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Contact:

Courtney Taylor
317-617-1418
courtney.taylor@mybrighthouse.com

MOMENTUM GROWS FOR BRIGHT HOUSE NETWORKS

BRIGHT IDEAS STEM FROM TODAYS YOUTH
COMPETITION
More Than 120 Community Friends of STEM Encourage
High School Students to Innovate
Indianapolis (August 26, 2015) Communities throughout Bright House Networks service areas
are championing its Bright Ideas STEM from Todays Youth, a multi-state competition where high
school students dream up the coolest inventions to make their own life, community or even the
world, more awesomeand show how STEM thats science, technology, engineering and math,
can bring their idea to life. Bright House Networks is pleased to announce that it currently has more
than 120 Community Friends of STEM on board to help support the second year of its Bright Ideas
program, which cultivates the changes our local youth can inspire and encourages their creativity to
develop new ideas.
Bright House Networks Community Friends of STEM lend their support for and help promote the
contest, and foster school and student participation. The list of Friends includes businesses and
nonprofits throughout Bright House Networks service areas who work directly with the company
to engage student innovators and encourage them to submit their Bright Ideas . (A full list of
Community Friends of STEM is detailed in the below addendum.)
Entries for Bright Ideas STEM from Todays Youth are being accepted through January 4, 2016 at
the programs website, www.brighthouse.com/brightideas.
The competition is open to all high school students who are at least 14 years old as of the date of
entry and who attend a public, private, parochial school, or are home-schooled within a Bright
House Networks service area. Students will be able to compete as individuals or as part of a team
of two. Six lucky finalists will be chosen, one from each of Bright House Networks service areas.
These students will travel to Orlando, Fla., where they will compete head-to-head on TV, in front of
a studio audience and a panel of experts. One lucky Grand Prize Winner will be selected and will
have the opportunity to work with a leading innovation firm to build a virtual prototype and a
business plan.

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We are thrilled with the overwhelming community support we have received for our Bright Ideas
STEM from Todays Youth program, said Kimberly Maki, corporate vice president, corporate
communications and public relations, Bright House Networks. Our Friends help to raise awareness
about STEMs critical role in educating our youth for tomorrow, and we are appreciative of all who
have signed on so far for the second year of this program.
Bright House Networks welcomes additional local businesses, nonprofits or individuals who have
an education, entrepreneurship or innovation background to become a Friend of STEM. To access
the most up-to-date information visit www.brighthouse.com/brightideas. For a look at the 2015
competition, view the three minute video recap.
More information is available online about all of Bright House Networks educational initiatives,
including its Future Leaders Scholarship program and Classroom Innovators Grant program at
www.brighthouse.com/about/about-us/community.

About Bright House Networks

Bright House Networks is the sixth largest owner and operator of cable systems in the U.S.
and the second largest in Florida, with technologically advanced systems located in five
states including Florida, Alabama, Indiana, Michigan and California and two of the top 20
DMAs. Bright House Networks serves approximately 2.5 million customers who subscribe
to one or more of its video, high-speed data, home security and automation and voice
services. Bright House Networks Business Solutions offers a strong portfolio of video,
voice, data, and cloud-based solutions to the small and medium business segments. In
addition, Bright House Networks Enterprise Solutions provides advanced, fiber-based
telecommunication services to key industry verticals in the mid-market and carrier
segments, including cloud-based hosted voice, managed security, and cell backhaul to
wireless carriers. The company is Cisco Master Service Provider-certified under the Cisco
Cloud and Managed Service Program, the first cable operator in the United States to
achieve this designation. Bright House Networks also owns and operates exclusive, awardwinning, local news and sports channels in its Florida markets. For more information about
Bright House Networks, or our products and services, visit brighthouse.com.

