PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- After competing in the T-Mobile Friday Night 5G lights competition this month, the Lebanon High School football program will receive a substantial grant to fix up its football stadium.

While they fell just short of the grand prize of $1 million, the school's second-place finish earned them $100,000 from T-Mobile.

The purpose of the nationwide competition was to give a prize pack worth $1 million to the rural high school that got the most votes to fix up their football stadium.

The school's grandstands are currently unsafe to use and will be demolished.

Lebanon amassed nearly 1.5 million votes -- which was 500,000 votes off the leader but nearly a million more than the third-place school.

“We are incredibly proud of our students, staff, and community for the wa

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