CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – (CLARKSVILLENOW) It was a big day for a group of 8th grade students at Richview Middle School when they received the National FBI Safe Online Surfing Award (FBI-SOS) on Friday, April 12.
The students in Heather Stanley’s computer literacy classes scored a composite score of 93.19 percent to win the January 2019 award in the Starfish category. In January, a total of 116,985 students in 1,897 schools in all 50 states and U.S. territories participated in the challenge.
A total of 44 students received certificates for the program. The awards were presented by Matt Espenshade, Assistant Special Agent in Charge from the FBI Memphis Field Office, who works in Nashville.
Espenshade praised the Richview students for their success.
“We decided to start programs that would help you to be safer online and to make better decisions about what websites you’re going to, who you’re talking to online and those types of things,” Espenshade said. “This program that you won the award for is one of those programs. Thank your taking part in it and thank you for being dedicated to the program,.”
The FBI-SOS initiative is a free and fun online program that promotes cyber citizenship and teaches students in third through eighth grades how to recognize and respond to online dangers. The program covers topics like internet predators, cyber-bullying, social networking and gaming safety.
