Award Winners
2022: Adam Garry
2021: Mary Schlegelmilch
2020: Lillian Kellogg
2019: Gavin Lee
2018: Gus Schmedlen
2017: Sean McDonough
2016: John Harrington
2015: Gary Mainor
2014: Vicki Bigham
2013: Michael Flood
2012: Elizabeth Crawford
2011: Robert Moore
2010: Anne Wujcik
2009: Nick Mirisis
2008: Christopher Brown
2007: Farimah Schuerman
2006: Lillian Kellogg
2005: Linda Winter
2004: David Byer
2003: Steve Kohn
2002: Jennifer House
2001: Kathy Hurley
2000: Jeanne Hayes
CoSN works with many companies and individuals in the private sector who are making important contributions to education technology. Each year we recognize one person who has had an outstanding impact on the edtech community outside of the confines of his or her job.
Eligibility
All CoSN members who work in the private sector are eligible. Past winners have included leaders from education and technology companies and beyond. The winner is selected each year by CoSN leadership and announced at the CoSN Annual Conference in April. There is no nomination process for this award. Honoring an individual from the private sector for outstanding service to the education technology community and CoSN.
2022 Award Winner: Hurley Private Sector Champion Award
Adam Garry, Senior Director of Education Strategy, Dell Technologies
The Hurley Private Sector Champion honor, named after edtech leader Kathy Hurley, annually recognizes one person who has had an outstanding impact on the education technology community outside of the confines of his or her job. The 2022 Hurley Private Sector Champion Award is going to a corporate leader who has provided creativity and passion to create collaborative opportunities with CoSN that advance its mission: Adam Garry, Senior Director of Education Strategy, Dell Technologies.
Adam is a long-time friend of CoSN who has championed our work on addressing the challenge of student home connectivity and closing the homework gap. He has provided creativity and passion to create collaborative opportunities with CoSN that advance our mission. With his leadership, we have been able to advance our breakthrough work on remote learning with a new phase of research. He also has been innovative in helping CoSN build online professional development courses on issues like our new project management course and a forthcoming one on lessons from our Peer Reviews. CoSN is particularly excited about a new cybersecurity game that he has enabled to help district teams understand the cybersecurity risks facing K-12.
