Cisco Announces 1996 Virtual Schoolhouse Grants Recipients

Business Wire, June 11, 1996

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 1996--Continuing its commitment to help schools connect to the Internet, Cisco Systems, Inc. today announced 150 recipients of the 1996 Virtual Schoolhouse Grants.

The awards were announced at the National Education Computing Conference and recognize each school's efforts and vision to use the Internet in innovative ways to improve curriculum in its classrooms.

Cisco awarded grants to the following 150 schools from 49 states. The grants will enable these schools to enjoy Internet benefits such as access to libraries throughout the world, aid in research projects and cross-cultural studies, and the ability to exchange ideas and studies with their peers. -0-

Alaska Government Hill Elementary School, Anchorage Houston Junior/Senior High School, Big Lake Joy Elementary School, Fairbanks Homer Junior High School, Homer Palmer High School, Palmer

Alabama Crestline Elementary School, Birmingham

Arkansas Hampton Public Schools, Hampton

Arizona Oak Creek School, Cottonwood Ironwood School, Phoenix

California, School of the Madeleine, Berkeley Palomar High School, Chula Vista South Pointe Middle School, Diamond Bar Glenoaks Elementary School, Glendale Patrick Henry Middle School, Grenada Hills Sycamore Middle School, Gridley Miles Avenue Elementary School, Huntington Park Saint Simon School, Los Altos Alexander Hamilton High Schools Complex, Los Angeles Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles Pilgrim School, Los Angeles Susan M. Dorsey High School, Los Angeles Theodore Roosevelt High School, Los Angeles Los Arboles Middle School, Marina St. Joseph Elementary School, Mountain View Gledhill Street School, North Hills Frank Junior High School, Oxnard Harrington School, Oxnard Lemonwood School, Oxnard Rose Avenue School, Oxnard Mayfield Senior School, Pasadena Imperial Beach Elementary School, San Diego Park Village Elementary School, San Diego Edenvale Elementary School, San Jose Paloma Elementary School, San Marcos Sanger High School, Sanger Miller Elementary School, Santa Maria William Laird Adam School, Santa Maria Southgate High School, Southgate Herrick Avenue School, Sylmar C.J. Morris School, Walnut Starlight Elementary School, Watsonville Willits High School, Willits

Colorado Summit Elementary School, Divide Lesher Junior High School, Fort Collins

Connecticut Killingly High School, Danielson

Washington, District of Columbia Archbishop Carroll High School Georgetown Day School Sheridan School

Florida Westwood Middle School, Gainesville Westside Skills Center, Jacksonville Key Largo School, Key Largo Hobbs Middle School, Milton Palm Harbor University High School, Palm Harbor Pinellas Technical Education Centers, Saint Petersburg Tarpon Springs High School, Tarpon Springs

Georgia Westside Elementary School, Cedartown Dade Elementary School, Trenton

Hawaii EleUele Elementary School, EleUele, Kauai

Idaho New Plymouth Middle School, New Plymouth Madison Middle School, Rexburg

Illinois Buffalo Grove High School, Buffalo Grove Kenwood Academy, Chicago Channing Elementary School, Elgin Glenbrook Elementary School, Elgin La Salle Public Elementary School, La Salle Mahomet-Seymour Junior High School, Mahomet Waukegan High School, Waukegan Wheeling High School, Wheeling

Indiana Kendallville Central Middle School, Kendallville Munster High School, Munster Wilbur Wright Middle School, Munster Peru High School, Peru Plainfield School, Plainfield

Iowa Denison Community Schools, Denison Maharishi School, Fairfield Spirit Lake High School, Spirit Lake

Kansas Overbrook Elementary School, Overbrook

Kentucky Henry Clay High School, Lexington

Louisiana Metairie Park Country Day School, Metairie

Maine Polland Community School, Poland

Maryland Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore Fort Garrison Elementary School, Baltimore Hereford High School, Parkton Archbishop Spalding High School, Severn

Massachusetts Lexington High School, Lexington Tisbury School, Vinyard Haven

Michigan Holy Family Regional School, Rochester Hills

Minnesota Wadena-Deer Creek High School, Wadena

Missouri Chillicothe High School, Chillicothe

Mississippi Vardaman High School, Vardaman

Montana Radley Elementary School, East Helena

Nebraska Scribner-Snyder Community School, Scribner

Nevada Advanced Technologies Academy, Las Vegas Silverado High School, Las Vegas

New Hampshire John Stark Regional High School, Weare

New Jersey Hunterdon Central Regional High School, Flemington Indian Mills Memorial School, Shamong Lincoln/Roosevelt School, Succasunna

New Mexico La Cueva High School, Albuquerque Zia Elementary School, Albuquerque Zia Intermediate School, Artesia Lindsey Middle School, Portales

New York Canajoharie High School, Canajoharie Joseph Pulitzer Intermediate School 145, Jackson Heights Public School 2, Jackson Heights Public School 76, Long Island City Public School 84 Queens, Long Island City Hunter College High School, New York Inwood Intermediate School, New York Plainedge Schools, North Massapequa Oswego City Schools, Oswego Edgemont Junior/Senior High School, Scarsdale Tully Elementary School, Tully