PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 19, 2025--
Aramark, (NYSE:ARMK), a leading global provider of facilities management with operations spanning the education, healthcare, business and industry, sports, leisure and corrections industries was named the 2025 Ed Tech Product Awards winner in the Large Company Campus Equipment and Technology category. Aramark received the award for its AIWX Connect technology platform.
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AIWX Connect is an intelligent platform using IoT technology to identify building and occupant needs based on real-time occupancy, space utilization, equipment condition, and occupant feedback. Insights inform building performance, environmental conditions, and occupant satisfaction levels. These insights are used to proactively improve building services based on actual demand, resulting in operational efficiencies, improved productivity, and higher customer satisfaction.
In education settings, AIWX provides administrators with remote monitoring and real-time insight into critical operations. For example, sensors are used to detect leaks and avoid damage from flooding, refrigeration monitors prevent food spoilage due to falling temperatures, door monitors detect when exterior doors are open, vibration sensors detect failing HVAC equipment before operational disruption and sensors can detect vaping and smoking throughout a building. All this data resides in a single location for easy monitoring and access.
“We are honored to receive this recognition,” said Scott Beer, President and CEO of Aramark Facilities Management. “AIWX technology can align many systems within a school or group of schools and provide data driven performance metrics for better operational and financial outcomes for our clients and customers.”
This year’s awards were held in conjunction with the highly anticipated Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC) at the Orlando Convention Center in January. The finalists, selected from hundreds of submissions, represent a diverse range of categories, showcasing the depth and breadth of innovation in education technology.
About Aramark
Aramark (NYSE: ARMK) proudly serves the world’s leading educational institutions, Fortune 500 companies, world champion sports teams, prominent healthcare providers, iconic destinations and cultural attractions, and numerous municipalities in 16 countries around the world with food and facilities management. Because of our hospitality culture, our employees strive to do great things for each other, our partners, our communities, and the planet. Learn more at www.aramark.com and connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, X, and Instagram.
About District Administration
District Administration serves the top K-12 leaders at virtually every school district in the U.S. with essential insights on effectively managing school districts. Through its print and digital platforms, DA empowers administrators with best practices and research-based strategies to enhance teacher quality and increase student achievement. With journalistic excellence and in-depth reporting, DA highlights success stories and actionable strategies to inspire district-wide progress. For further information please visit https://districtadministration.com/
About the Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC)
The Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC) has been a leading platform for over 40 years, bringing together thousands of visionary educators, technology leaders, and industry experts to shape the future of K-12 education. Hosted annually, FETC provides cutting-edge insights, hands-on workshops, and networking opportunities designed to empower educators with the tools and strategies they need to drive innovation in the classroom. As a hub for community, collaboration, and technological advancement, FETC continues to inspire transformative change and prepare schools for the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow. For further information please visit https://www.fetc.org/.
Aramark takes top honors for AIWX Connect. (Graphic: Business Wire)
ACERRA, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Saturday greeted one by one families who lost loved ones to illegal toxic dumping in an area near Naples, tied to a multi-billion criminal racket run by the mafia.
Many paused to share photographs and other mementos of children and young people who have died or are battling cancer because of the pollution.
Leo's visit to the so-called Terra dei Fuochi, or Land of Fires, came on the eve of the 11th anniversary of Pope Francis’ big ecological encyclical Laudato Si (Praised Be), and indicates Leo’s commitment to carry on his predecessor’s environmental agenda.
“I have come first of all to gather the tears of those who have lost loved ones, killed by environmental pollution caused by unscrupulous people and organizations who for too long were able to act with impunity,” Leo said in remarks to family members and local clergy inside Acerra's cathedral.
The pontiff recalled that the area now dubbed the Land of Fires was once called “Campania felix,” Latin for blessed or fruitful countryside, "capable for enchanting for its fertility, its produce and its culture, like a hymn to life.
"And yet — here is death, of the land and of men,'' the pope said.
