Tim Dempsey and Nicholas Rasmussen didn’t even know each other until a few months ago. Now they’re good buddies and newly-crowned champions of the first-ever gaming tournament at the Special… Read More
The 2018 Special Olympics USA Games opened in Seattle on Sunday at the University of Washington’s Husky Stadium with a parade of athletes and musical performances and inspiring moments meant… Read More
Seattle-area tech companies are making a statement about building an inclusive workforce as the city hosts one of the largest sporting events in the region’s history. More than 3,000 athletes… Read More
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Seattle-area businesses — including Amazon, Boeing, and Microsoft — have given $7 million in cash and $2 million in in-kind donations to support the 2018 Special Olympics. Microsoft announced the donations… Read More
Amazon’s Spheres are already a head turner on a normal day, thanks to the unique architectural nature of the plant-filled orbs at the base of the company’s corporate towers. Friday… Read More
Each year, Special Olympics International and its 220 chapters worldwide organize some 108,000 events. The games give athletes with intellectual disabilities the opportunity to compete in everything from basketball to… Read More
NEW ORLEANS, La. — The first Special Olympics event launched without much fanfare at a mostly empty Soldier Field in 1968, but there was one particular moment that symbolized what the organization would… Read More
As an extension of its partnership with the Special Olympics, Microsoft hosted a leg of the Special Olympics Unified Relay Across America at its headquarters in Redmond on Thursday. The Unified Relay is traveling the entire… Read More