Virtual Kindergarten, an educational Web site and multimedia CD-ROM developed by Palantir, beat out a number of high-profile nominees, including Microsoft Corporation's Student 2006 and Atari's Dora the Explorer: Fairytale Adventures, to win the Codie Award for Best Instructional Solution: Students at Home at the Software & Information Industry Association's annual black-tie awards gala in San Francisco on May 16, 2006.