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National Winner:
Boston Digital Bridge Foundation -- Technology Goes Home @ School Program
Dorchester, MA
Technology Goes Home @ School (TGH) teaches families and students how to use technology and how to integrate it into everyday activities. Students and their parents or caregivers work together to complete specialized technology training provided by the child's teacher. This training takes place in the home, either after school or on Saturdays, to ensure consistent communication and regular collaboration. To date, the program has helped more than 800 families after expanding to serve all public schools in the Boston area. For more information, visit
http://www.cityofboston.gov/bra/digitalbridge/index.html

East Region Winner:
Computers for Youth Foundation -- Take IT Home Program
New York, NY
Computers for Youth Foundation's Take IT Home Program, in New York, N.Y., helps low-income students do better academically by improving their learning environment at home. Specifically, CFY provides innovative technology (top-notch educational software loaded onto refurbished computers) in conjunction with family training. CFY has shown significant results on student test scores, class effort and parental confidence in helping thier children learn. Since beginning operations in 1999, they have reached more than 25,000 students and parents from 40 schools in New York, Philadelphia and Atlanta. For more information, visit http://www.cfy.org

Midwest Region Winner:
National Institute on Media and the Family -- Through-u-Families Become MediaWise(R)
Minneapolis, MN
Through-u-Families Become MediaWise(R) is the National Institute on Media and the Family's early childhood program. It provides cutting-edge resources and education to parents and caregivers about the impact of current media trends on children's health, behavior, pre-literacy skills and school readiness. The Through-u Program educates parents and caregivers on popular technology for children and families, broadening their understanding of what it means to live in a media-saturated world. Parents tap into their own creativity when implementing media activities that are sensory and cerebral for children. For more information, visit http://www.mediafamily.org/earlychild/index.shtml

Mountain/Southwest Region Winner:
Pima Community College Foundation -- Family TEC (Technical Education Curriculum)
Tucson, AZ
Family TEC (Technical Education Curriculum) has been instrumental in bridging the gap between adults' and children's understanding and use of technology. Teachers integrate technology instruction into all program components. Basic technology skills are taught through creative, student- and staff-generated projects, including: newsletters, table and graph creation to track reading, yearbook and book creation, and internet research projects. Digital storytelling is one of the primary, technology-based interactions between parents and children offered by Family TEC. For more information, visit http://cc.pima.edu/~sdahlen/

West/Northwest Region Winner:
Santa Barbara Partners in Education -- Computers for Families
Santa Barbara, CA
Computers for Families (CFF) increases tech familiarity by introducing computers with Internet connection to fourth grade students and their families, and by working with teachers in 30 schools in Southern Santa Barbara County to ensure technology is being used effectively in the classroom and at home. By assigning students technology-based homework, students share with their parents what they are learning in school, thus engaging in a traditional family literacy learning model. For more information, visit
http://www.sbceo.org/~sbceocff