The European Court of Human Rights last year validated a generation of residents’ complaints that mafia dumping, burial and burning of toxic waste led to an increased rate of cancer and other ailments in the area of 90 municipalities around Caserta and Naples, encompassing a population of 2.9 million people.
The court found Italian authorities had known since 1988 about the toxic pollution, blamed on the Camorra crime syndicate that controls waste disposal, but failed to take necessary steps to protect the residents. The binding ruling gave Italy two years to set up a database about the toxic waste and verified health risks associated with living there.
Bishop Antonio Di Donna estimated 150 young people had died in the city of some 58,000 over the past three decades — emphasizing in his opening remarks that the number didn't take into account adults and victims in other municipalities.
He urged the pope to admonish those who continue to pollute, noting that the dumping of tons of toxic waste was reported a day earlier near Castera. Di Donna said that Italian officials had identified dozens more human-caused contamination sites throughout the country, including the Venetian port of Marghera, and the leaching of PFAS forever chemicals into groundwater near Vicenza.
"We say to those brothers of ours ensnared in evil and seized by a mirage of fabulous earnings: Convert, change your ways, because what you are doing is not only a crime, it is a sin that cries out to God for vengeance,'' the bishop said.
The pope later greeted the mayors of the 90 communities impacted by the toxic dumping, and greeted thousands of people waving yellow flags and chanting “Papa Leone” along the route of his popemobile and in a central piazza.
The victims include Maria Venturato, who died of cancer in 2016 at the age of 25. Her father, Angelo, said he hopes to speak with the pope to explain their reality, “not for me … for the next generation.”
“I’d like to give these young people a future, so I’m asking for the pope’s help with this. That is, I’m making a strong appeal to him to go to those in power and say, ‘Look, let’s heal this land of fires,’" he said on the eve of the pope's visit.
Inside the cathedral, Filomena Carolla presented the pope with a book containing memories from the life of her daughter, Tina De Angelis, who died of cancer at the age of 24.
“I’m just angry at the people who poisoned the soil, because what did our children have to do with it? What did they have to do with it, so young,” Carolla told The Associated Press on Friday.
Francis' plans to visit the area in 2020 were canceled due to the pandemic.
A man presents a pizza with the portrait of Pope Leo XIV during his a one-day pastoral visit in Acerra, Italy, Saturday, May 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta)
Pope Leo XIV delivers his speech during his meeting with clergy, religious and families of victims of environmental pollution in the Saint Mary of the Assumption Cathedral in Acerra, near Naples, Italy, Saturday, May 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Pope Leo XIV rides on his popemobile during his one-day pastoral visit in Acerra, Italy, Saturday, May 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta)
A man enters a grocery store with posters of Pope Leo XIV ahead of his visit to the southern Italian town of Acerra in the Terra dei Fuochi, or Land of Fires, Friday, May 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Acerra bishop Antonio Di Donna speaks during an interview with the Associated Press ahead of Pope Leo XIV's visit to the southern Italian town of Acerra in the Terra dei Fuochi, or Land of Fires, an area scarred by decades of pollution from illegal waste dumping and burning, much of it linked to organized criminal groups, Friday, May 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Illegal waste is seen on the side of a road in the outskirts of the southern Italian town of Acerra in the Terra dei Fuochi, or Land of Fires, an area scarred by decades of pollution from illegal waste dumping and burning, much of it linked to organized criminal groups, Friday, May 22, 2026, a day ahead of Pope Leo XIV's visit. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Illegal waste is seen on the side of a road in the outskirts of the southern Italian town of Acerra in the Terra dei Fuochi, or Land of Fires, an area scarred by decades of pollution from illegal waste dumping and burning, much of it linked to organized criminal groups, Friday, May 22, 2026, a day ahead of Pope Leo XIV's visit. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Angelo Venturato talks during an interview with the Associated Press next to photos of his daughter Maria who died at the age of 25 of a cancer he claims to be connected to decades of pollution from illegal waste dumping and burning, much of it linked to organized criminal groups, in the southern town of Acerra, Friday, May 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
