Looking for the next bill gates.Turn your Internet-savvy students onto this year's ThinkQuest ThinkQuest is an international website building competition sponsored by the Oracle Education Foundation. Student teams, consisting of 3 to 6 students and a Coach, who must be a teacher at an accredited educational institution, and an Assistant Coach (optional), are challenged to competition. Now in its tenth year, the competition calls upon kids to create educational Web sites, such as "Hand Over the Loot," a Wild-West inspired site whose creators took home big prizes. Entrants work in teams, which are sometimes composed of students from multiple schools or even multiple countries. The winning teams are whisked off to the ThinkQuest Live awards ceremony (this year's was held in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden ) and their sites are added to the ThinkQuest Library, an online resource of over 5,500 sites on a wide range of topics. "It's truly amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. ," says teacher Jeanne Paulus of Wauwatosa, WI, "to witness the teamwork (product, software, tool) Teamwork - A SASD tool from Sterling Software, formerly CADRE Technologies, which supports the Shlaer/Mellor Object-Oriented method and the Yourdon-DeMarco, Hatley-Pirbhai, Constantine and Buhr notations. and friendships that result from the competition." To see past winners or learn how to enter, visit www.thinkquest.org. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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