Sun Donates Over $500,000 in Hardware, Software, Training and Support to Local School Districts; Employee Volunteers Lead More Than 30 SmartSchools NetDay '96 Projects.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 1996--Sun Microsystems, Inc., announced today that it has made more than $500,000 in donations to support SmartSchools NetDay '96, a collaborative effort of local companies, government and the community to install advanced computer networks in San Mateo and Santa Clara County schools on March 9. The event is part of the statewide NetDay '96 effort to wire 20 percent of California's schools to the Internet. Through its Open Gateways Program(TM), the Sun Microsystems Foundation, Inc., has made $283,000 in grants of Sun(TM) hardware, software, training and support to 11 school districts in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. The Open Gateways Program is an ongoing effort to give students access to the Internet as well as to create wide area networks in and between school districts. In addition, Sun has donated $200,000 to Smart Valley, the San Jose Education Network and the San Mateo and Santa Clara County Offices of Education to help coordinate and assist with '96 school wiring projects. Sun employee volunteers are leading SmartSchools NetDay '96 wiring projects at 18 schools in Silicon Valley and 17 schools in the greater San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay . To support their efforts, the Sun Microsystems Foundation has awarded twenty-six $1,000 grants to schools championed by employees. Sun has also made certain Sun products available to employees at large discounts. In addition, Sun's Silicon Valley Sales District is offering to schools and school districts discounts of up to 40 percent on selected Sun products. To help teachers integrate the Internet into their classrooms, Sun held a "train-the-trainers" February 24-25 for teachers from Sun-championed NetDay '96 schools at the company's Milpitas campus. Twelve teachers local schools spent two days learning how to browse the World Wide Web and create their own Web pages. Eleven Open Gateways Grants Made to School Districts The Sun Microsystems Foundation issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) in January 1996 for Open Gateways Program grants to school districts in Santa Clara and San Mateo County. Only districts that were participating in SmartSchools Netday '96 planning activities and that were committed to wiring at least two schools were eligible. In keeping with the its giving focus, the Foundation gave priority to districts that have a large population of students who are low-income and/or educationally disadvantaged. Sun also looked for school districts that have made an investment in building and maintaining their networking infrastructure. The foundation has made approximately $283,000 in Open Gateways Program grants to 11 school districts: -- Cambrian Elementary School District -- Campbell Union High School District The Campbell Union High School District, referred to as the CUHSD, is a school district in the greater San Jose, California, USA area, including Campbell and Saratoga. -- Campbell Union Elementary School District -- Cupertino Union School District -- Evergreen School District (software & training only) -- Franklin-McKinley School District The Franklin-McKinley School District operates 14 elementary schools (K-5) and two junior high schools (6-8) in San Jose, California, USA. The district has 505 teachers (FTEs) serving 9953 students. -- Gilroy Unified School District Gilroy Unified School District is located in the southern most tip of Santa Clara Valley, California. The Superintendent of the schools quit in mid year 2006-2007 to take a job in Pasadena. This prompted many students and teachers to quit also. -- Milpitas Unified School District The Milpitas Unified School District operates nine elementary schools (K-6), two junior high schools (7-8), and three high schools (9-12) in Milpitas, California, USA. The district has 438 teachers (FTEs) serving 9516 students. -- Ravenswood City School District The Ravenswood City School District is a public school district in the San Francisco Bay Area serving the communities of East Palo Alto and eastern Menlo Park. Students from this school district who continue on with public schooling matriculate to the Sequoia Union High School (software & training only) -- Santa Clara Unified School District The Santa Clara Unified School District operates sixteen elementary schools (K-5), three middle schools (6-8, unless otherwise noted), three high schools (9-12), and one K-12 school in Santa Clara, California, the Alviso neighborhood of San Jose, and parts of Sunnyvale teaching -- Santa Clara County Office of Education, Alternative Schools Department The grants consist of Sun's Netra(TM) i525 Internet Server, a complete Internet connectivity solution for PC, Macintosh and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) workstation clients on local area networks. Software includes the Solaris(TM) operating environment, Internet and Web server software, Solstice(TM) FireWall-1 network security software and Solstice(TM) AutoClient(TM) system administration software. To help train school district personnel to administer their WANs, Sun is also including several SunEducation system administration training classes and a one-year service contract. Sun employee volunteers will provide ongoing personal assistance to Sun-trained System Administrators, teachers and students through the company's Community Action Volunteer program. Sun Donates $200,000 for SmartSchools NetDay Coordination In November 1995, Sun made four grants totalling $200,000 to help coordinate SmartSchools NetDay '96. A grant of $50,000 was made to Smart Valley, Inc., to coordinate the efforts of private industry. Sun also gave $50,000 to the San Jose Education Network to help school districts develop and fund their technical plans and teacher training. Finally, Sun gave $50,000 each to the San Mateo and Santa Clara County Offices of Education to help them provide technical assistance in network administration to school districts and, if necessary, to provide direct network administration. Internet Will be Continuing Focus for Foundation The Sun Microsystems Foundation's commitment to networking schools predates NetDay '96 and will become the primary focus