Webchallenge 2008

$15,000 IN WEBCHALLENGE 2008 SCHOLARSHIP MONEY AWARDED AT MAY 16 AWARDS BANQUET

THE WEBER SCHOOL DOMINATES

ATLANTA – May 16, 2008 - The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Foundation held its annual WebChallenge Awards event today at Georgia Tech’s Christopher W. Klaus Advanced Computing Building and announced the award of $15,000 in WebChallenge2008 college scholarship money to four winning teams of high school applications developers. WebChallenge (www.WebChallenge.org) is a yearly web development competition that enables teams of high school students to win scholarship money to attend Georgia colleges and universities.

The following WebChallenge2008 winning teams were awarded college scholarship money:

Best Concept

First Place ($2,000): The Weber School - Josh Mangel and Avi Zolty for “I Recommend It"
Second Place ($1,000): North Gwinnett High School - Alan Barber and Brent O’Neill for “Remember When”

Best Implementation

First Place ($2,000): The Weber School - Josh Mangel and Avi Zolty for “I Recommend It"
Second Place ($1,000): North Gwinnett High School - Alan Barber and Brent O’Neill for “Remember When”

Most Viral

First Place (4-way tie)($2,250 for each team):

The Weber School: Josh Mangel and Avi Zolty for “I Recommend It”
Academy of Computing and Information Technology: Christopher King, Joseph Hughes, Stark Riedesel, and George Ursu for “Prom Helper”
Horizon Christian Academy: Josh Patton, Josh Halliday, Josh Kilcoyne, and Ben Crete for “War Games”
North Gwinnett High School: Alan Barber and Brent O’Neill for “Remember When”

WebChallenge is a yearly program of the TAG Foundation and is organized and managed by Atlanta technology industry volunteers. WebChallenge2008 scholarship awards of $15,000 are funded by global business software provider SAP, Atlanta-based open source software company Appcelerator, and Atlanta technology entrepreneur Wayt King.

WEBCHALLENGE 2008 FINALISTS ANNOUNCED

MEDIA INVITED TO MAY 16 AWARDS BANQUET, KEYNOTED BY CHRIS KLAUS

ATLANTA – May 12, 2008 - The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Foundation announced today that four teams of high school students have been selected as finalists for WebChallenge2008. WebChallenge (www.WebChallenge.org) is a yearly web development competition that enables teams of high school students to win scholarship money to attend Georgia colleges and universities. Winners of WebChallenge2008 and $15,000 in college scholarship money will be announced at a WebChallenge Awards banquet held at the Christopher W. Klaus Advanced Computing Building at Georgia Tech on May 16 from noon to 2:00.

The keynote speaker for the WebChallenge Awards event will be Chris Klaus, who founded Internet Security Systems, Inc. (ISS) in his Georgia Tech dorm room. In 2000, at the age of 26, Klaus donated $15 million to Georgia Tech to fund construction of the building that now bears his name. Klaus is now founder and CEO of Atlanta-based 3D virtual worlds provider Kaneva, Inc.

Four teams of high school students are finalists in this year’s WebChallenge competition, in which teams built and launched interactive applications on the Facebook social network:

North Gwinnett High School: Alan Barber, Brent O’Neill
Horizon Christian Academy: Josh Patton, Josh Halliday, Josh Kilcoyne, Ben Crete
The Weber School: Josh Mangel, Avi Zolty
Academy of Computing and Information Technology (ACIT): Christopher King, Joseph Hughes, Stark Riedesel, George Ursu

In the promotional video for WebChallenge2008 (http://blip.tv/file/721633), Chris Klaus noted that “you see people becoming entrepreneurs at a younger age nowadays” and provided guidance to budding entrepreneurs: “My advice to somebody who has found something that they’re passionate about is to go pursue it with all their might. It’s a great time when you’re young to put all that you have behind a concept.”

SAP Funds WebChallenge with $10K Grant to TAG Foundation

ATLANTA – Jaanuary 18, 2008 - The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Foundation has received a $10,000 grant from SAP (NYSE:SAP). The grant will be used to fund college scholarships for members of winning teams in the WebChallenge2008 competition. WebChallenge (www.WebChallenge.org) is a yearly web development competition that enables teams of Georgia high school students to win college scholarship money. The competition is sponsored by the TAG Foundation. For WebChallenge 2008, which will end in April, each competing student team will build and launch an interactive application on the Facebook social network.

WebChallenge, organized and managed by Atlanta technology industry volunteers, challenges high school students to create and develop web sites. Students are judged on many different aspects of site design and development. Partial college scholarships are granted to the winners of this annual contest.

The TAG Foundation also supports Atlanta's Tech High School, a charter school that is the only school in Atlanta with a core curriculum focused on technology, math, and science.

"We are thrilled to receive this generous grant from SAP," said TAG Foundation Chairman, Kent Antley. "The grant will help the Foundation increase student interest in WebChallenge and encourage students to pursue careers in information technology."

For More Information, contact Grayson Daughters at WaySouth Media, 404-216-0387

WebChallenge is an annual Technology Association of Georgia educational event.