Date: June 26, 2009
Steljes Head of Education presents prestigious award to BSF winners
26th June 2009: Steljes, the innovative technology distributor, was the proud sponsor of the Most Inspiring Secondary School Design category at the British Council for School Environments 2009.
The British Council for School Environments celebrated the 2009 awards for best practice in the design and construction of schools at a glittering evening of celebration for 500 industry professionals recognising the UK's world class school design and construction industry on June 24th at the Emirates Stadium.
This year the quality of submissions was extremely high with 170 entries across the 13 categories. In particular the ‘Inspiring Design for Schools’ category delivered a range of fantastic projects and 6 awards were made to recognise the very best examples of school design in the UK.
Rachel Jones, Head of Education at Steljes, presented the prestigious award for the most inspiring secondary school design. This was one of the most fiercely fought categories, resulting in a joint award to Penoyre & Prasad for Merchants' Academy, Bristol and to Knowsley MBC for Christ the King Learning Centre. At the awards, Jones commented “The Steljes team is proud to work with top industry partners in creating outstanding schools for the future. Our experience in BSF and academies alike is that a clear focus on learning outcomes allied with a strong partnership sharing our specialist knowledge enables industry to provide superb learning spaces for the whole community.” For more details of the awards see http://www.bcse.uk.net
Steljes is a leading supplier of interactive technologies within the education sector, most notably through its exclusive relationship with SMART Technologies. Its BSF team has worked on 14 of the 17 programs in BSF wave one to inform and support technology adoption. To find out more see http://www.steljes.co.uk/capital-programmes/bsf
Notes for Editors
About Steljes
Steljes Limited is a technology pioneering organisation that sources products from around the world, working with manufacturers to customise and bring their solutions to the UK market through its specialised channel network. The company’s innovative solutions enable people to interact and communicate more effectively while working and learning.
The company has been sourcing products from around the world for over 20 years, introducing LCD panels, projectors, plasma displays and interactive whiteboards to the UK market. The company has consistently been the UK's number one supplier of interactive whiteboards and recently increased its UK market segment share from 54.7% in 2006 to 62.3% in Q1 2009 (source: Futuresouce Consulting).
Steljes Limited is a privately owned company and the exclusive representative of SMART Technologies, Turning Technologies and AVerMedia in the UK.
