Boulder-based FreeWave Technologies Inc. received a Smart Grid Product of the Year 2012 Award from SmartGrid.TMCnet.com, a TMC and Crossfire Media sponsored website. FreeWave’s Cellular Bridge solution helps customers establish remote monitoring combining radio technology with cellular communications. It provides users with secure and reliable wireless communication capabilities for mission critical sensor applications.

Front Range Community College’s president Andrew Dorsey received a Shirley B. Gordon Award of Distinction from Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for community colleges. The award recognizes outstanding efforts given toward promoting the goals of Phi Theta Kappa. FRCC has Phi Theta Kappa chapters at its campuses in Boulder and Larimer counties, and Westminster. Phi Theta Kappa recognizes academic achievement and provides its members with opportunities for growth and development through honors, leadership, service and fellowship programs.

Boulder-based advertising agency The Fresh Ideas Group received a 2013 Bulldog Bronze Award for Best Food & Beverages Campaign. The agency received the award for its work on the 34 Degrees Sweet Crisp launch, a campaign to educate consumers and media on the new product. The campaign was divided into two phases, consumer and trade, with tactics consisting of targeted pitching, a New York City deskside media tour, traditional sampling efforts, trade shows, social media, and large-scale blogger outreach. 34 Degrees’ media results grew from 5.3 million impressions in 2011 to 33.9 million in 2012 for a growth rate of 639 percent. The Bulldog Awards celebrate superior media and publicity campaigns and are determined by working journalists who base their decision on the campaign’s extraordinary visibility and influence opinion, as well as on their creativity, command of media and technology and tenacity.

Marty Ralph and Allen White, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, received 2013 Climate Science Service awards at a drought prediction workshop in San Diego sponsored by the Department of Water Resources and the Western States Water Council. The awards recognize ongoing assistance provided by scientists who have been working with the department on climate research.

Ruth Perry, food bank manager at Sister Carmen Center in Lafayette, will receive the Spring 2013 ASF Elders Who Inspire! Award from the Aging Services Foundation of Boulder County. The award will be presented at 1 p.m., Monday, May 12, in the auditorium at Centaurus High School.