Jonathan Kuhn from the Home Education Exchange in the Shoreline Public Scools Wins Grand Prize in National Computer Learning Month Contest.

(Shoreline, WA), April 30, 2000 - - Dr. Marlene Holayter, Superintendent of Shoreline Public Schools, announced that Jonathan Kuhn, a seventh grade student in their district, has been selected as the grand prize winner in the Computer Learning Foundation's Student Contest: Using Technology to Promote Community Values, held during Computer Learning Month in October 1999. The Computer Learning Foundation, an international nonprofit educational foundation, is dedicated to bringing the benefits of technology to children to improve the quality of education and to prepare them for the future. "To start the new millennium right, we need to make sure that we all take responsiblity for promoting positive values in our community," said Computer Learning Foundation Executive Director Sally Bowman Alden. "We believe that students can play a key role in making this happen and that technology offers powerful ways for them to communicate these important values."

In this contest, students submitted an original project that used technology to promote good citizenship and positive community values. Entries were judged on creativity, quality of presentation, potential effectiveness in promoting good community values and the reach of the project in the community. Jonathan's winning project was a Web site, Elder Care: Caring for Those Who Cared for Us, that promotes the value to the community of taking care of the elderly. The Web site can be found at the Home Education Exchange site. As a grand prize winner, Jonathan will receive an Apple iBook Computer. In addition, the Computer Learning Foundation awards a prize to the winner and the winner's school, so the Shoreline Public Schools will also receive a new iBook Computer. "We encourage our students to take an active role in improving their community," said Dr. Holayter. "We are extremely proud of Jonathan's achievement and to have him in our community."