Tim Cook, Apple employees volunteer at San Jose elementary school for MLK Day

Apple CEO Tim Cook joined hundreds of Apple employees in honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday by volunteering time in a renovation effort at Santee Elementary School in San Jose, Calif.

Cook shared two pictures of the Santee Elementary event in a Twitter post. In one photo, Cook is seen refurbishing a wooden installation with a fellow Apple worker, while the other shows a group of students ready to paint campus buildings. Monday was a no school day for Santee.

"Proud to volunteer beside hundreds of Apple employees honoring #MLKDay at ConnectED partner Santee Elementary," the tweet reads.

President Barack Obama's ConnectED initiative, a joint effort involving the Federal Communications Commission and multiple corporations, seeks to provide high-speed Internet access to 99 percent of America's students by 2018. Apple is on the list of participating companies, along with Microsoft, Sprint, and Verizon, among others.

Apple pledged $100 million to the ConnectED program in 2014. Santee Elementary is one of 114 schools in 29 states that was given iPads for student use, while faculty received both MacBooks and iPads. The program also allots one Apple TV per classroom for in-class activities, as well as software serving educational and professional development.

15 Comments

cash907censored 83 comments · 9 Years

About 8 years ago

Nice gesture. How many people of color on the Apple board, again?

bobroo 96 comments · 10 Years

If they were willing to fly this crew to San Diego; why did they not fly them to a place like Detroit that could really use a few extra hands putting park benches together??? Or Patterson, NJ??? Or rural Mississippi??? Ya' know, some places (unlike Southern California) that really need some help and don't have a PTA to do these type of things.

swandog15 1 comment · 8 Years

I don't believe this is a San Diego school. Your title says San Jose which is more likely. (I live in SD)

teejay2012 406 comments · 12 Years

cash907censored said:

Nice gesture. How many people of color on the Apple board, again?

How long did it take you to become so smug and snarky? Or are you just so tired of seeing CEO's of huge corporations being charitable or rolling up their sleeves to do something in their communities. /s

The community should be grateful to Cook and the Apple employees that took part in this. It might also temper your remarks to remind you that Cook is one of the wealthy CEOs who have pledged nearly all their fortunes to charitable causes.

JinTech 1048 comments · 9 Years

bobroo said:

If they were willing to fly this crew to San Diego; why did they not fly them to a place like Detroit that could really use a few extra hands putting park benches together??? Or Patterson, NJ??? Or rural Mississippi??? Ya' know, some places (unlike Southern California) that really need some help and don't have a PTA to do these type of things.

I think travel time had a big factor in their choice. Just a guess.