for Sun's future community investment activities. In addition to donations of cash and products, Sun and its foundation will be expanding the teacher training component of the Open Gateways Program to help schools and teachers integrate technology into their curriculum. The Sun Microsystems Foundation, Inc., is a nonprofit charitable organization formed by Sun in December 1990 as a vehicle to share the company's success with-and support the economic development of-the communities where Sun employees live and work worldwide. With annual revenues of more than $6 billion, Sun Microsystems, Inc., provides products and services that enable customers to build and maintain open network computing See ONC. Open Network Computing - (ONC) Sun's network protocols. environments. Widely recognized as a proponent of open standards, the company is involved in the design, manufacture and sale of products, technologies and services for commercial and technical computing. Sun's SPARC(TM) workstations, multiprocessing servers, SPARC microprocessors, Solaris operating software and ISO-certified service organization each rank No. 1 in the UNIX industry. Sun's Java(TM) programming language provides a comprehensive solution to the challenge of programming for complex networks, including the Internet. Sun Microsystems was founded in 1982, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. . -0- Sun-Championed Schools Participating In Smart Schools-NetDay '96 Below is a list of schools that Sun is sponsoring for SmartSchools NetDay '96. These schools are on this list because a Sun employee has agreed to "champion" them. Campbell Union High School District Del Mar High School Del Mar High School (DMHS) is a four-year, public secondary school located in San Jose, California, which was established in 1959. It is part of the Campbell Union High School District, (CUHSD), the other schools in which are Branham, Leigh, Prospect, and Westmont. East Side Union High School District The East Side High School District operates the following high schools in San Jose, California, USA: School Name Students FTE Teachers Pupil/Teacher Ratio Apollo High School 78 5 15.6 Alternative school East Side Cadet Academy 79 4 19. Andrew Hill High School Andrew Putnam Hill High School is a secondary school located in San Jose, California which educates students in grades 9-12. It is part of the East Side Union High School District (ESUHSD). As of 2007, the school principal is Ms. Bettina Lopez. Independence High School Overfelt High School Silver Creek High School Silver Creek High School may refer to:
Evergreen School District Cadwallader Elementary School Chaboya Middle School Gilroy Unified School District Luigi Apera Elementary School Milpitas Unified School District Milpitas High School Milpitas High School (MHS) is a public four-year comprehensive high school in Milpitas, California, a suburban community adjacent to San Jose. It is one of three high schools in Milpitas. Ravenswood School District Costano Elementary School Brentwood Oaks Elementary School San Carlos School District Brittan Acres Elementary School Central Middle School White Oak Elementary School Santa Clara Unified School District Hughes Elementary School Montague Elementary School Ponderosa Elementary School South San Francisco South San Francisco, city (1990 pop. 54,312), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1908. South San Francisco has several industrial parks; its manufactures include medical supplies and equipment, foods, paint, paper products, consumer goods, and clothing. School District South San Francisco High School Campus South San Francisco High School is composed of four main class buildings, forming campus wings. Two additional wings contain portable classrooms for language and math classes. The "S" wing contains the woods, auto, ceramics, and art shops. Sun-Championed Schools Participating In The Statewide NetDay '96 Effort Below is a list of "Sun-championed" schools participating in the statewide NetDay '96 effort (i.e., schools that are not participating in the SmartSchools NetDay effort or that are outside Santa Clara and San Mateo counties). These schools are on this list because a Sun employee has agreed to "champion" them. Cupertino Bethel Lutheran School Fremont School District Gomes Elementary School Hopkins Junior High School  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. Mission San Jose High School Mission San Jose High School (MSJHS or just MSJ), one of five Fremont, California, USA public high schools, was opened in 1964. The school, located in the district of Mission San Jose, is known for strong academics, sending 95% of its graduates to post-secondary Los Altos St. Simon School Mountain View Graham Middle School Newark Bunker Elementary School San Francisco Archbishop Riordan High School Archbishop Riordan High School is an Archdiocesan, all-boys Catholic high school run by members of the Society of Mary in San Francisco, California. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco. Rooftop Alternative Elementary School San Mateo Bowditch Middle School St. Gregory School San Ramon Vista Grande Elementary School Santa Cruz Mission Hill Junior High School Santa Cruz High School Santa Cruz High School in Santa Cruz, California, opened around 1911. Santa Cruz High School is a comprehensive public school for grades nine through twelve, and has an enrollment of approximately 1,300 students. Saratoga Marshall Lane Elementary School San Jose Achiever Christian Elementary School Sunnyvale St. Martin School -0- Note to Editors: Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Open Gateways Program, The Network is the Computer, Netra, Solaris, Solstice, Solstice AutoClient and Java are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc., in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, exclusively licensed through X/Open Company, Ltd. FireWall-1 is a trademark of CheckPoint Software, Technologies, Ltd., used under license by SunSoft, Inc. Press announcements and other information about Sun Microsystems are available on the Internet via the World Wide Web using a tool such as Netscape or NCSA Mosaic. Type http://www.sun.com at the URL prompt. CONTACT: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Cynthia Gentry, 415/336-0571 - Office 408/391-1486 - Cellular |
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