Five Days Left To Enter Patch's Deck the House Contest

From apartments to condos to houses to street displays, take a photo of your holiday decorations and submit it to our online contest by Dec. 16.

Your Holiday Decorations Could Net $100K for Boston Schools

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Enter Patch's “Deck the House” Contest For a Chance to Win $100,000

Did you decorate your house for the holidays this year? Enter our "Deck the House" contest and you could win $100,000 for your local school district and $500 to pay your electric bills!

We’re launching our annual Deck the House Contest to find the most over-the-top holiday decorations in America—the best “decked” house in the country, the one home so spectacularly decorated that everyone in town jokes your holiday decorations could rival Rockefeller Center’s.  If this sounds like your house, upload a photo or video of your home to our contest page from Nov. 26 to Dec. 16. Only residents of Patch towns are eligible to enter. We’ll select 24 regional finalists, and from them, pick one grand prize winner. Patch will pay up to $500 of the utility bill for each finalist, while our national winner will have $100,000 donated to his or her local school district. Remember: Just visit deckthehouse.patch.com/contest/charlestown to …

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What Could Boston Public Schools Buy For $100,000?

Patch's "Deck The House" contest is giving away serious dough to the winner's public school district, and Boston teachers already have ways they could spend the money.

It may be the holiday season currently, but Boston Public School teachers have been making their list and checking it twice for quite some time.  Since Patch is giving away $100,000 through its Deck The House contest, we wanted to see what teachers in Boston could do with the money if a Boston resident won.  Some teachers have requests for a single item, like Boston Renaissance Charter Public School 5th grade teacher Kathy Reilly's request for a video camera on iLoveSchools.com (the camera costs $453.19), a request she makes to help her students bring fairytales they are writing to life.  Others have smaller requests, like Sarah Peteraf, who teaches 7th grade mathematics at the Edwards Middle School in Charlestown.  Her list on Classwish.…

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Kasey Hariman

11:57 am on Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Here's the timer she's specifically referring to: http://classwish.org/wishes/6678-School-Smart-Overhead-Timer My guess is that the advantages of the timer are that it's big enough for everyone to see, but, you're right, if she does have a computer or an iPad that's not in use, that everyone can see, she could just use the online timer. But she may not have those things. I know I depend on http…   more ›