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NEWS RELEASE

For Immediate Release For More Information Contact:

July 5, 2016 Brent Hoskins

Executive Director

(816) 303-4040

BTA Awards 20 Scholarships

$1,578,000 has been awarded to students since 1984-85

Kansas City, Mo. — The Business Technology Association (BTA / www.bta.org) has announced its 2016-17 scholarship winners. Twenty students were awarded scholarships.

Each year, BTA awards one $3,000 and a number of $1,000 and $1,500 scholarships to qualifying children of full-time employees of dealerships that are current BTA Retail Dealer members. Since the 1984-85 school year, BTA has presented 1,398 scholarships to deserving students, totaling $1,578,000.

The BTA Scholarship Foundation is supported by continuing contributions fromindividual dealers, as well as manufacturers and distributors.

On Feb. 23, 1968, the Dorothy R. Ames Scholarship Fund was announced in honor of Ames at her retirement dinner in Great Neck, Long Island, New York, for her many contributions to the industry. Ames retired as the executive vice president of the Ames Supply Co. Ultimately, the fund became the BTA Scholarship Foundation, benefiting the sons and daughters of employees of BTA member dealerships nationwide.

Scholarship recipients are chosen each year by an impartial and independent evaluator. The scholarship recipients for the 2016-17 school year and their sponsoring

BTA member dealerships are as follows:

Cassidy Buffington, Duplicating Products Inc., Gainesville, Georgia

Orion Couch, Standley Systems, Chickasha, Oklahoma

Jazmine Dahi, Advanced Office, Santa Ana, California

Sydney Emmerich, EO Johnson Business Technologies, Wausau,

Wisconsin

Kailey Henderson, Anderson Business Technology, Pasadena, California

Jeffrey Henize, Waltz Business Solutions, Crestview Hills, Kentucky

Natalie Jehn, Waltz Business Solutions, Crestview Hills, Kentucky

Zachary Jones, Copy Link Inc., Chula Vista, California

David Keys, Fireside Office Solutions, Bismarck, North Dakota

Matthew Krites, PERRY proTECH, Lima, Ohio

Blaise McCormick, Duplicator Sales & Service, Louisville, Kentucky

Megan McKenzie, Applied Imaging, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Taylor Ortner, American Business Systems Co. Inc., Springfield, Missouri

Katie Paulich, EO Johnson Business Technologies, Wausau, Wisconsin

Adrienn Peterson, Century Business Products Inc., Sioux Falls, South

Dakota

Morgan Shipley, SolutionOne, Lincoln, Nebraska

Jarod Smith, Advanced Systems Inc., Waterloo, Iowa

Carson Stacy, Professional Business Systems Inc., Bentonville, Arkansas

Jaykob Velasquez, Gobin's Inc., Pueblo, Colorado

Darryl Watkins, Gordon Flesch Company, Dublin, Ohio

For more information on the BTA Scholarship Foundation, visit

www.bta.org/Scholarships.

Founded in 1926, the Business Technology Association serves office technology dealerships, resellers, manufacturers, distributors and service companies. Its core members — office technology dealerships — consult, sell and service hardware, software and supplies with the primary goal of helping businesses optimize business document and information workflows. Through the association's various educational programs, information, research, legal services, publications and guidance, BTA member dealerships are positioned to be the premier source of the office technology used by businesses throughout the United States every day. For more information on

BTA, visit www.bta.org.

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