Concorso Internazionale ThinkQuest®
Anno 1998-1999
Un concorso in Internet per studenti dai 12 ai 19 anni
| NEWS ThinkQuest® Announces the Winners of the Second Annual ThinkQuest Junior Awards ThinkQuest Junior Presents the Nation’s Top 4th, 5th, and 6th GradeWeb Designers with Prizes Totaling $250,000 ARMONK, N.Y., May 20, 1999 – At a real-video awards ceremony yesterday, ThinkQuest® Junior honored our nation’s most promising young Web designers with cash and awards totaling $250,000. A philanthropic and educational initiative created by Advanced Network & Services, Inc., more than 1,200 teams of up to six students competed in the second annual ThinkQuest Junior Awards contest. The on-line ceremony gave students, teachers, and web enthusiasts an exclusive look at some of the best educational sites of the year created by fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students. Some of this year’s most memorable entries included a visually stunning site on the art of origami called Pieces and Creases – A Fun Guide to Origami (http://tqjunior.advanced.org/5402/); a thought-provoking look at violence on television with I Want my NTV! (http://tqjunior.advanced.org/5676/); and Yo, It’s Time for Braces, a site about coping with this dental dilemma (http://tqjunior.advanced.org/5029/). The awards ceremony designated the top Web sites in a variety of categories - Arts & Literature, Science & Mathematics, Social Sciences, Sports & Health, and Interdisciplinary. More than 600 ThinkQuest ’99 contest entries, including this year’s winners, will be featured on ThinkQuest’s library of entries (www.thinkquest.org). All of the sites are made freely available to elementary school students and teachers for inclusion in classroom curriculum and are used by millions of visitors worldwide. "ThinkQuest has long considered the Internet to be the educational medium of the future," commented Allan H. Weis, president and CEO of Advanced Network & Services Inc., the nonprofit organization that created ThinkQuest Junior. "However, judging from the quality of the winning sites seen at yesterday's competition, the future may be much closer than we think." The ThinkQuest Junior program is a classroom-based competition that encourages girls and boys in grades four to six to take advantage of the Internet as an information resource and a collaborative tool. ThinkQuest Junior teams work together for more than five months to create highly interactive, well-researched Web sites on an educational topic of interest to them. Winners of this highly competitive event pass through an extensive judging process to reach the final awards event. About ThinkQuest ThinkQuest is the largest and fastest-growing Internet-based education program in the world. Nearly 1,000 student-created Web sites have become part of its master site, which is maintained for use by educators, students, businesses, government agencies and citizens everywhere. The most heavily trafficked educational destination on the Internet, its subject matter ranges from Mars exploration to the physics of baseball to the plays of William Shakespeare. Students compete in five areas: Science & Mathematics, Arts & Literature, Social Studies, Sports & Health, and Interdisciplinary. The challenge aims to encourage collaboration, leadership, critical thinking and help raise students' technological expertise. About Advanced Network & Services, Inc. Advanced Network & Services, Inc. was formed in September of 1990 as a nonprofit corporation dedicated to advancing education by accelerating the use of computer networking applications and technology. In February of 1995, Advanced Network & Services initiated several new programs in support of education and science. ThinkQuest Junior is one of those programs. Advanced Network & Services also supports university research and development related to the advancement and the use of Internet applications and technologies such as Internet2, The National Tele-Immersion Initiative and Internet Performance Measurement. Advanced Network & Services can be contacted by visiting the ThinkQuest Web site at www.thinkquest.org or calling 914-765-1100. Contact Kevin Johannesen Andrea V. Papa
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