Bangalore: School officials from Little Falls, Minn., visited the headquarters of Apple for three times over the past two years. They have escaped the winter cold for two day trips to Silicon Valley, reports Matt Richtel of New York Times. In their visit to the head quarters of Apple, the officials had a good opportunity check out the company's latest gadgets, they had the opportunity to discuss the instructional value of computers with high-level Apple executives and engineers and they dined with them and other educators at trendy restaurants. At their visit to the Apple Company, the whole cost of their hospitality was paid from the side of the company. The visits of the school officials paid off for Apple too- to the tune of $1.2 million in sales. In the month of September, Little Falls handed out iPads to One thousand Seven hundred students, out of Two thousand Five hundred students at a celebration in the school gym. Before that, around Two hundred teachers got a pep talk via video chat from an Apple executive.