Contact:

Courtney Taylor

317-617-1418

courtney.taylor@mybrighthouse.com

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Community Friends of STEM (as of 08.24.15)

A Gift for Teaching

AMIKids
Anna Maria Island Chamber of Commerce
Art With A Heart
Auburndale Chamber of Commerce
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Sun Coast
Blossom Montessori School for the Death
School District of Manatee County
Boys & Girls Club of Central Florida
Boys & Girls Club of Tampa Bay
Boys & Girls Club of Volusia / Flagler Counties
Boys & Girls Clubs of Manatee
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Suncoast
Boys and Girls Club of Kern County
Bradenton Area Economic Development Council
Brady Media Inc.
Brandon Chamber of Commerce
Brevard Schools Foundation
CareerSource
Central Florida Brazilian American Chamber of
Commerce
Central Florida Council, Boy Scouts of America
Central Florida Disability Chamber of Commerce
Central Florida YMCA
Citrus County Education Foundation
Clearwater Regional Chamber of Commerce
Codecraft Lab
Collegiate Pathways - Tech Sassy Girlz
Computer Mentors Group Inc.
Craig Technologies
Daytona Regional Chamber of Commerce
Division of Youth Services, City of Birmingham
Dunedin Chamber of Commerce
Early Childhood Education Association
Early Learning Coalition of Manatee County
Education Foundation of Osceola County
Family, Career and Community Leaders of
America
Flagler Broadcasting
Flagler County Education Foundation
Florida Afterschool Network
Future Builders Association
Future Business Leaders of America
Future Farmers of America
Futures Foundation for Volusia County Schools
Girl Scouts of Gulfcoast Florida

Indiana Cable Telecommunications

Association
Innovation Lab
IPS Education Foundation
Junior Achievement of Central Florida
Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay
Junior Achievement of the Space Coast
Kern County Black Chamber of Commerce
Kern County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Kern County Science Foundation
Kern Economic Development Corporation
Lakeland Area Chamber of Commerce
Latina Leaders of Kern County
Livonia Chamber of Commerce
Manatee Chamber of Commerce
Manatee County Public Library System
Manatee Education foundation
Manatee Educational Television
Manatee PACE Center for Girls
Manatee Technical College
Manatee Technology Student Association
Melbourne Main Street
Melbourne Regional Chamber of East Central
Florida
Museum of Science and Industry
Net Literacy
New Port Richey Library
NEXTGEN Family Magazine
North of the River Chamber of Commerce
Orlando After-School All-Stars
Orlando Economic Development Commission
Orlando Science Center
Osceola YMCA
Oviedo- Winter Springs Regional Chamber of
Commerce
Palm Bay Chamber of Commerce
Pasco Education Foundation
Pinellas County PTA
Pinellas County Schools
Pinellas Education Foundation
Plainfield Chamber of Commerce
Polk Education Foundation
R'Club Child Care, Inc.
Science Olympiad
Seminole Chamber of Commerce
Seminole County Public Schools
Seminole County Regional Chamber of

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Girl Scouts of West Central Florida

Girls Inc of Winter Haven
Girls Inc. of Pinellas County
Good Day Carmel
Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce
Greater Dade City Chamber of Commerce
Greater Farmington Area Chamber of Commerce
Greater Palm Harbor Area Chamber of
Commerce
Greater Riverview Chamber of Commerce
Greater Winter Haven Chamber of Commerce
Gulf Coast Latin Chamber of Commerce
Haines City- Northeast Polk County Chamber of
Commerce
Health Occupations Students of America
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metro
Orlando
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Tampa Bay
Improvement League Plant City
Indiana Afterschool Network

Commerce
SKILLS USA
South Florida Museum
Southeast Volusia Chamber of Commerce
St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce
St. Stephen's Episcopal School
Tampa Bay Beaches Chamber of Commerce
Tampa Bay Technology Forum
Tech Data Corporation
Technology Student Association
Techpoint Foundation for Youth
The Greater Wesley Chapel Chamber of
Commerce
Titusville Chamber of Commerce
Trinity-Odessa Chamber of Commerce
United Negro College Fund
Volusia Flagler Family YMCA
Vulcan Park & Museum
Winter Garden Heritage Foundation
YMCA of the Suncoast