Contact:
Pete
Richie
Community
Relations Manager
Barnes
and Noble Calhoun Village
3216 W.
Lake Street, Minneapolis MN 55416
(612)
922-3238
BARNES & NOBLE LAUNCHES ANNUAL
“MY FAVORITE TEACHER” CONTEST
“MY FAVORITE TEACHER” CONTEST
Middle & High School Students Nominate Their
Teachers
Winners to be Awarded $5,000 Cash Prizes, NOOK® eReaders and More
Minneapolis 1/27/2013 - Barnes
& Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), one of
the nation’s largest booksellers and the leading retailer of content, digital
media and educational products, announced the start of the 2014 “Barnes &
Noble My Favorite Teacher Contest.” The Barnes & Noble My Favorite
Teacher program provides middle and high school students with the opportunity
to tell their communities how much they appreciate their teachers.
Teachers from grades 1 through 12 are eligible for nomination. Awards
include cash prizes for the teachers and schools, NOOKs and more. The
contest is broken down into local and regional winners, from which the
Barnes & Noble Teacher of the Year will be chosen.
Middle and high school students
can nominate their teacher by writing essays, poems or thank you letters that
share how their teacher has influenced their life and why they appreciate and
admire their teacher. Participating schools collect the essays and submit
them to the Calhoun Village Barnes & Noble store for consideration.
Entries will be judged on the compelling nature of the teacher’s qualities, the
sincerity of the student’s appreciation and the quality of expression and
writing.
The local winning teacher will be
recognized at an event at the Calhoun Village Barnes & Noble at 3216 West
Lake Street where they will receive a special award acknowledging their
achievement and additional recognition and praise from their community. The
student who wrote the winning essays or poems will receive a certificate of
recognition and will be honored at the Calhoun Village store during a ceremony
for the winning teacher.
The winning teacher from
MInneapolis will be entered into the regional contest. Each regional
winner will receive a NOOK and a $500 Barnes & Noble Gift Card.
From the pool of regional winners, Barnes & Noble will name one teacher the
Barnes & Noble National Teacher of the Year. The winning teacher will
receive $5,000 and the title of “My Favorite Teacher.” The winner will be
recognized at a special community celebration at their local Barnes & Noble
store. The winning teacher’s school will receive $5,000.
“The Barnes & Noble My
Favorite Teacher Contest is just one more way for Barnes & Noble and the
community to recognize how important teachers can be in their students’ lives,”
said Pete Richie Community Relations Manager. “A gesture as simple and
pure as a child writing kind words about their teacher and reading it aloud to
them at a My Favorite Teacher celebration often prompts tears among many involved.
A bookstore is much like a school-both are places of learning and aspirations.
And Barnes & Noble has always supported education through our Bookfairs,
and B&N Educator Program, offering educators 20% off all purchases for
classroom use and 25% on classroom and personal purchases during the Barnes
& Noble Educator Appreciation Weeks. The B&N@School section in
our stores provides educational tools for parents, teachers and librarians.”
The Barnes & Noble My
Favorite Teacher ends March 1, 2014. Only middle and high school students
and active teachers employed in elementary, middle or high schools in the
United States are eligible to win. More details on the contest rules can
be found at www.bn.com/myfavoriteteacher
<http://www.bn.com/myfavoriteteacher>.
Students who want to participate
should submit their essay or poem to Pete Richie at the Calhoun Village Barnes
and Noble by March 1, 2014.
About Barnes
& Noble, Inc.
Barnes
& Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS) is a Fortune 500 company and the leading retailer
of content, digital media and educational products. The company operates
673 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 50 states, and one of the Web’s largest
e-commerce sites, BN.com (www.bn.com <http://www.bn.com>).
Its NOOK Media LLC subsidiary is a leader in the emerging digital reading and
digital education markets. The NOOK digital business offers award-winning
NOOK® products and an expansive
collection of digital reading and entertainment content through the NOOK Store® (www.nook.com <http://www.nook.com>),
while Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC operates 695 bookstores
serving over 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and
universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble is proud to be named
a J.D. Power and Associates 2012 Customer Service Champion and is only one of
50 U.S. companies so named. Barnes & Noble.com is ranked the number
one online retailer in customer satisfaction in the book, music and video
category and a Top 10 online retailer overall in customer satisfaction
according to ForeSee E-Retail Satisfaction Index (Spring Top 100 Edition).
General
information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by
visiting the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com <http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com>.
Barnes
& Noble #2516
3216 West
Lake Street
Minneapolis,
Minnesota 55416
612-922-3238
(Phone)
612-922-3831
(Fax)
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