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 Apple Celebrates 25 Years of the Apple Distinguished Educator Program with Dr.
                                   Carl Owens

   Josh Centers

   The [1]Apple Distinguished Educator program is now 25 years old, with
   over 3000 participants, and the company [2]celebrated the occasion by
   highlighting one of its first participants: Dr. Carl Owens, a College
   of Education professor at Tennessee Tech University. Owens has used
   Apple products in the classroom since the 1980s, and today, as he nears
   retirement, he provisions each of his students with an iPad in the
   classroom.

   Thanks to his encouragement for students to collaborate remotely,
   Tennessee Tech credits Owens for preparing the university for the
   COVID-19 pandemic. 'Dr. Owens has absolutely laid the foundation for us
   to be as flexible as we have been with COVID-19. The pandemic happened
   so fast and so many things shut down quickly that it became really hard
   to find the necessary equipment, but we had a lot of that stuff already
   in place because of him,' said Dr. Jason Beach, a fellow professor at
   Tennessee Tech, who is on the school's COVID-19 task force with Owens.

   As a side note, my wife Hannah Centers was a student of Owens. 'Dr.
   Owens's class was my first introduction to the Mac world. I'll never
   forget seeing an Apple TV for the first time in 2008. That was an
   experience. He really does have a passion for technology,' she said.

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