Senturo Wins Tech & Learning Best of Show Award at ISTELive 2026

Senturo has been named a winner in the Tech & Learning Best of Show Awards at ISTELive 2026 in the Secondary Education category.

Announced on July 1, 2026, the award recognizes products exhibited at ISTELive 26 in Orlando that judges believe are helping schools improve how they teach, operate, and support their communities.

For Senturo, the recognition highlights a long-standing challenge for K–12 IT teams: gaining reliable location visibility and recovery tools across a mixed fleet of school-issued devices.

Key takeaways

• Senturo won a Tech & Learning Best of Show Award at ISTELive 2026 in the Secondary Education category.
• Judges recognized Senturo’s ability to work alongside popular MDM and device administration platforms.
• The judging panel highlighted Senturo’s response to the long-standing gap in K–12 device geolocation.
• This is Senturo’s second Tech & Learning honor, following its Awards of Excellence: Best of 2024 win.

What the judges said about Senturo

In granting Senturo the award, the judges stated:

“The creators of this product were very smart in creating something that is used alongside popular MDM and device administration tools. The lack of good geolocation tools has long been an issue and these tools seem to help a great deal. It’s a great tool for anyone who has to manage a fleet of devices.”

That feedback reflects Senturo’s role in the K–12 technology stack.

MDM platforms are designed primarily for enrollment, configuration, policy enforcement, and application management. Senturo works alongside those platforms to add deeper location visibility and purpose-built device recovery workflows.

Senturo currently integrates with Google Admin Console, Jamf Pro, Microsoft Intune, and Cisco Meraki, as well as Incident IQ for asset and ticketing workflows.

From one dashboard, districts can access frequent device location updates, geofencing, location history, network data, remote actions, and automated recovery workflows across ChromeOS, Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android.

About the Best of Show Awards

Tech & Learning’s Best of Show Awards recognize products exhibited at major education technology events.

Nominated products are reviewed by a panel of edtech experts, district leaders, and editors, with judges evaluating products through submitted information and inspection on the ISTE show floor.

Winners at ISTELive 2026 were announced across three categories: Primary Education, Secondary Education, and Higher Education.

Why this matters for K–12 districts

The award comes at a challenging time for district technology budgets.

With pandemic-era funding no longer available, many IT teams have less flexibility to replace missing Chromebooks, laptops, and tablets. They need to recover devices faster, reduce unnecessary replacement costs, and keep school-issued technology available for students.

Recovering a missing device instead of replacing it can save a district hundreds of dollars, reduce the time staff spend searching, and return assigned technology to the student more quickly.

Senturo helps districts answer a question that traditional device administration tools do not always solve well:

Where is the device, and what can we do to recover it?

By bringing device location, recovery evidence, remote actions, and cross-platform fleet visibility into one system, Senturo helps stretched IT teams respond more quickly without replacing the tools they already use.

Independent validation of Senturo’s approach

The Best of Show award provides independent recognition of Senturo’s core product philosophy.

Districts should not have to replace their MDM or rebuild their existing workflows to improve device recovery. Senturo is designed to fit alongside the systems already in place and add the specialized location and recovery capabilities K–12 teams need.

This distinction is especially important for districts managing large 1:1 programs, mixed operating systems, limited staff, and growing pressure to demonstrate accountability for every device.

About Senturo

Senturo is a device-tracking and fleet-security platform built for K–12 IT teams.

Serving districts across 27 U.S. states, Senturo helps schools locate missing devices, reduce replacement costs, improve fleet accountability, and protect learning continuity across ChromeOS, Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android.

Its integrations with major device administration and asset management platforms allow districts to improve recovery workflows without disrupting their existing technology stack.

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Frequently asked questions

Who judges the Tech & Learning Best of Show Awards?

The awards are judged by a panel of edtech experts, district leaders, and Tech & Learning editors. Nominated products are reviewed through submitted product information and on-site evaluation at ISTELive.

Does Senturo replace an MDM?

No. Senturo works alongside platforms including Google Admin Console, Jamf Pro, Microsoft Intune, and Cisco Meraki.

Those platforms support enrollment, configuration, application management, and policy enforcement. Senturo adds specialized cross-platform location visibility, fleet accountability, and device recovery workflows.

Which operating systems does Senturo support?

Senturo supports ChromeOS, Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android from a single dashboard.

What can districts use Senturo for?

Districts use Senturo to locate missing devices, review location and network history, create geofences, automate alerts and actions, delegate recovery tasks, and improve visibility across mixed-device fleets.

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