Bennett Awards recently created a custom award for Discovery Communications, the world’s #1 pay-TV programmer, and the provider of nearly 200 worldwide TV networks, including Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, and Science. The award was created as a retirement gift for Discovery Channel’s founder and former Chairman, John Hendricks. This was one of the more unique custom awards we have created – it was centered around a 6” Megalodon (giant prehistoric shark) tooth estimated to be around 12 million years old.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Lorde, CHVRCHES, The Neighbourhood, and Lindsey Sterling were all recent recipients of custom awards designed by Bennett Awards. These recognition awards were commissioned by SoundExchange for their inaugural 2014 SoundExchange Pulse Awards. The SoundExchange PULSE Award recognizes the quick market entry and continued sustainability of artists in the digital radio streaming music space.

Bob Costas, the Emmy-winning American sportscaster, received a Bennett recognition award from the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) as the 2014 recipient of WWP’s Tony Snow Award. The Tony Snow Award is designed to recognize a citizen in corporate America, the media, and/or the public eye who by their actions has made a significant difference in the lives of injured servicemen and women – and who has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to Wounded Warrior Project and its mission. This is the seventh straight year the WWP has used this achievement award for their Tony Snow Awards.

Bennett Awards was commissioned to create a new custom award design for the “Iris Awards”, a new annual recognition award sponsored by the Mom 2.0 Summit, HLN, and HLNTV.com, that honors the year’s greatest achievements in parenting blogging as determined by leaders in new media, traditional media, journalism, marketing, and the creative arts.

The Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA), a national organization of collegiate lacrosse programs, commissioned Bennett Awards to create a set of custom trophies for their 2014 National Championship. The overall award design was based on the MCLA logo and an impressionistic lacrosse stick, and the awards were produced out of a combination of steel and acrylic.

Bennett Awards created set of custom award trophies for the 2014 Jordan Brand Classic, one of the nation’s premier prep basketball events. This was the 13th year the Jordan Brand Classic has been staged.

The organizers of the Firestone Grand Prix of St Pete commissioned Bennett Awards to create a new set of custom trophies for champions of its 2014 Verizon IndyCar Series race.

The Louisiana Office of Tourism, along with the office of Lt. Governor Jay Dardenne, recently launched a new year-long program designed to promote Louisiana music and culture outside the state. A key component of the program, called the Louisiana Music Ambassador Project, is unique, music-themed recognition awards created by Bennett Awards.

The U.S. Soccer Federation selected a recognition trophy from Bennett Awards to award to the champion of their recent U-17 Women’s NTC Invitational.

NBC’s series FASHION STAR was recently awarded a Bennett recognition award by the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE), a professional association of television and emerging media executives.