Awards given the SCI Web Site

Click on the logos to go to the awarding web sites.

	SpaceViews says, "The SpaceViews Space Sites of the Week list recognizes excellence among space-related Web sites. This a prime resource for people looking for quality space Web sites. There are only 1-3 selected each week. Selected winners will also be announced in the 'CyberSpace' section of SpaceViews Update. Congratulations on a job well done!" Selected May 18, 1998.
	SCI is pleased to be the recipient of the EduNet Choice Award in 1998 "for providing and maintaining valuable educational content."
	MultiReviews.com gave SCI this nice graphic on July 3, 1998.
	Space Careers selected SCI as their site of the week early in July, 1998
	Selected as a link from 4 Kids.org May, 1998
	Market-tek says, "This award is given out by Market-Tek, at their sole discretion. In reviewing sites for our award, we look at content, graphics, the purpose of the page, and the experience of the page writer."
	ICA says, "As Commissioner of The Internet Collectibles Awards (ICA), I want to congratulate your website on being selected as an ICA - Site of the Year for the category of diecast."
	The WetWired Webcenter says the SCI site "has gone through some serious testing here at the webcenter and your site has passed with honors."
	The GraphX Kingdom awards SCI its Select Site award for "Content, Content, Content," as well as "Loading Time, Origniality, and Graphics."
	SCI is being reviewed by Eye Candy.
	The SCI site is rated for all ages by SafeSurf.com.
	SCI may be found at MallPark.com

In addition to formal awards...

Comments from customers are just as satisfying as formal awards, if not more so. These were received before the SCI Bulletin Board was in operation, so the authors' names have not been not included.

"(The Voyager model) is much more detailed and accurate than I expected for a card model. The laser enables fantastic details to be replicated." (From a postcard received in 1987)
"Thanks for producing these models. I hope you continue to do so."
"In a word: WOW!"
"You have a wonderful concept and thoughtful product and a very fine presentation of it. Your site is thoroughly enjoyable!"
"Thank you for providing me with one of the best hours I've spent on the web."
"There is no better way to learn the details & makeup of a spacecraft like Voyager than to put a model together. I congratulate you on a job well done."

Thanks, everyone.
Dave

You'll find links to NASA centers in these web pages. This doesn't imply that NASA (or anybody else in the U.S. government) endorses SCI's products. They don't do that. However, The Planetary Society does endorse them, and the Keck Observatory has approved SCI's Keck Telescope model design!

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