Congratulations to the university student winners of the 2006 Google Gadget Awards!

The award winners' gadgets are linked below. Or, check out the complete directory of gadgets for your Personalized Hompeage.

	Best overall universal gadget MapMyWord Dictionary Nathan Sakunkoo Stanford University MapMyWord displays word definitions, synonyms, and relationships in graphs. It is an interactive graphic dictionary and thesaurus, which dynamically draws color-coded vivid representation of words, their relationships (16 types), and meanings in radial clickable graphs. Special editable features include wordlist difficulty setting, next word randomization, spelling suggestions, automatic height adjustment, sample usage mini-message, and clickable nodes and words.
	Best overall desktop gadget World News Viewer Spencer Slam University of Michigan News items arrive from around the world and are displayed on a world map. The gadget uses a Reuters RSS feed to find news articles and displays an alert at the location listed in the article's heading.
	Most useful gadget Gadget Maker Ryan Brown University of Southern California Make a gadget out of any webpage! Judged by: Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine
	Most intelligent gadget MapMyWord Dictionary Nathan Sakunkoo Stanford University Judged by: John Hennessy, President of Stanford University
	Gadget most likely to help you get a date My MoodJam Ian Li Carnegie Mellon University MoodJam is a website where you can record your moods with colors and words. Your moods are visualized in beautiful color strips. Judged by: Rob Malda, a.k.a. "Commander Taco," Founder of Slashdot
	Most addictive gadget WordHunter Xtreme Pamela Fox University of Southern California This game of word hunting allows you to guess slang, proper nouns, and more! Plus, read the definitions of every word you guess correctly. Judged by: Randy Bryant, Dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
	Prettiest gadget My MoodJam Ian Li Carnegie Mellon University Judged by: Gina Pell, CEO & Founder of Splendora.com
USC	Top university for gadget submission University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA