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SAN FRANCISCO Microsoft awarded a 15-year-old female champion drag racer a trip to its headquarters to meet CEO Bill Gates and be featured in a print ad, the company said.
Jeannine Johnson was the grand prize winner of the national “Start Something” contest, in which she showed Microsoft execs how she used their software to improve her drag racing. She met Gates on Thursday at a ceremony in Redmond, Wash.
Johnson will be the included in a print advertisement from Interpublic Group’s McCann Erickson in San Francisco, the company’s longtime agency.
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