ADDING MULTIMEDIA: In Celebration of Its 20-Year Anniversary Pizza Hut BOOK IT! Program Awards Winning Elementary Classroom with $20,000, School-Wide Pizza Party and Nickelodeon's Green Slime.DALLAS -- Holly Springs Holly Springs is the name of some places in the United States of America:
The nation's largest reading incentive program, BOOK IT!(R), created and sponsored by Pizza Hut(R), today announced the fifth-grade class of Holly Springs Elementary in Pickens, SC as the winner of its nation-wide "Happy 20th Birthday BOOK IT!" contest. The grand prize? Money, pizza and Nickelodeon's green slime Green slime may refer to:
EST abbr. electroshock therapy the school will receive a $20,000 check to be used exclusively for the school library, a school-wide Pizza Hut pizza party and a special recognition event featuring the Nickelodeon Game Lab complete with a sliming of Holly Springs Elementary principal, Donna Harden hard·en v. hard·ened, hard·en·ing, hard·ens v.tr. 1. To make hard or harder. 2. To enable to withstand physical or mental hardship. 3. . The "Happy 20th Birthday BOOK IT!" contest was open to all 900,000 participating BOOK IT! classrooms across the country. Students were asked to submit a creative birthday wish for BOOK IT!. Among the thousands of entries were creative songs, videos, quilts, cards, murals and collages. However, the fifth grade class at Holly Springs Elementary took the grand prize with their video submission of the class performing medley med·ley n. pl. med·leys 1. An often jumbled assortment; a mixture: "That night he dreamed he was traveling in a foreign country, only it seemed to be a medley of all the countries he'd ever been to and of songs such as Aretha Franklin's "Respect" and Queen's "We Will Rock You." The class creatively changed the words to each of the songs to celebrate BOOK IT! and reading. "We received so many great entries, but we were blown away by the creativity and spunk of the fifth graders at Holly Springs Elementary," said Leslie Tubbs, director of the BOOK IT! Program. "It was evident that this is a bright group of students who really wanted to win the $20,000, Pizza Hut pizza and of course, wanted to slime their principal." "I can't even begin to tell you what the $20,000 for our school library will mean to Holly Springs Elementary. We are so excited to win this contest and I'm even thrilled to be slimed," said Donna Harden, Principal, Holly Springs Elementary. "These students really took the contest seriously and we're so proud of them for winning the grand prize!" "We're so excited to celebrate 20 years of motivating students to read more. We have had a great relationship with teachers and principals for two decades and we wouldn't have anything to celebrate without their hard work and commitment to reading," said Tubbs. "We couldn't think of a better way to celebrate 20 years of BOOK IT! than with $20,000 for a school library." A video news release of the today's event will be available at: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 -- 4:30-4:45 PM ET Tuesday, November 16, 2004 -- 7:30-7:45 PM ET Wednesday, November 17, 2004 -- 10:00-10:15 AM ET (Coordinates the same for all feeds) Galaxy 3 (c-band) Transponder 6, Downlink Transmitting from a satellite to an earth station. Contrast with uplink. 3820 (V) Audio 6.2 & 6.8 About BOOK IT!(R) BOOK IT!, exclusively sponsored by Pizza Hut, is a six-month program launched in 1985 and has for 20 years been the nation's largest reading incentive program. In 2003-04 BOOK IT! reached 900,000 classrooms and 22 million K-6 students in 50,000 schools - or nearly 65 percent of all U.S. elementary schools elementary school: see school. . A second program, BOOK IT! Beginners(R), was launched in 1998 as a two-month read-aloud program for preschool and pre-kindergarten children. It reached 1.7 million children in 35,000 facilities this year - approximately 30 percent of all licensed childcare facilities in America. Since 1985, Pizza Hut has given away 192 million free Personal Pan Pizza(R) certificates to school children across the country as rewards for accomplishing their reading goals. For more information about BOOK IT! and BOOK IT! Beginners, call 1-800-4-BOOKIT or visit www.bookitprogam.com. About Pizza Hut Pizza Hut Inc., a subsidiary of YUM! Brands Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) or Yum! is a Fortune 500 corporation, that operates or licenses A&W (excluding Canada), KFC, Long John Silver's, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell restaurants worldwide. Based in Louisville, Kentucky, it is the world's largest quick-service (a.k.a. , Inc (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : YUM YUM The ISO 4217 currency code for the Yugoslavia New Dinar. ), is the world's largest pizza restaurant company with more than 6,600 units in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and more than 4,000 units in 100 other countries. The company is the recognized leader in the $37 billion pizza category. Those hungry for more information can go to the official Pizza Hut Web site at www.pizzahut.com. |
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