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Rashad Jennings’ Great Community Service

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Rashad Jennings’ jersey Image:

Rashad Jennings is an inspirational athlete who played the Running back with future Hall Of Famer Eli Manning, who has won awards for being a great author and awards for his outstanding commitment to community service. He won from Body Sculpt Of New York(children sports and fitness organization) and gave an inspirational speech about how being focus and being dedicated is key to success. He even won first place on Dancing With The Stars, which helps show how you can excel in a lot of different fields of expertise.

Clayton Kershaw makes great contributions to the global community via his Kershaw’s Challenge Foundation

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Clayton Kershaw’s Jersey. Source: Nike website

Clayton Kershaw is the ace of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ pitching staff. He’s a great pitcher and he’s also a great humanitarian. Clayton Kershaw’s community service organization is called Kershaw’s Challenge and it’s a Christ-centered organization that gives kids a better life by not only giving them food and shelter, but also guiding them in the successful path. They help at-risk kids in Los Angeles, Dallas, Zambia and the Dominican Republic. You can read more about Clayton Kershaw’s amazing community service program on his organization’s official website: https://www.kershawschallenge.com/

Tobias Harris from the Philadelphia 76ers encourages kids to more

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Source: Dick’s Sporting Goods

Tobias Harris visited a school in Philadephia named Bethune Elementary School as a special guest. Also, he donated $1 million to the school. His main goal was to help students improve their reading skills by not looking at reading as something that’s a chore. Instead, he wants the kids to have fun and be able to enjoy reading. Below, here’s a video of Tobias Harris visiting this school:

Source: ESPN’s twitter page

You can more about Tobias Harris helping his community on ESPN.com: https://www.espn.com/

Derek Jeter is a Hall Of Fame person on and off the baseball field

Posted on by chris42 in Major League Baseball, Sports And Tech Education

Derek Jeter was selected to be in the Baseball Hall Of Fame last week with well over 90% of the votes. He was one of the best leaders and players in not only Yankees history, but also MLB history. He’s also one of the best people off of the baseball field. Derek and his dad founded a non-profit organization named the Turn2Foundation, which helps kids stay focused on school and sports so that they can stay away from drug and alcohol abuse.

Derek Jeter was selected to the Baseball Hall Of Fame. Souce: Derek Jeter’s Turn 2 Foundation’s twitter page.

The Turn2Foundation has given back over $29 million to fund its programs and other companies that do amazing work in the community too. You can read more about Derek Jeter’s Turn2Foundation on his website: https://www.mlb.com/turn-2-foundation

Curtis Granderson helps millions of people in his community via the Grand Kids foundation

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Curtis Granderson is a MLB player who is a world-class citizen in addition to being a great baseball player. He’s the founder of the Grand Kids foundation, which has helped raise over 35 million meals for kids and has introduced over 2 million kids to the fun sport of baseball.

Here’s a twitter post about Curtis Granderson volunteering to help kids learn more about baseball. Source: Curtis Granderson’s Twitter page.

Also he’s won the 2016 Roberto Clemente award for being such as a positive role model who represents baseball in a very admirable way. He has created a state-of-the-art baseball field at the University Of Illinois at Chicago. It’s a field that’s played on by nearly 10,000 kids every year. Here’s an article on Major League Baseball’s website that talks more about Granderson winning the Roberto Clemente award: https://www.mlb.com/news/curtis-granderson-wins-roberto-clemente-award-c207427120

Jarrett Allen From the Brooklyn Nets

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Players like Jarrett Allen of the Brooklyn Nets often help students learn how to use technology and do things with sports at the same time. Below, the Brooklyn Nets posted a video of Jarrett Allen working with kids to help them learn coding:

Here’e a video of Jarrett Allen showing the kids how their code looks like on a real basketball court. Source: Brooklyn Nets on Twitter

You can see more about the Brooklyn Nets on their official website: https://www.nba.com/nets/

Sports And Education

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Athletes like Lebron James and Serena Williams have helped build schools. Serena helped build a school in Jamaica via her foundation. Also Lebron James helped build a school in Cleveland called the I Promise school. According to the New York Times, students at the I Promise school have been excelling in their classes.

Athletes also help educate their in communities in other ways, like going to events or visiting schools.

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Introduction

Welcome To my Sports And Tech Education Blog. Below, you can check out some of my recent posts. Also, the Sports And Education Page has links to the pages that talk about how athletes contribute to their communities via education. Also the Sports And Tech page talks about how athletes help others learn about technology.