Fran Daly, left, of EDS, presents a grant to two Coventry teachers to enhance their science and social studies curriculum. Teacher Amy Siemmao, second from left, helped write the grant proposal.

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Electronic Data Systems Corp., the Texas-based company better known as EDS, made three $1,500 technology grants to schools in Rhode Island. The grants will be used by teachers to purchase technology for their classrooms.

The winners are Joyce Martinelli and Amy Siemmao, Western Coventry Elementary; John George of East Greenwich High School; and Jacqueline Costa, of Washington Oak School, in Coventry.The three were chosen from 50 applicants in the Rhode Island area. The proposals were evaluated based on how the technology and associated project would be used to improve classroom learning while meeting curriculum objectives, how concisely the proposal was written, the degree of innovation associated with the technology and the uniqueness of the learning approach.

EDS was founded by H. Ross Perot in 1962. The company, based in Plano, Texas, had 2007 sales of $22.1 billion. EDS employs 140,000 people worldwide and runs an office in Warwick.

Last week, Hewlett-Packard, the country’s largest personal-computer maker, offered $13.2 billion to acquire EDS, a computer-services supplier.