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Verizon retailers donating 140,000 backpacks in annual giveaway

Round Room, LLC, the nation’s largest Verizon Authorized Retailer, has announced that its The Cellular Connection and Wireless Zone stores are donating 140,000 backpacks full of school supplies in the upcoming 10th annual School Rocks Backpack Giveaway.

Over the past decade, the School Rocks Backpack Giveaway has provided more than 1.2 million backpacks full of school supplies to children across the U.S. as they prepare for their upcoming school years.

On Sunday, July 31, between 1-4 p.m. local time, more than 1,200 TCC and Wireless Zone nationwide stores are inviting local families to their locations to pick up a backpack filled with pencils, paper, a pencil box, folders, a ruler and glue. One backpack per child present will be given away on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last.

In addition to the backpack donations, families can enter their students in a sweepstakes to win a $10,000 college scholarship through the giveaway’s Big Impact. Children in grades K-...

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