Theia Technologies Announces Winners of 2025 Video Contest

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Wilsonville, OR – August 26th 2025

Theia Technologies, an award-winning optics design and manufacturing company known for its ultra-wide, no-distortion lenses and high-resolution compact, motorized telephoto lenses, is proud to announce the winners of its 2025 Video Contest.

The contest invited participants worldwide to showcase their creativity and technical expertise by submitting videos captured with Theia lenses across four categories: Automation & Robotics, Intelligent Traffic Systems, Security & Video Surveillance, and Other Applications. The goal was to highlight real-world examples of Theia’s lenses in action, demonstrating their performance, features, and benefits in a wide range of industries.

After a competitive judging period, Theia’s internal team selected winners based on lens performance, clarity of application, and overall video quality. Theia is pleased to recognize the following winners:

• Grand Prize:
  - George Mallard, Automation & Robotics - Inspection, Theia's SL410A
• Category Gold Award:
  - Jerry Eliason, Other Applications - Underwater Observation, Theia's MY125M
  - Olivia Estrada, Intelligent Traffic Systems - LPR, Theia's TL1250P-IQ N6 CS
• Category Silver Award:
  - Tommie Minor, Automation & Robotics - OCR, Theia's ML610M
  - Ezequiel Morales, Security & Video Surveillance - Monitoring, Theia's TL1250P-IQ N6 CS
  

“The creativity and technical excellence of this year’s submissions exceeded our expectations,” said Andrea Van, V.P. Business Development at Theia Technologies. “Hexicurity’s winning video demonstrates the power of Theia optics to aide automation and robotics applications, Jerry Eliason’s work highlights a unique real-world application, and Lore Technology impressed us in both the Security and Intelligent Traffic Systems categories. We are equally excited to recognize The Imaging Source for their innovative work in automation highlighting Optical Character Recognition. We are thrilled to celebrate all of this year’s winners.”

Winning videos will be featured across Theia’s website, newsletters, and social media platforms to inspire others in the imaging and vision systems community.

About Theia: Theia Technologies provides high quality 4K and megapixel lenses for machine vision, intelligent traffic systems, video surveillance and other applications. Their patented, award winning Linear Optical Technology® corrects barrel distortion and improves image resolution over typical wide lenses. Theia lenses are designed and marketed from the US, and manufactured to ISO 9001:2015 standards. Theia also provides optical engineering and custom design services. Theia has several issued and pending US and foreign patents for lens technologies. For more information visit www.theiatech.com.

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