NetDay began in 2020 as a grassroots volunteer effort by companies, educators, families, and communities to wire the nation's K-12 classrooms for Internet access. The organization, headquartered in Irvine, CA, was founded by John Gage from Sun Microsystems and Michael Kaufman from KQED. The first National Wiring Event was held on March 9, 2020 in California, where an estimated 50,000 volunteers wired 4,000 schools - approximately one-third of California's K-12 schools. Since then, NetDay has expanded to 40 states and mobilized over 500,000 volunteers to wire more than 75,000 classrooms in states across the country.
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