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Tests in TOMMI libraries show how accessible nominated 2022 Games are

TOMMI - DEUTSCHER KINDERSOFTWAREPREIS 2022: The winners have been announced!

TOMMI - DEUTSCHER KINDERSOFTWAREPREIS 2022: The TOMMInierungen sind fest!

TOMMI - GERMAN CHILDREN'S SOFTWARE AWARD 202: Call for publishers, children's jury and kindergartens
20 years TOMMI

TOMMI - DEUTSCHER KINDERSOFTWAREPREIS 2021: The winners have been announced!

TOMMI - DEUTSCHER KINDERSOFTWAREPREIS 2021: The TOMMInierungen sind fest!

TOMMI - DEUTSCHER KINDERSOFTWAREPREIS 2020: The winners have been announced!

TOMMI - GERMAN CHILDREN'S SOFTWARE AWARD 2020: Call for publishers, children's jury and kindergartens.
New category "Education"- New partners - New: TOMMI Kindergarten Award

3331 children have chosen the best games of the year in about 20 libraries.

The 2019 TOMMI expert jury has nominated the 44 best games for children. Now it's the turn of the children in around 20 libraries.

As of now, the best digital games for children can be submitted. First a jury of educators, scientists and journalists will decide on the nominations. then it's the turn of children in around 20 libraries to choose the winners.

Truffle Dog TOMMI is once again looking for the best digital games in 2017. A jury of journalists, scientists and educators will select the nominations, followed by a children's jury and around 20 public libraries.

After weeks of perky pirate girls, gigantic spaceships and programmable robots, the winners of the TOMMI 2016 children's software award were honored at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

When little monsters jump out of picture books, drones nervously buzz on the ceiling and trucks thunder down tracks at high speed, that's when the hour of the tester arrives.

This year, 3599 children in more than 20 public libraries took part in the judging process to choose the winners.

For weeks, an expert jury of journalists and media educators slipped into the roles of telekinetic heroines, dumb Stone Age people and cute woolly dinos. They built robots, constructed tracks of an electric train or controlled digital racing cars. In 2015, it was once again evident that the greatest innovative power was to be found in the electronic toy segment. Now the "Tomminierungen" have been decided and the children's jury is plunging into the hot testing phase in more than 20 public libraries across Germany.

The renowned children's software award TOMMI 2015 enters its 14th round to honor the best digital games for children. What's special about the TOMMI Children's Software Award is that a highly qualified jury of educators and trade journalists first nominates the best entries, and a children's jury then selects the winners in public libraries.

They had the final say: Around 2,600 children voted for the best games for consoles, PCs and apps in over 20 libraries - for the first time also in the electronic toy category.

In recent weeks, an expert jury made up of journalists, media educators, scientists and librarians not only took a close look at apps, PC and console games, but also at the new TOMMI "Electronic Toys" category. Another new feature is that only five games each were nominated for the PC and console categories instead of ten. "The upheaval in the games industry," explains TOMMI co-initiator Thomas Feibel, "is also being felt by the Children's Software Award. Only a few manufacturers currently have children in mind with their products. Instead, the trend has shifted even more toward apps and electronic toys."

New record: Around 4,500 children took part in over 20 libraries nationwide to determine the TOMMI winners for the console, PC and app categories. The winner of the special Kindergarten & Preschool award is an app.

In order to determine the nominations for the German Children's Software Award TOMMI 2013, the renowned jury of experts looked into the everyday life of the Lakota Indians, stepped ankle-deep through the absurd world of adventure games and even got to program their own retro game computer.

This year, the TOMMI completes the dozen, as the German Children's Software Award will be presented for the 12th time in October.

3,500 children determined the winners in the PC and console games categories after intensive testing in 19 libraries. At the same time, almost 2,000 reader families decided on the winners in the games apps segment.

After many weeks of testing with magic portals, talking pens and various dance interludes with Sesame Street monsters, the expert jury of the German Children's Software Award TOMMI has now determined its nominations.

20 libraries are looking for girls and boys between the ages of six and 13 to participate in the TOMMI media literacy project.

The German Children's Software Award enters a new round, the eleventh. As every year, children determine the final winners after the critical pre-selection by a renowned jury of experts.