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News Briefs - CDWG and Discovery Channel School

  • 04/01/04

CDW•G and Discovery Channel School have partnered for the second Win a Wireless Lab Sweepstakes, which is open to any U.S. K-12 educator. Teachers, district administrators and school IT coordinators have until May 15 to enter the contest by visiting www.discoveryschool.com/cdwg. The grand prize winner will receive an IBM wireless computer lab, which consists of a mobile cart with 20 notebook computers. Four additional winners will receive printers and projectors from Hewlett-Packard, networking products from D-Link, and curriculum materials from the Discovery Channel School library. In conjunction with the sweepstakes, Discovery Channel School is offering free teacher resource kits, which are available for download at www.discoveryschool.com.

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