Stanford Web Services and Stanford School of Engineering Receive Anthem Award

Stanford Web Services (SWS), in collaboration with the Stanford School of Engineering (SoE), received a silver Anthem Award for exceptional work on the Stanford Engineering Centennial website. This award was in the “Awareness” category, which recognizes websites that highlight community-driven events to raise awareness or address significant causes in education, art, and culture.

Showcasing School of Engineering excellence

The Engineering Centennial Website serves as a celebratory, informational hub, providing essential details to the global Stanford Engineering community about the school’s rich 100-year history, milestones, events, and other activities. The website received 20,000 visitors in its first five months!

Through a dynamic UX, including an interactive timeline and decade stories, the website enables site visitors to engage with a century of discovery, innovation, and impact. 

“The depth of experience SWS brings in the areas of design, development, and project management, as well as their thorough knowledge of the Stanford web ecosystem, made this large project possible on a relatively short timeline,” said Sarah Bielecki, director of content strategy in the School of Engineering “The creativity of Kerri Augenstein and Rebecca Hong on the design team brought us so much joy. The programming, also by Rebecca, helped make our vision a reality. Davina Pallone’s project managing prowess kept all of the moving parts on track. Together, they were the web dream team.”

A Stanford collaboration

A years-long collaboration between SWS and SoE enabled the launch of a centennial website that seamlessly integrated the school’s storytelling priorities with its strong brand standards for creativity and excellence. By strategically leveraging SWS’s existing design frameworks and front-end development assets, the team built a platform for visually engaging, interactive storytelling without incurring high costs typically associated with custom design projects. 

“We were honored to deliver a web experience for the school’s centennial book, authored by Andrew Myers and edited by Julie Greicius. Ten stories, one per decade, wove archival imagery with the school's history,” said Kerri Augenstein, user experience architect and creative director, SWS. “Working from an external agency's brand guide, we crafted custom, reusable elements for each story. Front-end engineer Rebecca Hong animated scrolling components, building a rich and dynamic experience for the school’s history and interactive 100-year timeline. And as has always been true, our clients/partners, Sarah and Julie, invaluably guided content strategy, messaging, and creative feedback throughout the process.”

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