Won a prize for development work?

[Marjorie_F_Intel]

As I read about developer Jason Nissen's good fortune, I'm interested to find out if you have ever won a cool prize for an application, code sample, or brilliant solution you've done. Share your good luck story with us!

[Intel_C_Intel]

I didn't get a prize for developing anything, but I won a whopping 20 megabyte hard drive way back when drives like that cost about $1500. I was totally excited because I never win anything!

[ronald_g_guenther]

I was fortunate enough to win the NWA's Larry R. Johnson award for developing a system that saved over a decade's worth of archived weather data.