{"id":15727,"date":"2026-06-22T11:52:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stnexpo.com\/west\/?p=15727"},"modified":"2026-06-22T11:52:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:52:56","slug":"innovation-choice-awards-open-for-stn-expo-west-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stnexpo.com\/west\/innovation-choice-awards-open-for-stn-expo-west-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Choice Awards Open for STN EXPO West 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>STN EXPO attendees have the opportunity to vote on their favorite hardware, technology and software products made for the pupil transportation industry at the upcoming STN EXPO West.<\/strong><span id=\"more-92677\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/stnmedia.wufoo.com\/forms\/mn404490qpsr42\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">STN EXPO Innovation Choice Awards program<\/a> is open to any individual, organization or authorized agent who exhibits at STN EXPO West 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/stnexpo.com\/west\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conference<\/a> and promotes school transportation products. The product entered must be available in the market for the first time between Jan. 1 and July 20 of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The four categories include: Best Hardware, Best Software\/AI Solutions, Best Safety Technology and Best Green Technology. Attendees will have the option to vote on-site, starting July 13.<\/p>\n<p>Each exhibitor will have a QR code at their booth attendees can scan to vote during the Wonderland of Ideas Tradeshow + Networking Reception July 13 and the Trade Show + Lunch July 14. Voting will be open at 5 p.m. July and closes at 3 p.m. July 14. Exhibitors and sponsors are not eligible to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Winners will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STN EXPO West 2025 attendees network with industry peers and vendors at the conference Trade Show (Photo by Vincent Rios Creative)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stnexpo.com\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stnexpo.com\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stnexpo.com\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stnexpo.com\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stnexpo.com\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stnexpo.com\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15729,"href":"https:\/\/stnexpo.com\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15727\/revisions\/15729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stnexpo.com\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stnexpo.com\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stnexpo.com\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stnexpo.com\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}