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G.W. CARVER MIDDLE SCHOOL NAMED A GRAND PRIZE WINNER IN THE G.W. Carver Middle School has been named one of five grand prize winners in the 2014 Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest. The competition was created in 2010 to raise awareness and interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) among U.S. public school students. The winners were chosen from more than 2,300 schools across the nation. Participants were challenged to apply their classroom learning to solve issues in their communities and create videos to showcase their solutions to the challenges. Carver Middle’s video submission titled, Old Smokey’s Dirty Secret, detailed how students aspired to gather scientific evidence to bring attention to a community environmental challenge, the city’s former garbage incinerator, in order to compel public action. Carver Middle won the Community Choice Award with close to 11,000 public online votes. The other four grand prize winning schools are located in Montana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington. The five national winners will each receive more than $140,000 in technology products such as smart boards and laptops and will be honored at an awards assembly in Washington, D.C. on April 30. Since 2004, Samsung’s education programs have provided more than $13 million in technology to more than 500 public schools in the U.S. # # # 14-JJS/053/VVL |
