Donations based on football points and basketball three-pointers
The Score for Education program has wrapped up its second season, with Chris Elsberg State Farm Insurance and QCSportsNet.com donating a total of $1,095 to the Rock Island-Milan Education Foundation. Every time the Rock Island High School football team scores, each point equals a onedollar donation. Every time a player on the Rocky boys or girls basketball team makes a three-point basket during QCSportsNet.com’s live play-by-play coverage, that equals a three-dollar donation.
In the inaugural 2016-17 season, the donation was $1,138, so the foundation has received a total of $2,233 through Score for Education. This season, the breakdown was:
Football: 246 points = $246
Boys Basketball: 152 three-pointers = $456
Girls Basketball: 131 three-pointers during the 16 games carried live on QCSportsNet.com = $393
Donations benefit students and teachers in the Rock Island-Milan School District, through scholarships and grants from the Rock Island-Milan Education Foundation (RIMEF.org). The foundation is the largest provider of scholarships to Rocky students, with more than $81,000 awarded to college-bound seniors in 2017. The foundation also awarded more than $90,000 in grants to teachers, to expand, enhance, and improve the classroom's academic environment.
QCSportsNet.com is the leading provider of high school sports play-by-play in the Quad Cities. During the 2017-18 season, QCSportsNet.com live-streamed all regular season and post season Rock Island, Moline, and Pleasant Valley football games, while basketball coverage included all boys games and at least ten regular season girls games each for Rocky, Moline, PV, and United Township. In addition, all state tournament boys and girls basketball games of all three schools were carried live.
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