NINE MILE FALLS, Wash. — Lakeside High School finished second in T-Mobile’s Friday Night 5G Lights competition, falling short of the $1 million grand price awarded to a Wisconsin high school.
T-Mobile announced Thursday that Menasha High School in Menasha, Wisconsin, won the nationwide competition with 390,517 votes. Lakeside High School received 194,316 votes.
Lakeside previously won the West Division championship, earning $250,000, a $5,000 student leadership award and a Gronk Fitness gym upgrade valued at $90,000.
Menasha High School will receive $1 million toward renovations at Calder Stadium, which was damaged when a tornado struck the community in July. The school earned a total of $1.37 million in prizes throughout the competition.
Buffalo Gap High School in Virginia finished third with 165,533 votes, while Covington High School in Louisiana placed fourth with 142,273 votes.
According to T-Mobile, more than 3.2 million votes were cast during the competition, which attracted more than 2,400 applications nationwide.
The company awarded more than $8.4 million in prizes to schools across the country this year.
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