Adelphia and ESPN Award Scholarship to Mission Hills Student.Business Editors & Education Writers MISSION HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2000 Semi-finalist Demonstrates Math and Physics Skills in First-of-Its-Kind Cable in the Classroom Initiative What do Math and Physics Have to do With Sports? Everything! Nina Tioleco of Mission Hills, Calif., has been named one of only eight national semi-finalist winners in the Adelphia and ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network SportsFigures Knowledge for College Challenge. Tioleco will receive a $1,000 scholarship. The Challenge asked high schoolers to demonstrate an understanding of how math and physics are a critical part of all sports. More than 120 cities participated with local cable operators inviting more than 1,600 high schools to offer the Challenge to their students. Adelphia and ESPN teamed up to institute this innovative educational effort, based on the popular ESPN SportsFigures commercial-free weekly series. Together, the companies are offering scholarships to the winners and media equipment to their schools. "We are proud to have helped bring such a positive program like this to our community," said Bill Rosendahl Bill Rosendahl is a Los Angeles City Councilman, representing Council District 11, including the communities of Brentwood, Del Rey, Mar Vista, Marina del Rey, Pacific Palisades, Palms, Playa del Rey, Playa Vista, Venice, West Los Angeles and Westchester. , Vice President of Operations, Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Region. "This is just one more way we're trying to show how cable TV makes a difference here and throughout America." Currently Tioleco is completing the essay portion of the Challenge -- creating a new sport and using math and physics to explain it. With the completed submission, she will either be selected as a First Prize winner or the Grand Prize winner. Seven First Prize winners will receive a $2,500 scholarship as well as $1,000 in new media equipment for their schools. One of the semi-finalists will be chosen as the Grand Prize $10,000 scholarship winner and qualify his or her school for a donation of $5,000 in new media equipment. These awards are an extension of Adelphia's continuing efforts to bring innovative Cable in the Classroom programs to local schools. ESPN SportsFigures, presented weekly during the school year and commercial-free on ESPN2, uses sports and athletes to demonstrate math and physics concepts to high school students. Designed as a teaching tool and hosted by high school teachers (grades 9 to 12), the program airs Mondays at 5:30 a.m. Among top athletes who have appeared on SportsFigures are Derek Jeter  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled until (UTC) due to vandalism. , Tiger Woods  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled. , Julie Foudy Julie Maurine Foudy (born 23 January 1971 in San Diego, California) was a midfielder for the United States women's national soccer team from 1987 through 2004, finishing with a remarkable 271 caps. and Steve Young.
Cable in the Classroom, a non-profit service of the cable industry supported by 41 national cable networks and more than 8,500 cable companies, provides schools with more than $2 million of educational resources every week. Free cable connections and 540 hours per month of commercial-free educational programming are made available to schools across the country. About Adelphia Currently servicing more than 800,000 households throughout Southern California, Adelphia provides a full range of public affairs programming
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