[June 17, 2011] Students across Ontario help TVOKids select Best Teacher Ever Tweet TORONTO, Jun 17, 2011, 2011 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) -- With the help of students across Ontario, TVOKids has selected the winners in the 2011 TVOKids Best Teacher Ever Contest, presented by Scholar's Choice and in partnership with City Parent. The fifth annual contest ran from May 2 to June 12 and received 9,300 entries from children across the province eager to recognize their teachers. The contest invited kids to nominate their favourite teacher and tell TVOKids what makes them the best teacher ever. In a random draw, winners from three grade categories were selected from all the entries. The three teachers selected in the draw each won a $400 gift card from Scholar's Choice and a netbook computer. The students who nominated them each won a $100 gift card from Scholar's Choice, an iPod Shuffle and a pizza party for their class. Congratulations to the winners: Teacher: Ms. Wilson Nominated by: Maria Category: Junior and Senior Kindergarten The Waterfront Public School Toronto Teacher: Mrs. Aylesworth Nominated by: Ruby Category: Primary (Grades 1-3) Perth Road Public School Kingston Teacher: Ms de Wit Nominated by: Adeline Category: Junior (Grades 4-6) Barhavin Public School Ottawa Five runners-up in each category also won TVOKids prize packs. For more information, please visit tvokids.com . About TVO TVO is Ontario's public educational media organization and a trusted source of interactive educational content that informs, inspires and stimulates curiosity and thought. Celebrating 40 years, TVO's vision is to empower people to be engaged citizens of Ontario through educational media. TVO is funded primarily by the Province of Ontario and supported by thousands of donors. For more information, visit tvo.org Where to find TVO On Websites: Online: Connect: air: tvo.org Yahoo! Facebook Cable channel 2 (may vary tvokids.com YouTube Twitter in some areas) tvoparents.com Rogers On Demand ilc.org iTunes Rogers HD channel 580 Bell TV channel 265 Shaw Direct channel 353 To view this news release in HTML formatting, please use the following URL: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2011/17/c7304.html SOURCE: TVO SOURCE: News - Media Media contact: Laura Wickett TVO Communications Phone: (416) 484-2600 ext. 5550 Email:[email protected] [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]