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At-Bristol’s brain based website rated in Yahoo!’s
top British sites of 2004
7 January 2005
At-Bristol is delighted to announce its mind-boggling
website Your amazing brain
www.youramazingbrain.org.uk has been featured in the Yahoo! Search
Finds of the Year top ten British websites of 2004, winning the
educational category.
The year’s top ten were chosen by a judging panel of independent experts,
selected for their knowledge of the internet. The Yahoo! Search team
narrowed the ten best sites down from a shortlist selected throughout 2004
and announced the winners today. Other categories include entertainment,
travel, community and weird and wonderful.
Supported by the Wellcome Trust, with content and design created by
At-Bristol, the website is an extension of Europe’s largest brain
exhibition, the Your amazing brain section in Explore-At-Bristol.
www.youramazingbrain.org.uk offers a whirlwind tour through all things
brainy – you can take part in real-life experiments, find out about
cutting edge brain research and test yourself with interactive games,
illusions and brain-benders. For teachers, there are also valuable
downloadable resources, classroom activities, career and training advice
and a dedicated psychology teacher’s discussion forum.
Yahoo! Search team are now asking internet users everywhere to vote for
the People’s Find of the Year to find the overall winner out of the ten
categories. The websites can be viewed and voted for at
www.yahoo.co.uk/findoftheyear2004 – so log on and get voting for the
Bristol founded www.youramazingbrain.org.uk
Salim Mitha, Director of Yahoo! Search, UK and Europe comments: ‘Yahoo!
Search aspires to track down the most creative, informative, funniest and
even weirdest sites on the net. The impressive diversity of this year’s
winners certainly illustrates the depth and breadth of this essential life
tool. The judging panel made some tough decisions to shortlist the best of
the web and now it’s the public’s turn.’
John Durant, At-Bristol’s Chief Executive says,’ This is a great accolade
for At-Bristol. We have now won thirteen awards since opening in 2000, and
it’s particularly gratifying to win one for our work in electronic
outreach, an area we regard as especially important.’
For more information about this release, please contact Annabel Iles in
the At-Bristol press office. Tel: 0117 915 7152, fax: 0117 915 7200 or
email annabel.iles@at-bristol.org.uk
Note to Editors:
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At-Bristol, a registered
charity, has won 13 awards since opening in 2000 including the Good
Britain Guide 2001’s ‘Family Attraction of the Year’ and ‘Large Attraction
of the Year’ in the England in Excellence Awards South West. It consists
of three attractions:
Explore-At-Bristol - a hands-on science centre, IMAX® Theatre-At-Bristol
- the largest cinema screen in the west of England and Wildwalk-At-Bristol
- a journey from the origins of life to the ends of the Earth.
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It is a Landmark
Millennium Attraction whose principal partners include the Millennium
Commission (£44.3 million), the South West of England Regional Development
Agency (£17.1 million) and Bristol City Council (£15.7 million).
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The Yahoo! Search
FINDS Awards are annual awards that recognise and celebrate the
diversity of the world wide web.
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The top ten best
websites were chosen by a judging panel of independent experts, selected
for their knowledge of the internet:
Bobby Macaulay, Winner of Yahoo! Search Finds of the Year 2003, Best
Community Website
Tricia Philips, Daily Mirror, Editor of Carol Vorderman's Internet
pages,
Jonathan Goddard, Metro, Technology Editor
Gary Broughton, FHM.com, Acting Editor
Salim Mitha, director of Search, Yahoo! UK & Ireland
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The Wellcome
Trust is an independent research funding charity established in 1936
under the will of the tropical medicine pioneer Sir Henry Wellcome. The
Trust's mission is to foster and promote research with the aim of
improving human and animal health and it currently spends over £400
million per annum.
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