Lights On After School Event
- October 9, 2003
October 9, 2003, Nortel Networks Kidz
Online hosted a Lights on Afterschool event. Over 5,000
afterschool programs from across the country participated in
the year's Lights On Afterschool event to call attention to the
importance of afterschool programs. Over 120 kids from 8
afterschool programs were bussed to Virginia's Center for
Inovative Technology to participate in the LIVE webcast and
play "Who Wants to be a Multi-Media-aire?" Afterschool Alliance
Executive Director Judy Y. Samelson presided over the event,
Associate Deputy Under Secretarty of the US Dept. of Education
and Wynn Watkins, JC Penney conveyed the importance of
afterschool programs. The Anthony Bowen YMCA Tigers provided
the musical entertainment and Nortel Network's Kidz Online's
Joel Holland hosted the "Multi-Media-aire" show. The
afterschool programs in the studio audience were: Edgewood
Terrace, Buckman Road, Park Montgomery, Stewartown Homes,
Southern Ridge, Anthony Bowen YMCA, Gateway at Southern Ridge,
and Herndon Computer Learning Center.
Lights On After School Event and Nortel Networks Kidz
Online's "Who wants to be a Multi-Media-Naire" game
show.
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