SUPERCOMM Presents Grant Awards to Atlanta Area High Schools At SUPERStudies Awards Luncheon

Business Wire, June 7, 2001

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

SUPERCOMM 2001

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2001

SUPERCOMM presented three grants totaling $45,000 to Atlanta area high schools for their winning curriculum proposals at the SUPERStudies Awards Luncheon.

The winners were Alexander High School, Union Grove High School and Mount Zion High School.

Alexander High School was the first place winner of a SUPERStudies Award. Union Grove High School and Mount Zion High School were second and third place winners, respectively. The SUPERStudies program is designed to encourage and support educators who develop innovative and imaginative teaching techniques that create interest among students in communications technology through math or science classes.

The grant program was initiated by SUPERCOMM's co-owners, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and the United States Telecom Association (USTA), in 1998.

Alexander High School plans to use its grant to research air pollution west of Atlanta by collecting and sharing data over the Internet. Union Grove High School will use its grant to enhance its mathematics program by providing students with access to technologies, including the use of computers, up-to-date interactive software, e-mail and the Internet.

Mount Zion High School will apply its grant to building a school science Web site aimed at middle and elementary schools. The Web site will communicate the exciting possibilities awaiting the students in high school.

Sponsors of the SUPERStudies Awards include: Alloptic, Bechtel Communications, ECI Telecom/ENAUIS, The Freeman Companies, Hive4telecom.com, Opthos, Inc., SMS, Inc., Sumitomo Electric Lightwave, USTA, TIA and White Rock Networks.

SUPERCOMM, http://www.supercomm2001.com, is the premier annual communications and information technology exhibition and conference. It is owned jointly by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), http://www.tiaonline.org, Arlington, Va., and the United States Telecom Association (USTA), http://www.usta.org, Washington, DC.