GALA Award 2014 Nominees Announced by Special Events Magazine

The granddaddy of awards honors great special events from around the world.

 The Special Events Advisory Board announced the nominees for this year's GALA Awards, the most prestigious award in the special events industry. The awards, which honor work from throughout the world, have been handed out since 1986. The GALA Awards will be presented at a black-tie event at The Special Event 2014 in Nashville, TN. Revelation—The Road to the 2014 GALA Awards was the theme for 2014. The GALA Awards are dedicated to those that dared to dream, who seized hold of their revelation and let the idea bloom all the way to success.

Special Events Magazine cover with GALA Award by MK Shannon Awards

The editor for The Special Events Magazine contacted MK Shannon in 1999 to create the GALA Award for The Special Events for their annual conference. Both the program director and magazine editor worked with MK to select the design. The award was designed to represent individuals within the membership who strive to perform and create at the highest level. These individuals compete yearly to earn the GALA Award for their particular category. The sculpture for the award has four figures to represent teamwork. No extraordinary event or project can be completed by one individual, it takes people working together. A spiral base leads into the four figures causing them to rise upward forming a globe-like shape that ends with the arms of the figures holding a star. The star represents the highest level of achievement.

GALA Award by MK Shannon Awards & Rewards

Thirty five different categories were awarded this year at the GALA Awards in Nashville.

Seminole Casino Coconut Creek Uses Awards by MK Shannon

Seminole Casino Coconut Creek located in South Florida needed awards for several different events and wanted custom designed pieces created from their own artwork. 2D images were provided and MK Shannon created the 3D models from the images and provided awards that were totally unique to the casino industry. The turn around time was about four weeks once the model was approved.

Seminole Casino Coconut Creek located in South Florida needed awards for several different events and wanted custom designed pieces created from their own artwork. 2D images were provided and MK Shannon created the 3D models from the images and provided awards that were totally unique to the casino industry. The turn around time was about four weeks once the model was approved.

Blues, Brews and BBQ Event Awards

The pieces shown here were for three separate events. One is the Blues, Brews and BBQ. The other was Player of the Year for Black Jack. We designed three different sizes of awards for the Blues, Brews and BBQ so that there would be a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place award.

Black Jack Event Awards

 The six Black Jack awards that were presented at the event were the Player of the Year Award, Male Player of the Year Award, Female Player of the Year Award, Breakout Player of the Year Award, Player Development Choice Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award.

 

Altera Corporation Worldwide Presents Awards by MK Shannon

The “Top Performer Awards” are presented at an annual awards dinner to recognize individuals who have made top sales numbers for the year and also for those who exemplify Altera Corporation’s values of Integrity, Teamwork, Winning Mindset, Accountability and Innovation. Awards are presented in Japan, France, Germany and the United States. MK Shannon has provided the awards for Altera for the last six years. The management team had contacted MK Shannon Awards and Rewards searching for a unique award that would represent the corporate sales goals and the Altera values. MK presented several awards to choose from that she felt were appropriate for the management team's goals. They selected one in her inventory of awards, and the rest is “history”. 

Stellar Award

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Altera Corporation is the leader in innovative custom logic solutions, and has been ever since inventing the world's first reprogrammable logic device in 1984.

Today, over 2,600 employees in 19 countries are providing even more ingenious custom logic solutions—addressing a range of concerns, from power consumption to performance to cost—for customers in a wide variety of industries, including automotive, broadcast, computer and storage, consumer, industrial, medical, military, test and measurement, wireless, and wireline.

In addition to devices, Altera's comprehensive solutions portfolio contains fully integrated software development tools, versatile embedded processors, optimized intellectual property cores, reference design examples, and a variety of development kits.

We are delighted to be their choice in “Top Performer Awards”!

MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Uses MK Shannon Awards to Honor Outstanding Physicians

In 2008 International Conference Management contacted MK Shannon Awards & Rewards to select awards suitable for use by the MedStar Program at Georgetown University. The University MedStar Program has held conferences each year to honor outstanding work by physicians in various fields of medical study by presenting them awards designed by MK Shannon.

 

Most recently the MedStar program at Georgetown University has honored the doctors shown in the photos here. 

2013 MedStar Georgetown Achievement Award in Abdominal Wall Reconstruction honoree Adrian E. Park, MD (center) with conference co-chairmen Parag Bhanot, MD (left) and Maurice Y. Nahabedian, MD (right). This award was designed by MK Shannon and is entitled “Double Helix”. The award is plated in sterling silver and 14kt gold and mounted on black marble.

MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Diabetic Limb Salvage conference co-chairmen, Christopher E. Attinger, MD (left) and John S. Steinberg, DPM, (right) present the 2013 MedStar Georgetown Distinguished Achievement Award “Diversity” by MK Shannon to George Andros, MD. The award is designed by MK Shannon and has three different human figures each plated in pewter, silver or gold

and is mounted on black marble.

The 2013 Diabetic Foot Global Conference honored two pioneers in amputation prevention with the Edward James Olmos Award for Advocacy in Amputation Prevention. Shown here with honoree, Lawrence B. Harkless is Edward James Olmos (right). This award by MK Shannon is entitled “Soar Above” and is plated in 14kt gold and mounted on black marble.

MedStar Georgetown University Hospital's many attributes include an impressive array of centers of excellence—in cancer, gastroenterology, neurosciences, and transplants. We, at MK Shannon Awards and Rewards, are proud to provide awards to honor and recognize outstanding individuals and the work they are doing to meet the healthcare needs of their communities.