On December 8, the media firm technical.ly announced , in the categories Invention of the Year, Tech Community Leader of the Year, CTO of the Year, Tech Company of the Year, and Culture Builder of the Year. 91福利导航鈥檚 AT&T 5G-connected football helmet won Invention of the Year. 

The technical.ly awards program began in October, when the company solicited nominations. They narrowed down the field to five nominees for each category, then asked readers to vote in late November. Over 8,000 votes were cast, about one-quarter of which were from the Washington area.  

Winners in the other categories were Kiante Bush, Tech Community Leader of the Year; Viveca Pavon-Harr, CTO of the Year; Adlumin, Tech Company of the Year; and Tremain Davis, Culture Builder of the Year. 

Former technical.ly writer Michaela Althouse wrote an about the helmet in late October. Althouse also wrote about the that debuted at the Visual-Centric Teaching and Learning Symposium in April.聽

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