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More than 220 Clark County business, education and community leaders joined students and teachers to celebrate the 10th anniversary of “An Evening with CLASS!,” the annual fundraising gala to benefit CLASS! literacy, student journalism and career skills development programs for high school students in Clark County. Hosted at Caesars Palace on May 2, the event honored Cox Communications and featured guest speakers Nevada Supreme Court Justice Michael Cherry and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Alexandra Berzon of the Las Vegas Sun. CLASS! Board President Chris Ferrari presented the 2009 Voices of Tomorrow Mentor Award to Juergen Barbusca, Manager of Communications for Cox Communications and a member of the CLASS! Board of Directors. In nearly a decade in partnership with CLASS!, Cox Communications has provided significant financial, technical, volunteer and governance support to CLASS!. One of its most important contributions has been sponsorship of the CLASS! High School Internship Program, in which more than 120 high school interns from across Clark County have received one-on-one job skills training from professionals in media and communication careers. CLASS! would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for joining us in celebrating the power of community partnership that makes it possible for young people to succeed: Senior CLASS! Freshman CLASS! Honor Roll Event Sponsors
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Class! Publications is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization that produces Class!, a free, monthly, bilingual publication by, for and about the high school students of Clark County, Nevada. Since 1994, Class! student interns and contributors have been reporting about the topics, trends, issues and interests of high schoolers as these relate to everything from student life to lifestyles. Class! is a communications vehicle that seeks to give students at public and private high schools in the greater Las Vegas metropolitan area a unique voice while endeavoring to bring together the student bodies at these schools as a single community.
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