Samsung Hope For Education
Each year, Samsung’s Hope for Education holds a contest where students from schools nationwide can write a 100-word essay about how technology benefits and helps education.
Entries are open now. Contest will run until August 31, 2008. There is no entry fee
Here’s what is on offer. In 2008, the top winner receives a grand prize of over $200,000 worth of Samsung technology, Microsoft software and cash grants from DIRECTV, as well as the SCHOOL CHOICE® educational television programming package.
Essays are evaluated by an independent judging committee, and winners earn various awards of Samsung products for their designated school.
In the four years since its inception, the program has awarded more than 250 U.S. schools with over $7,000,000 in Samsung electronics and Microsoft software.
Hope for Education was created by Samsung in 2004 to support U.S. schools K-12 with the latest technology products to assist in the educational process. Each year the program challenges students, teachers, parents or anyone who knows of a school in need to write an essay regarding the importance of technology in education, and how it can benefit a school in their community.
