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Just received word on this...worth looking into as we had been awarded $2,500 in both 2004 and 2006 to buy gear for Adobe Visual Communicator uses:

TO: Past Teach Award applicants and winners

SUBJECT: Best Buy Announces New Teach @15 Grants for Schools

Best Buy Teach Awards change to Teach@15 Awards - $1500 Awarded Every 15 Days

Best Buy is proud to announce the Teach@15 Award program - a new program to help schools serving students in grades 7-12 meet their technology needs. As past participants in the Best Buy Teach Award program we wanted you to be the first to hear about this exciting new funding opportunity.

Teach@15 is a feature of Best Buy's philanthropic focus on teens called @15 - our commitment to fuel teens' power to create positive change in their communities. That's why teens are the ones with the power to nominate and vote for the Teach@15 schools. The whole process is in the hands of teens, which means less work for teachers and school administrators, because there are no grant applications for you to complete. All you need to do is encourage your teen students (ages 13-18) to register online today at at15.com and nominate your school.

Teens (age 13-18) who are registered members ("Members") can nominate their schools (depending on eligibility) to win a Teach@15 Award. Teen members can vote once a day for 15 days for one nomination. Every 15 days, Best Buy will award 3 schools with Best Buy Gift Cards based on member votes. The school with the most votes will win $1,500, second most votes wins $1,000 and third most votes wins $500.

To learn more about Teach@15 visit at15.com/teach.

As a 2004 and 2006 recipient of $2,500 Best Buy grants, I was very excited to hear about yet another grant opportunity from the Best Buy folks.  They truly are dedicated to education!

I received this email I'd like to share with you all:

"Best Buy is proud to announce the Teach@15 Award program - a new program to help schools serving students in grades 7-12 meet their technology needs. As past participants in the Best Buy Teach Award program we wanted you to be the first to hear about this exciting new funding opportunity.

Teach@15 is a feature of Best Buy's philanthropic focus on teens called @15 - our commitment to fuel teens' power to create positive change in their communities. That's why teens are the ones with the power to nominate and vote for the Teach@15 schools. The whole process is in the hands of teens, which means less work for teachers and school administrators, because there are no grant applications for you to complete. All you need to do is encourage your teen students (ages 13-18) to register online today at www.at15.com and nominate your school.

Nominations from registered @15 members are now being accepted, and will continue to be accepted all year long. Starting March 15, 2009 and every 15 days thereafter, teen Members will be able to vote once a day for a previously nominated school. Every 15 days, Best Buy will award $1500 (in the form of Best Buy Gift Cards) to the school with the most votes.

To learn more about Teach@15 program rules, click here.

As members of www.at15.com , teens also become part of the Change Exchange and can decide how Best Buy will donate $1 million to nonprofit organizations."