Send us a photo of your decked-out house and you could win $500 for your electricity bills and $100,000 for the school district.
Did you decorate your house for the holidays this year? Enter our "Deck the House" contest and you could win $100,000 for your local school district and $500 to pay your electric bills!
We’re launching our annual Deck the House Contest to find the most over-the-top holiday decorations in America—the best “decked” house in the country—the one home so spectacularly decorated that everyone in town jokes your holiday decorations could rival Rockefeller Center’s. If this sounds like your house, upload a photo or video of your home to our contest page from Nov. 26 to Dec. 16. Only residents of Patch towns are eligible to enter. We’ll select 24 regional finalists, and from them, pick one grand prize winner. Patch will pay up to $500 of the utility bill for each finalist, while our national winner will have $100,000 donated to his or her local school district. Our contest is right around the corner, so now’s the time to get your …
A West Roxbury home is one of 24 national finalists in Patch's Deck the House contest. Vote now, vote often and let's bring home $100,000 for Boston Public Schools!
You can help Boston Public Schools win $100,000! Just click on this link and vote for Richie DiSalvo's West Roxbury home in Patch's nationwide Deck the House contest. Contestants across the country submitted photos and videos of their homes decked out for the holidays. Patch selected 24 national finalists and the West Roxbury home pictured above is the only contestant in the BPS district. Starting today through Jan. 8 you will be able to vote for the Best Decked House in all of Patch. The grand prize winner’s school district will receive a $100,000 check from Patch!! Post this article on your Facebook account, tweet it and send it around. What better way to start the new year than to help our schools win $100,000!
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Patch's "Deck The House" contest is giving away serious dough to the winner's public school district, and Boston teachers already have ways they could spend the money.
It may be the holiday season currently, but Boston Public School teachers have been making their list and checking it twice for quite some time. Since Patch is giving away $100,000 through its Deck The House contest, we wanted to see what teachers in Boston could do with the money if a Boston resident won. Some teachers have requests for a single item, like Boston Renaissance Charter Public School 5th grade teacher Kathy Reilly's request for a video camera on iLoveSchools.com (the camera costs $453.19), a request she makes to help her students bring fairytales they are writing to life. Others have smaller requests, like Sarah Peteraf, who teaches 7th grade mathematics at the Edwards Middle School in Charlestown. Her list on Classwish.…
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Kasey Hariman
11:57 am on Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Here's the timer she's specifically referring to: http://classwish.org/wishes/6678-School-Smart-Overhead-Timer My guess is that the advantages of the timer are that it's big enough for everyone to see, but, you're right, if she does have a computer or an iPad that's not in use, that everyone can see, she could just use the online timer. But she may not have those things. I know I depend on http… more ›