CHARLOTTE – The Charlotte Checkers hockey team recently awarded Cornelius Elementary School $5,000 in technology upgrades.

Cornelius Elementary, along with Endhaven Elementary School, competed with 22 schools nominated based on needs for technology upgrades. Checkers’ Facebook fans voted for the winners. More than 12,000 votes were cast during the two-week voting period.

The prize consists of $2,500 cash to be put toward technology and $2,500 worth of products and software from Microsoft, including Kinect for Windows, Xbox 360 with Kinect, Visual Studio Pro, Windows 7 and more. For more information, go online to www.microsoft.com/education or www.gocheckers.com.