What are the Verizon Tech Savvy Awards? The Verizon Tech Savvy Awards recognize outstanding educational programs that demystify technology for parents so that they may better support their child’s academic and social growth in an increasingly complex 21st century.
Goals of the Verizon Tech Savvy Awards
- To provide an incentive for grassroots, community-based nonprofit organizations, libraries and schools to include information communications technology literacy for parents as a component to enhance existing literacy programming
- To promote and support programming that empowers parents and subsequently their children to utilize technology-based resources and tools for literacy and language learning
- To encourage intergenerational applications of technology that improve the literacy and life skills of both parents and children
- To recognize innovative programming that prepares families for success in the 21st century through the use of digital media
- To help parents be active participants in all facets of their children’s education
The Awards
One national award of $25,000 and four regional awards of $5,000 will be given to organizations that have developed and delivered exemplary programs in information communications technology literacy for parents and children. The awards will be presented at the 2009 National Conference on Family Literacy in Orlando, Florida.Nominate your organization, click here.
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