--- title: Boom wins Academics' Choice Award for Mind-Building Excellence | Boom Learning News description: Learn why Academics’ Choice Award for Mind-Building Excellence cite Boom Cards as a fantastic resource! --- [Boom Learning News | Blog ](https://www.boomlearning.com/boom-learning-news-blog) # [Boom wins Academics' Choice Award for Mind-Building Excellence | Boom Learning News](https://www.boomlearning.com/boom-learning-news-blog/boom-learning-wins-academics-choice-award-for-mind-building-excellence) Written by [Mary Oemig, Co-Founder and CEO](https://www.boomlearning.com/boom-learning-news-blog/author/mary-oemig-co-founder-and-ceo) | Nov 26, 2017 8:00:00 AM Kirkland, WA November 26, 2017 Boom Learning Inc. is pleased to announce that [Boom Cards](https://wow.boomlearning.com) has been honored with the Academic’s Choice Award, a prestigious seal of educational quality, reserved only for the best mind-building media and toys. The independent Academics’ Choice Awards program and its seal of excellence are recognized worldwide by consumers and educational institutions as a mark of genuinely effective learning tools that stimulate the mind, and provide the potential for the student to fully develop higher order thinking skills. The Academics’ Choice Advisory Board consists of leading thinkers and graduates from Princeton, Harvard, George Washington University, and other reputable educational institutions. Product-appropriate volunteer reviewers, combined with the brainpower of the Board, determine the coveted winners. Entries are judged by category (i.e. mobile app, toy, book, website, magazine, etc.), subject area, and grade level, and evaluated based on standardized criteria rooted in constructivist learning theory. The full list of winners is posted online at [http://www.AcademicsChoice.com](http://www.AcademicsChoice.com). Academics’ Choice Awards Reviewers [had a lot to say](http://www.academicschoice.com/websites/boom-cards.php) about Boom Cards. > This is a fantastic resource that I hope homeschooling parents and teachers will take advantage of! Boom Cards is the “Teachers Pay Teachers” of learning apps! Reviewers were taken by the variety, interactivity, game-play and ease of use: > I love that learning is presented in a FUN and interactive way. Kids learn so well through game-play. The site was easy to use, and I appreciated being able to search both by subject AND grade level – allowing me to narrow down the decks available to those that were age-appropriate for my kids. I appreciate that there are both free and “for profit” games available, allowing for a wider range of consumers to use and enjoy the product. While I didn’t create any decks, I love the option to do so, and plan on utilizing that feature in the future. The hundreds of submitted products that are not chosen by the Academics’ Choice Awards team (and many that are chosen) are donated to a variety of worthy charities and other organizations across the globe. About Academics’ Choice™: Academics’ Choice™ helps consumers find exceptional brain-boosting material. Academics’ Choice is the only international awards program designed to bring increased recognition to publishers, manufacturers, independent authors and developers that aim to stimulate cognitive development. A volunteer panel of product-appropriate judges, including parents, educators, scientists, artists, doctors, nurses, librarians, students and children, evaluate submissions based on educational benefits such as higher-order thinking skills, character building, creative play, durability and originality. Only the genuine “mind-builders” are recognized with the coveted Academics’ Choice Award™. Boom Learning is the brainchild of Senator Eric Oemig and Mary Heuett Oemig. Its modern form resulted when a good friend introduced them to the extraordinary [Rachel Lynette](http://minds-in-bloom.com/). Boom Learning puts the power of the digital revolution in the hands of teachers, data they need, tools they need, and freedom to innovate. 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