The UF/IFAS Center for Public Issues Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources (PIE Center) was recently recognized by the Association for Communication Excellence (ACE) for producing high quality outreach and educational materials.
Each year, ACE facilitates the Critique and Awards (C&A) program, which allows members to receive professional feedback on their work. The PIE Center received 15 C&A awards at the 2024 ACE conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Learn more about the PIE Center’s award-winning entries below.
Outstanding Professional Skill Award
From Waves to Wallets: The Socioeconomic Impacts of Red Tide Events in Florida
Category: Crisis and Issues Management, Issue Management
Team Members: Sydney Honeycutt, Angie Lindsey, Sandra Anderson, Ricky Telg, Christa Court, Alena Poulin
Insight Summit Course
Category: Information Technology, Education
Team Members: Lauri Baker, Cheryl Boyer, Hikaru Peterson, Aly Morrison, Michaela Kandzer, Phillip Stokes, Karlibeth Leitheiser, Audrey King
Gold Awards
From Waves to Wallets: The Socioeconomic Impacts of Red Tide Events in Florida
Category: Crisis and Issues Management, Issue Management
Team Members: Sydney Honeycutt, Angie Lindsey, Sandra Anderson, Ricky Telg, Christa Court, Alena Poulin
About: The “From Waves to Wallets” toolkit provides comprehensive multimedia resources to communicate the socioeconomic impacts of red tide events, particularly the 2017-2019 event in Florida, covering topics such as tourism, property values, fishing, community vulnerability, and stakeholder perceptions, and includes social media graphics, a social media plan, issue guides, and policy and research guidance documents.
Insight Summit Course
Category: Information Technology, Education
Team Members: Lauri Baker, Cheryl Boyer, Hikaru Peterson, Aly Morrison, Michaela Kandzer, Phillip Stokes, Karlibeth Leitheiser, Audrey King
About: Insight Summit is an online new-media marketing course where participants learn how to collect analytics and which measurements matter, create compelling and engaging visual content to share online, increase engagement with their audience and potential customers, and more.
Offshore Aquaculture in Florida Toolkit
Category: Graphic Design, Interactive Multimedia/Web Graphics
Team Members: Aly Morrison, Ricky Telg, Angie Lindsey
About: The “From Waves to Wallets” toolkit provides comprehensive resources to communicate the socioeconomic impacts of red tide events, particularly the 2017-2019 event in Florida, covering topics such as tourism, property values, fishing, community vulnerability, and stakeholder perceptions, and includes social media graphics, a social media plan, issue guides, and policy and research guidance documents.
The Slice Cover Art (Spring 2023)
Category: Graphic Design, Cover
Team Members: Sydney Honeycutt, Rachel Stormant
About: In the Spring 2023 edition of The Slice, learn about the PIE Center’s role in a project focused on future management of the Suwannee River Basin. Read updates from partner programs and meet three undergraduate student workers: Kaelyn Nelson, Katie Sadler and Rachel Stormant.
4 Ways to Leverage AI Marketing for Your Agribusiness Blogpost
Category: Writing, Writing for the Web
Team Members: Aly Morrison, Michaela Kandzer, Lauri Baker, Cheryl Boyer, Hikaru Peterson, Jean Bricket
About: This blogpost was written for CREE’s audience to highlight ways that agribusinesses could use AI to effectively market their business or products.
Silver Awards
Florida EDEN Hurricane Idalia Communication
Category: Crisis and Issues Management, Crisis Communication
Team Members: Sydney Honeycutt, Rachel Stormant, Michaela Kandzer, Kaelyn Nelson, Shelby Thomas, Ricky Telg, Aly Morrison
Science by the Slice Podcast
Category: Electronic Media, Video, & Audio, Audio News, Programs, Podcasts and Spots
Team Members: Phillip Stokes, Michaela Kandzer, Raychel Raybon, Sydney Honeycutt, Karlibeth Leitheiser, Ricky Telg, Valentina Castano
2023 ACE Conference Logo
Category: Graphic Design, Logo
Team Members: Sydney Honeycutt, Ricky Telg, 2023 ACE Conference Planning Committee, Celtic Chicago
Reimagining Resilient Agri-food Supply Chains Course
Category: Information Technology, Instructional Design for an Online Course
Team Members: Lauri Baker, Cheryl Boyer, Hikaru Peterson, Aly Morrison, Michaela Kandzer, Phillip Stokes, Karlibeth Leitheiser
Insight Summit Promotion
Category: Marketing 1, Marketing Communications Campaign with Budget Under $1,000
Team Members: Aly Morrison, Michaela Kandzer, Lauri Baker, Cheryl Boyer, Hikaru Peterson, Phillip Stokes
Bronze Awards
Offshore Aquaculture Animated Video
Category: Electronic Media, Video, & Audio 3, Motion Graphics/Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality/Animation
Team Members: Aly Morrison, Ricky Telg, Angie Lindsey
Telling the PIE Center’s Story in Florida Grower
Category: Marketing, Marketing Communications Campaign with Budget Under $1,000
Team Members: Ashley McLeod-Morin, Sydney Honeycutt, Ricky Telg, Lauri Baker, Angela Lindsey, Michaela Kandzer, Cheng-Xian Yang, Aly Morrison
The Slice
Category: Publishing 2, Magazines and Periodicals
Team Members: Sydney Honeycutt, Rachel Stormant, Michaela Kandzer, Kaelyn Nelson, Shelby Thomas, Ricky Telg, Aly Morrison
