Bright House Networks Names Finalists in Bright Ideas STEM from Today's Youth Competition

ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Bright House Networks today named the six finalists, one from each of its six service areas, in its Bright Ideas STEM from Today's Youth program. Bright Ideas STEM, a multi-state competition for high school students, challenged students to dream up the coolest inventions to make their own life, community or even the world, more awesome... and show how STEM – that's science, technology, engineering and math, can bring their idea to life.

Bright House Networks congratulates the following Bright Ideas STEM finalists:

• Bakersfield: "Wireless Charging for Electrical Vehicle Transportation"
  William Schallock, Bakersfield High School
  
• Birmingham: "OMNI Project"
  Braniya Hunter, Desiree Brooks and Khalid Lucas, Center Point High School
  
• Central Florida: "Registarme. Select. Speak. Simple."
  Ashley Chico, Lake Highland Preparatory High School
  
• Indianapolis: "Mechanized Eye Dropper"
  Vikas Maturi, Carmel High School
  
• Livonia: "Project Cast Away"
  Sean Kerrigan and Raymond Schade, Farmington High School
  
• Tampa Bay: "Project 'Time' "
  Benjamin Varah, Southeast High School and Yoshua Torralva, Braden River High School

These six finalists will now travel to Orlando, Fla., where they will compete head-to-head on TV, in front of a studio audience, at the Finalist Pitch Event on March 6 at The Ballroom at Church Street. Each finalist will have no more than six minutes to pitch their ideas to a panel of experts who will select one lucky winner. The program will be recorded and available via Video on Demand (VOD) on Bright House Networks.

The Grand Prize Winner will have the chance to work with leading innovation firm Fahrenheit 212 in New York to build a virtual prototype and a business plan – which means this student's dream or idea could potentially be realized and fulfilled!

"Bright House Networks congratulates these six finalists, as well as all of the amazing students who entered ideas in our Bright Ideas STEM from Today's Youth competition," Kimberly Maki, corporate vice president, corporate communications and public relations, Bright House Networks. "Today's youth are tomorrow's leaders and it has been such an inspirational experience to see the creative inventions these students have developed that could possibly change our world!" 

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.

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. The company also offers a strong portfolio of customizable, advanced business solutions for video, voice, data, cloud-based and managed services.  The company is MEF-certified and also recently received the Cisco^® Master Service Provider Certification 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, award-winning, local news and sports channels in its Florida markets. More information is available about Bright House Networks or our products and services, visit brighthouse.com.

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