Amid an ever-changing and ever-challenging year, it’s important to take a moment to celebrate the good.

As we wrote when we launched nominations for the 2020 Technical.ly Awards, this year is different. It must be. More than celebrating success for success’ sake, with the 2020 awards program, we aimed to honor the challenges overcome, as well as ongoing work to make local tech and entrepreneurship communities places that also challenge racism, the pandemic and the unjust status quo.

When we announced the categories and nominees for our 2020 Technical.ly Awards a few weeks ago, we received more than 1,700 votes in a couple weeks. It’s clear those in Baltimore’s tech and entrepreneurship community want a say in spotlighting those worthy of some accolades this year.

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE