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+title: "Kelley Robinson receives community award"
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+We are pleased to announce that the Phil Bagwell Memorial Scala Community Award for 2019 has been awarded to [Kelley Robinson](https://twitter.com/kelleyrobinson). The award was presented in Lausanne at the outset of [Scala Days 2019](https://scaladays.org/ !!change the link once web team makes an archive link!! Watch the ceremony [here](https://scaladays.org/schedule/phil-bagwell-award--closing-panel).
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+Kelley is known to Scala users as:
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+Seth or Josh to add
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+The Bagwell Award is named in honor of Phil Bagwell, who passed away in 2012. In a [2012 blog post](https://www.typesafe.com/blog/rip-phil-bagwell), Martin Odersky remembers Phil and his special place in the Scala community.
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+In 2019 at [the celebratory Scala Days](https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2019/01/17/scala-days-2019-celebrating-collaborative-success.html), 2 Phil Bagwell awards were given, 2018 and 2019. The Award Committee was assembled out of the previous Award winners (check below), who took [the Scala Community for nominations](https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2019/03/01/phil-bagwell-nominations.html) in consideration.
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+Past winners of the award:
+* 2018: [Kenji Yoshida]()!!add link once merged!!
+* 2017: [Josh Suereth](https://www.scala-lang.org/news/2017/09/25/bagwell-award-2017.html)
+* 2016: [Erik Osheim](https://www.scala-lang.org/news/2016/10/26/bagwell-award-2016.html)
+* 2015: [Bill Venners](http://scala-lang.org/news/2015/06/25/bagwell-award-2015.html)
+* 2014: [Lalit Pant](https://kojoenv.wordpress.com/2014/09/27/phil-bagwell-award/)
+* 2013: [Dick Wall](https://twitter.com/dickwall)
+* 2014: [Lalit Pant](https://kojoenv.wordpress.com/2014/09/27/phil-bagwell-award/)
+* 2013: [Dick Wall](https://twitter.com/dickwall)