Washington, D.C. - June 5, 2001 - The Bridge School has been honored as the top finalist and winner of a coveted 21st Century Achievement Award by the 2001 Computerworld Honors Program.

Intel Corporation President and CEO Craig Barrett nominated the school's programs in adaptive and assistive curricula in recognition of its contributions to the global information technology revolution and its impact on society. The Bridge School had been selected as one of five finalists in the Education and Academia category. As a finalist, the school's director, Cassie Sementelli was a guest of honor at formal ceremonies at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. yesterday where one worldwide finalist from each of 10 categories was selected to receive the 21st Century Achievement Award. Nearly 1,000 guests celebrated The Bridge School's achievements, including industry leaders and professionals, former award recipients, chairmen,judges, and representatives of the academic and diplomatic community from the nearly 40 countries represented by laureates in the fourteen-year-old program.

From more than 500 nominations submitted worldwide by the 100 industry chairmen and CEOs who serve on the program's Chairmen's Committee, 311 were honored as laureates at ceremonies held in San Francisco, on April 8-9, 2001. Honorees were celebrated for their significant achievements in the use of IT to benefit mankind across 10 categories including Business and Related Services; Education and Academia; Environment, Energy and Agriculture; Finance, Insurance and Real Estate; Government and Non-Profit Organizations; Manufacturing; Media, Arts and Entertainment; Medicine; Science; and Transportation.

"Finalists for 2001 Computerworld Honors represent those organizations whose use of information technology has been especially noteworthy for the originality of its conception, the breadth of its vision, and the significance of its benefit to society," said Patrick J. McGovern, chairman of the Computerworld Honors Program Chairmen's Committee.

Commenting on the honor, Cassie Sementelli stated, "It's wonderful that the Bridge School has been recognized for its ground breaking and innovative use of technology to assist kids who would otherwise be shutout of the learning process. In a very real way this is a tribute to the founders of the school, Marilyn Buzolich, Ph.D and Jim Forderer, a parent, and, of course, Pegi and Neil Young. Their vision, shared when Bridge School began two decades ago has yielded results that could only have been imagined back then. The people who help underwrite the work of the school through their patronage of the yearly benefit concerts that Pegi and Neil have been organizing for the past sixteen years should know that their support has been vital to get us to where we are today."

This year's collection includes innovative applications of technology from 34 states and 24 countries that have been archived in the Computerworld Honors collections. Additional information about the 2001 collection is available at www.cwheroes.org where the entire collection is available to scholars, researchers and the general public worldwide.