Dallas, TX – Dallas-based technology and systems integrator GDT announced at its Annual Spring Fling Bar-B-Que, May 3rd and 4th, that New Horizons of North Texas will receive this year’s $10,000 winner’s donation.
GDT’s Annual Spring Fling Bar-B-Que was started in 2014 by GDT CEO J.W. Roberts to further the company’s fun atmosphere while benefiting local charities. The event pits ten (10) GDT Account Executives competing against each other to determine who can smoke the best brisket and ribs. Each cross-departmental team was comprised of GDT technology partners, including Cisco, HPE, Dell EMC, Pure Networks, VMware, Veeam, Juniper Networks, Hypercore Networks, Cohesity, QTS, APS, Jive Communications and Global Knowledge.
The Spring Fling Bar-B-Que is centered around a 19-hour, highly competitive cooking event, featuring state-of-the-art smokers, secretive, pre-event meetings, and closely guarded recipes. It’s a great event full of food and fun, and provides the perfect environment for camaraderie and relationship building for the over 300 GDT employees in Dallas. And, of course, a winner is awarded who unveils their selected charity to receive the $10,000 donation. GDT Account Executive Chris Bedford, who captained the winning team, selected New Horizons of North Texas.
Said Bedford, a 20-year GDT veteran, “Our annual Spring Fling Bar-B-Que is one of the many marquee―and outrageously fun―events our marketing team produces each year, but being able to donate $10,000 to a great organization like New Horizons of North Texas makes it even more special.”
GDT’s Annual Spring Fling and Bar-B-Que is one of many examples of the company’s work hard, play hard philosophy and its ongoing commitment to giving back to the D/FW community.
About New Horizons of North Texas
New Horizons is a faith-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to serving at-risk youth growing up in situations of poverty and academic struggle. The mission of New Horizons of North Texas is to empower at-risk youth to reach their full potential with tutoring, mentoring, and faith-building. Hew Horizons works with a highly relational, individualized, and long-term approach to provide support for elementary students all the way through their high school graduation, while providing over 250 hours of mentorship to each child each year. Visit www.newhorizonsofntx.org to learn more about New Horizons.
About GDT
Founded in 1996, GDT is an award-winning, international multi-vendor IT solutions provider and maintains high-level partner status with several of the world’s leading IT solutions and hardware providers, including HPE, Cisco and Dell EMC. GDT specializes in the consulting, designing, deploying, and managing of advanced technology solutions for businesses, service providers, government, and healthcare. The GDT team of expert architects and engineers maintain the highest level of certifications to translate the latest ideas and technologies into innovative solutions that realize the vision of business leaders.