For Immediate Release

    Tim Comolli

    652-7058  tcomolli@sbschools.net

 

           

                       

SBHS Imaging Lab Receives $2,500 Grant from

the Best Buy Children’s Foundation to Enhance Technology in School Curriculum

 

te@ch™ Program Awarded $2.9 Million to Schools Nationwide

for Integrating Interactive Technology into the Curriculum

 

 

South Burlington, VT    March 12, 2004,  South Burlington High School announced today that the Best Buy Children’s Foundation has awarded a $2,500 te@ch grant to the school for integrating interactive technology into the curriculum. The grant funds will be used to enhance the Imaging Lab's video capability and was submitted to the Best Buy Children’s Foundation. This program ,which hooks kids with high-end computer graphics and animation, will help extend students interests in video technology .

 

te@ch is a new program which Best BuyTM launched in October, and was designed to reward schools that creatively integrate interactive technology into their curricula. All accredited, public and private nonprofit elementary, middle and secondary schools located within 25 miles of a Best Buy store were eligible to apply. Grants of $2,500 were awarded to nearly 1,200 schools to sustain or enhance existing educational programs.

 

“Today, teachers across the country are using technology in new and creative ways; we want to support and recognize their efforts to make learning fun and easy,” said Susan Hoff, president of the Best Buy Children’s Foundation. “The te@ch program helps innovative educators enhance their curricula. By committing dollars to the communities in which we work and live, we can more fully support our employees, our customers, and their families.”

 

Visit www.bestbuy.com and click on Community Relations for more information on the Best Buy Children’s Foundation and the education and technology-based partnerships and programs it supports.

 

South Burlington High School

550 Dorset Street

South Burlijngton, VT 05403 .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About The Best Buy Children's Foundation

The Best Buy Children’s Foundation, established in 1994, is committed to making learning fun through the funding of innovative, interactive and technology-based programs that engage and educate K-12 students. The Foundation provides grants to national nonprofit organizations with technology-related programs and directly to Best Buy™ communities. The Foundation is a nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable, educational, literary or scientific purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and Section 290.05 of the Minn. Stat. Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY), the primary contributor to The Foundation, is North America’s leading specialty retailer of consumer electronics, personal computers, entertainment software and appliances. Best Buy Co., Inc. donates 1.5 percent of its annual pretax earnings to the communities in which it does business.