For immediate release: June 28, 2010

Contact: Kristen Read, Project WET Foundation, 406-585-4185

Educational publishing industry leader singles out water education nonprofit as a finalist for four awards at a recent ceremony in Washington, D.C.

Bozeman, Mont., June 28, 2010—Continuing its tradition as an award-winning publisher of water education materials, Project WET recently received finalist honors at the Association for Educational Publishers (AEP) annual awards ceremony. In addition to having two of its Kids in Discovery series booklets and its Discover Floods: Educators’ Guide named as 2010 Finalists for prestigious AEP Distinguished Achievement Awards, Project WET was an AEP Beacon Award Finalist for excellence in educational marketing for its website and store.

“Especially considering the caliber of our competition, we are thrilled to add these honors to our organization’s list of achievements,” Project WET Foundation President and CEO Dennis Nelson said.

Other nominees for the awards included such leading educational publishers for children as National Geographic, Scholastic, Inc. and Weekly Reader.
Recognized by parents and teachers as a mark of excellence, AEP has one of the nation’s most distinguished awards programs for educational products. For more than four decades, AEP has singled out exceptional resources for teaching and learning and judged entries against the highest standards for both quality and content. To be named a finalist is recognition of outstanding achievement and leadership in the field.

As 2010 award finalists, reprints of Project WET’s booklets “Discover the Hudson River” and “Discover the Nile” will carry the 2010 Finalist AEP Distinguished Achievement Award logo on their covers. They join the list of 13 Project WET publications that have earned this honor.
With three new KIDs booklets scheduled for 2010, Project WET will have even more entries for the AEP awards next year. Following the September releases of “Discover the Waters of Tennessee” and “Discover the Waters of Nebraska,” the organization will also be releasing “California Coastal Ecosystems” in December. For more information, visit the Project WET web site, www.projectwet.org.