Teachers that are accepted into the Connections program will receive products for their schools donated by the following companies:

SMART Technologies
SMART Technologies is the founder of the SMARTer Kids Foundation. SMART donates a SMART Board 580 interactive whiteboard, a Floor Stand 570 and SMART Ideas concept-mapping software to each school in Connections. SMART has provided its support for Connections since the program’s inception in 1999.

SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard and Floor Stand
As the leading interactive whiteboard in education, the SMART Board interactive whiteboard enables teachers to create visual and interactive lessons that involve the whole class. It works with a computer and projector to provide control of projected applications and multimedia materials directly from the whiteboard's touch-sensitive surface. With the SMART Board interactive whiteboard, teachers and students can write over top of computer images and save their notes to review, edit and print later. For more information about the SMART Board interactive whiteboard, visit http://www.smarttech.com/Products/smartboard/index.asp

SMART Ideas Software
SMART Ideas concept-mapping software helps you foster creative, independent thinking in the classroom. Create concept maps to organize ideas, then expand diagrams into multilevels, link to files and Web sites, and save diagrams as HTML files. Featuring a simple, intuitive interface and built-in templates, SMART Ideas software helps students and teachers visually represent information. For more information about SMART ideas concept-mapping software, visit
http://www.smarttech.com/Products/smartideas/index.asp