The Atterbury Foundation's first project was a K-3 effort called "Chip & Friends", based upon an original concept by Gale Warshawsky of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. The goal of introducing responsible and ethical computer usage to first time computer users was the primary purpose of this first effort. The Atterbury Foundation worked for nearly two years with teachers from Maine to Hawaii, rewriting and refining Gale's original "outreach program" into a structured set of high quality educational materials. These have proven to be effective teaching tools within the elementary academic community.

A key ingredient of "Chip & Friends" is a video tape wherein six puppets introduce several proper behavior patterns that children need to develop to become good responsible computer users. Through the creative efforts of Images in Motion of Sonoma CA (who made the video), these six puppets received some prestigious recoginition. They won both a regional Emmy Nomination from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the SADIE award from the Sonoma County AdClub in 1995. The "Chip & Friends" educational materials are currently in use in more than 300 schools throughout the United States, including all the elementary schools within the Colorado Springs and Wake Forest School Districts.