Congratulations to Ben Allen, CEO of Acton Publishing, for being nominated for the 2009 Austin Business Journal Tech Innovator Awards!  The Tech Innovator Awards celebrate the top tech innovators in Central Texas and their accomplishments.
Ben is also a 2007 alumnus and current practitioner at Acton. Acton Publishing creates the curriculum for Acton and online courses and the online sim games.
Winners will be [...]

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The Horizon Interactive Awards, a leading interactive media awards competition, recently announced its 2009 award winners.  Both sim games that the Acton Foundation entered, Robo-Rush! and Galactic Zappers, won bronze awards in the “best video game” category.
“The fact that our learning games are wining awards in video game and entertainment categories is extremely encouraging.  It [...]

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The pricing simulation game that Acton built in late 2008 has been recognized with a recent award.  The 15th Annual Communicator Awards recognized Price Point in their Interactive Gaming category.
The Communicator Awards honors creative excellence for communications professionals.  We received the Award of Distinction, which we are quite happy to receive.
For more on the awards, [...]

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