WIT's Women of the Year Awards gathers top members of Georgia's STEAM community to recognize and announce the Women of the Year for their accomplishments as leaders in business, visionaries of technology, ground-breakers in business, and remarkable leaders who make a difference in our community.

Women in Technology (WIT) announced the winners of its annual Women of the Year in Technology Awards, presented by The Coca-Cola Company, at its WIT Awards dinner held last Thursday night at the Georgia Aquarium.

WIT's Women of the Year Awards gathers top members of Georgia's STEAM community to recognize and announce the Women of the Year for their accomplishments as leaders in business, visionaries of technology, ground-breakers in business, and remarkable leaders who make a difference in our community.

One winner from each category, representing Non-Profit Organization, Small/Emerging Organization, Medium/Mid-Size Organization and Educational Institution, and Large/Enterprise Organization was selected.

NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION CATEGORY WINNER:
Michelle Coward Wells, Lead Physicist, Piedmont Healthcare

SMALL/EMERGING CATEGORY WINNER:
Annie Eaton, CEO, Futurus

MEDIUM/MID-SIZE ORGANIZATION & EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION CATEGORY WINNER:
Sherry Farrugia, Chief Operating and Strategy Officer, GT/CHOA Pediatric Technology Center

LARGE/ENTERPRISE CATEGORY WINNER:
Diana Lee Caplinger, Chief Administrative Officer, Consumer Technology, SunTrust Banks, Inc.

Also presented at the event:

WIT Girl of the Year Award

Medinah Allah, a sophomore at Ayo Aby Academy, was recognized with the WIT Girl of the Year Award which is sponsored by Scintel Technologies along with a $2,500 scholarship from Scintel and a $2,500 scholarship from State Farm.

Allah, an active member of the WIT Girls program, is a sophomore at Ayo Aby Academy.
She is the lead engineer of Eve, an all-girl robotics team and hopes to study mechatronics or mechanical engineering in college.

For the second consecutive year, each Girl of the Year runner up was presented with a $1,000 scholarship from Mercedes-Benz, an AT&T smartphone and a laptop from Dell.