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An event formed in 2003 to honour outstanding individuals in Moncton's technology industry has dolled out its largest number of awards yet.

A panel of judges chose 12 winners of the Rising Stars award - it would normally name 10 - and featured four high school students in its Junior Rising Stars category Thursday night at the Delta Beauséjour hotel.

Steve Palmer, chairman of the Greater Moncton Knowledge Industry Network and co-CEO of Fredericton's Remsoft, reminisced Thursday afternoon in an interview about founding the competition, six years ago.

"It was a cash-strapped labour of love," he

said, pointing out the awards are now open to individuals from across the province.

"With the help of the Province of New Brunswick and Enterprise Greater Moncton (among the sponsors) we've expanded."

The following were named Rising Stars:

* Sal Belal, RapidMind Solutions Inc.

* Joe Cormier, Kleinmundo Solutions Inc.

* Nat Couture, Professional Quality Assurance (PQA) Ltd.

* James Keirstead, OAO Technology Solutions Inc.

* Patrick Kerry, CGI Group Inc.

* Mathieu A. Landry, Université de Moncton with the K.C. Irving Chair in Sustainable Development

* Stéphane Melanson, Atlantic Lottery Corp.

* Cheryl Nauss, Atlantic Lottery Corp.

* Troy Nelson, Red Ball Internet

* Shawn Peterson, T4G Ltd.

* Luc Volpé, JBL Soft Inc.

* Chelsea Wilson, Accreon Inc.

Four Junior Stars were honoured:

* Dongni Zhang, Bernice MacNaughton High School for work in sciences and academic achievement

* Mark Garnett, Simonds High School for digital film editing

* Diana Go and Jared Valdron, Riverview High School for work on attempted synthesis of novel anti-viral compounds

Rebecca Penty