# 2024 Tulip Community Year in Review - Thank you for being a part of the Tulip Community! **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Created:** [December 18, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/2024-tulip-community-year-in-review-thank-you-for-being-a-part-of-the-tulip-community/13348 "2024-12-18T14:00:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Beth](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/beth/32/5987_2.png) [@Beth](https://community.tulip.co/u/Beth)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/2024-tulip-community-year-in-review-thank-you-for-being-a-part-of-the-tulip-community/13348/2 "2024-12-18T14:00:51Z")
## Our Community is growing every day… ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/agilemfg/original/2X/8/899c63c361967faf803df5b26bf256842506e6e3.png) ## But here, you’re not just a number. Your contributions, successes, and individuality is celebrated! ## In the online forum, we have a couple of standout individuals (and special badges to celebrate your contributions too!) - Most topics created (Badge: Top Discussion Driver): @sebme - Most replies given (Badge: Top Helper): @thorsten.langner - Most likes given (Badge: Top Supporter): @ZAP - Most likes received (Badge: Top Influencer) : @danielpomeranz - Most time reading (Badge: Top Learner): @Preston ## We also celebrated some amazing Community members with Spotlight features > [@Community Spotlight: Meet Abigail Tingley!](https://community.tulip.co/t/community-spotlight-meet-abigail-tingley/11627): > > Introducing Community Spotlights! These are special features to introduce you to the awesome folks working beside you in the Tulip Community slight_smileThis month, I am so excited to feature Abigail Tingley (@zeiglera), a Development Manufacturing Engineer who has a passion for creative problem-solving, an eagerness to always learn new things, and a human-centric approach focused on serving the operators on the shop floor. In her 2 years or so with AirBorn, she has alr… > [@Community Spotlight: Meet Carol Lin!](https://community.tulip.co/t/community-spotlight-meet-carol-lin/12073): > > It’s time for another Community Spotlight! These are special features to introduce you to the awesome folks working beside you in the Tulip Community slight_smileThis month, I am so excited to feature Carol Lin (@carlin ), a Materials Design Engineer at DMG MORI in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. With a strong background in materials engineering as an application specialist in a metallographic lab, she was recruited for her well-rounded skill set and passion for materials science by DMG MORI to w… > [@Community Spotlight: Meet Richard Shaw!](https://community.tulip.co/t/community-spotlight-meet-richard-shaw/12970): > > It’s time for another Community Spotlight! These are special features to introduce you to the awesome folks working alongside you in the Tulip Community slight_smileThis month, I am so excited to feature Richard Shaw (@Richard-SNN), a Staff Digital Transformation Engineer at Smith & Nephew. Richard enjoys digging into complex, technical problems and is passionate about exploring and implementing new technologies in manufacturing. As you’ll read in this spotlight, he is also active in both hi… ## This year, we got to celebrate our [Groundbreaker Award](https://tulip.co/groundbreakers/) Winners in person for the first time with a special ceremony at Operations Calling! ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/agilemfg/original/2X/a/a0a86762c54791c7eef8aeabbe473e10b07fc2c7.jpeg) ### We had 5 Golden Shovel Winners. _The Golden Shovel Award acknowledges individuals who have leveraged Tulip and their app-building expertise in creative, and interesting ways to solve problems, and drive operational value in their organization._ - Ryan Infantozzi (@rinfantozzi) - Hivzo Cehajic (@HCEH) - Steve Midcalf (@steve.midcalf) - Esmeralda Gonzalez (@guadalupe.gonzalez) - Daniel Ferrow ### We had 2 Greenhouse Award Winners. _The Greenhouse Award recognizes manufacturing sites or companies who are empowering their team with digital tools in the spirit of growth and continuous improvement._ - Bloom Energy (@jay.shah, @iamwout, @sandeep.ingale) - AstraZeneca (Tulip Lifecycle Solution Team which included @Dodd and our partners at Factorytalk) ## Huge congratulations to all our Groundbreaker Award winners! 🎉 The things you all are accomplishing with Tulip is truly inspirational. You can learn more about the Groundbreaker Award winners here: [https://tulip.co/blog/announcing-the-2024-winners-of-the-tulip-groundbreaker-awards/](https://tulip.co/blog/announcing-the-2024-winners-of-the-tulip-groundbreaker-awards/) --- _[View the full topic](https://community.tulip.co/t/2024-tulip-community-year-in-review-thank-you-for-being-a-part-of-the-tulip-community/13348)._