Morrow Family Medicine Raises $30K for Forsyth Schools' 'Bring Your Own Technology' Initiative

What started a year earlier over a game of gin rummy recently culminated in the presentation of a nearly $30,000 check to Forsyth County Schools' BYOT, or Bring Your Own Technology, initiative.

Peggie and Jim Morrow, of Morrow Family Medicine in Cumming, decided a year ago to give back to the community and they did it in a big way. Hosting a golf tournament and conducting a raffle in participating schools, they raised money to provide in-home Internet for families without it and also provided a method for schools to enhance their own BYOT agendas.

BYOT encourages students to bring their personal technology tools to school so they may learn new ways to use them for collaborating and interacting with their teachers and each other to research information, solve complex problems, create original products and publish their work, according to the school system's website.  

An Appreciation Luncheon at the Forsyth Conference Center at Lanier Tech was held last week to thank sponsors and volunteers and also to create some "buzz" for next year, according to a Morrow Family Medicine release.  

Speaking to the group, Peggie Morrow said that her goal for next year is "a big one that my husband won't let me say out loud."

Tim Clark, director of Institutional Technology for Forsyth County, and South Forsyth High School senior Vasishta Manavarty told the attendees how BYOT had changed, and could change, the lives of all students in the county.

This year, the funds were raised primarily through a golf tournament held in September at Hampton Golf Village. Plans are to combine the golf tournament with multiple other fundraising and fun-raising efforts to bring even more money into the coffers.

Forsyth County is nationally recognized as the leader in BYOT and encourages all students to bring not only their own technology, but to "bring your own thinking" to school every day.

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