Honeywell and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Recognize Top Teachers for Commitment to Child Safety

MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J., May 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Honeywell and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children(R) (NCMEC) announced today the winners of the first annual Got 2B Safe! Awards Program, recognizing teachers for their leading commitment to child safety. Honeywell and NCMEC named five Grand Prize recipients and 105 other winners after a rigorous application and selection process involving nearly 1,000 competing teachers from across the United Sates.

Each of the grand prize winners will receive a free classroom makeover from a professional designer valued at $7,500, attend NCMEC's Hope Awards program in Washington, D.C. tonight, and have their lesson plans posted on the Got 2B Safe! Web site, http://www.honeywell.com/got2bsafe. The 105 other winners will receive gift certificates for school supplies worth up to $1,000.

"Honeywell has a longstanding commitment to family safety and security," said Tom Buckmaster, President, Honeywell Hometown Solutions. "Thanks to these teachers, America's children are now smarter about personal safety and armed with positive, empowering abduction prevention skills."

To participate in the awards program, teachers submitted lesson plans implementing the Got 2B Safe! rules for personal safety in their classrooms. Highlighted below are the five grand prize winners, with an overview of their plans:

* Amy Baxter, Denham Springs, LA - Amy leads her class in a discussion about the Four Rules for personal safety, followed by role-playing games with puppets to demonstrate potentially dangerous situations and ways they can be avoided. * David Campbell, Springfield, NJ - David's students are taught the four rules for personal safety through books and role playing. Students then create a movie that will be shown to the entire third grade class. * Vicki Ellis, Sarasota, FL - Vicki's plan begins by discussing each of the four rules for personal safety with her students. The students then work in small groups to create a 'rap' helping others learn Got 2B Safe! * Kathy Hopper, Highland, MI - Kathy's plan begins with a pre-test on personal safety, which is followed by visits from law enforcement officers to share and demonstrate safety procedures. The demonstration is followed by small group work, including skits, and a post-test that measures the students' achievement. * Phuong Nguyen, Houston, TX - In Phoung's plan a KWL chart (what we Know, what we Want to know, what we have Learned) is the foundation for discussing the importance of being assertive and following the four rules for safety. Role playing and visits from a local law enforcement officer help enforce the lessons students learn in class.

"The importance of teaching children and their families about personal safety cannot be underestimated," said Ernie Allen, President and CEO of NCMEC. "Teaming up with Honeywell on the Got 2B Safe! Awards Program allows us to publicly recognize those teachers who have made educating their communities about child safety a priority."

Honeywell and NCMEC created the Got 2B Safe! program in 2003 to address the issue of child safety by arming teachers, parents, and guardians with tools to help keep children safer. The program educates eight to ten year olds and their families on how to help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation.

The Got 2B Safe! program has been sent to every elementary school in the United States, reaching an estimated 5 million students. Got 2B Safe! teaches the following rules to help keep children safer:

1. Check First -- Children should always check with parents and guardians before accepting gifts, rides or invitations from anyone, including friends, acquaintances and people they don't know. 2. Go With a Friend -- Simple and straightforward -- never go anywhere alone. Being with another person in public is safer and more fun. 3. It's My Body -- Anyone who violates the sanctity of a child's body or threatens or attempts to do so is committing a crime. Tell your children it is okay to say "NO!" 4. Tell a Trusted Adult -- Teach your children to TELL a trusted adult -- parent, guardian, teacher, etc. -- if anyone or anything makes them feel scared, uncomfortable or confused.

Honeywell was recognized with the 2005 Department of Justice Corporate Leadership award for its commitment to child safety. Got 2B Safe! is part of Honeywell Hometown Solutions, the company's community outreach initiative which focuses on three areas of vital importance: Family Safety and Security; Housing and Shelter; and Science and Math Education. Together with leading public and non-profit institutions, Honeywell has developed powerful programs to address these needs in its communities. Honeywell also partners with Nobel Media and Nobel Web on the Honeywell -- Nobel Initiative, NASA on FMA Live! Where Science Rocks and Rebuilding Together on home revitalization projects for low-income homeowners.

Honeywell International is a $30 billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; turbochargers; and specialty materials. Based in Morris Township, N.J., Honeywell's shares are traded on the New York, London, Chicago and Pacific Stock Exchanges. It is one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also a component of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. For additional information, please visit http://www.honeywell.com/.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, which serves as a national clearinghouse for information and a resource for child protection. It works in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. NCMEC's congressionally mandated CyberTipline, a reporting mechanism for child sexual exploitation, has handled more than 387,800 leads. Since its establishment in 1984, NCMEC has assisted law enforcement with more than 119,800 missing child cases, resulting in the recovery of more than 102,200 children. For more information about NCMEC, please visit http://www.missingkids.com/ or call 1-800-THE-LOST.