites, smart toys, web enabled CDs and eBooks sold commercially in the U.S. and targeting children from birth to age 15.  The winners were drawn from a pool of nearly 500 contenders, using a public nomination process.

		Warren Buckleitner Talks to ABC News about the KAPi Awards The KAPis (Kids at Play Interactive Awards) are given to creators of kids'interactive media for breaking new ground in the use of technology.

The 2010 winners are:

1. Best Children's App ­ --   for tapping the potential of multi-touch for children.
2. Best Interactive Toy ­ -- Tag Reading System from LeapFrog Learning  for using technology to help children decode print.
3. Best Children's Web Site or Service -- ­ Deep Brain Stimulation from Edheads  for empowering children with a powerful, realistic simulation.
4. Best Music and Rhythm Product ­ -- The Beatles Rock Band from Harmonix Music Systems, Inc.  for setting a new standard in the rhythm-game genre, and helping to bridge the generation gap.
5. Best Computer Software ­ -- World of Goo by 2D Boy  and Brighter Minds Media  for playfully introducing powerful scientific building concepts in a puzzle setting.
6. Best Title for the Nintendo DS or DSi -- ­ Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box by Level-5, Inc. and published by Nintendo  for offering children a quality problem solving experience.
7. Best Hardware or Peripheral Device for Kids -- ­ iPod Touch (2009 Edition) from Apple  for giving children access to thousands of affordable multi-touch experiences.
8. Best Informal Learning Experience -- ­ SCRATCH v. 1.4 from the MIT Media Lab  for effective use of public grant money to create a product that anyone can use at no cost.
9. Best Video Game for Kids -- ­ LittleBigPlanet: Game of the Year Edition from Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc.  for playfully transforming a game console into a powerful creativity tool.
10. Best Virtual World -- ­ Club Penguin by New Horizon Interactive for the Disney Interactive Media Group for continuing to innovate with new features and translation features.
11. Digital Pioneer for Kids ­ -- Mitchel Resnick from the Lifelong Learning Group at the MIT Media Lab led the team that created the SCRATCH  programming language, recognized as the individual that has made the largest impact on children¹s technology design.

"The KAPi Awards are designed to help us all take a bird's eye view on the past year, and shine a spotlight on state-of-the art work," said Warren Buckleitner, the Award Coordinator.

"So much of CES has its eye on the future, but the future builds on the great work of the past," said Robin Raskin, founder of the Kids@Play Summit.  "Our KAPi awards salute that sentiment."

Wheels on the Bus from Duck Duck Moose Design		Tag Reading System from LeapFrog Learning
Deep Brain Stimulation from Edheads		The Beatles Rock Band from Harmonix Music Systems, Inc.
World of Goo by 2D Boy  and Brighter Minds Media		Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box by Level-5, Inc.
iPod Touch (2009 Edition) from Apple		SCRATCH v. 1.4 from the MIT Media Lab
­ LittleBigPlanet: Game of the Year Edition from Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc.		­ Club Penguin by New Horizon Interactive
Mitchel Resnick from the Lifelong Learning Group