GREEN COVE SPRINGS – Round Room, the nation’s largest Verizon Authorized Retailer, announced its TCC and Wireless Zone retailers will be donating 120,000 backpacks with school supplies on Sunday through the 11th annual School Rocks Backpack Giveaway, including the stores at 1342 N. Orange Ave. in Green Cove Springs and 617 N. Temple Ave. in Starke. Since 2013, the School Rocks Backpack Giveaway has provided more than 1.3 million backpacks to children across the U.S. ahead of the upcoming academic year. The giveaway will start at 1 p.m. and will continue while supplies last. More than 1,000 TCC and Wireless Zone stores nationwide are inviting local families to their locations to pick up a backpack filled with pencils, paper, a pencil box, folders, a ruler and glue. One backpack will be given to a child on a first-come, first-served basis at each participating TCC and Wireless Zone store. Any leftover backpacks will be donated to local schools of each store’s choice. “The School Rocks Backpack Giveaway is our company’s cornerstone annual event, and I couldn’t be more thankful for our store locations, employees and customers for helping us continue to do good in the thousands of communities we operate in,” said Scott Moorehead, CEO of Round Room. “The start of the school year is an exciting time for many, and we look forward each and every year to make school supplies more accessible for students so they can thrive in the classroom.” According to the National Retail Federation, American families with schoolaged children spent an average of $864 on school supplies in 2022 – totaling $36.1 billion in the United States last year on school supplies alone. Through TCC and Wireless Zone, Round Room aims to ease the strain of rising school supply costs each year.