The Dawn and Dusk of Man

Our Site

Purpose and Audience: Much went into making this site, from the coach to the students to the design and plan. This site is meant to teach middle- and high-school level students about mythology and provide a resource for mythological information. Our greatest purpose is to help our fellow students acquire information about a topic that we are deeply interested in and want to share our knowledge about.

Who We Are: This is a small description of each of the student creators, as well as the coach. All of us attend Montgomery Blair High School in the Math, Science, and Computer Science Magnet Program.

Anahita (Ana) --
Ana is a junior at Montgomery Blair High School. She studies Middle Eastern dance and takes pride in her Persian culture, which is a great advantage when studying myths from around the world. She enjoys hiking, dancing, watching movies, and running after her little brothers incessantly. Ana wrote several of the myths on the site and did some French translation.

Tencia --
Tencia is a junior at Montgomery Blair High School. When not avoiding her homework, Tencia IMs her friends, sings, does theatre and wushu, a form of martial arts, and paints. She worked on graphic design, writing myths, and coding the quizzes. She also did the majority of French version of the site.

Sheila --
Sheila is a junior at Montgomery Blair High School. She write for her school newspaper, Silver Chips, and is an A-team member of the school's It's Academic team. She loves to read almost anything, watch Dustin Hoffman movies, and the color blue. She did the basic layout design of the website, as well as writing up the text-only form of the website, this description of us, and several myths.

Min --
Min is a junior at Montgomery Blair High School with a penchant for taking over the world. Unable to accomplish her life goal right now, she is vaguely content to webdesign, dress monochromatically, and worship Nixon. She created the world map, wrote myths, and compiled the bibliography.

Coach Karen Collins --
Ms. Collins, a computer science teacher for the Magnet Program at Montgomery Blair High School, was instrumental in getting this project together. She assisted us with the coding for the quizzes, with understanding the material required on the site, and with questions we had about HTML code. Without her, this project would never have been completed successfully, and we give her the utmost gratitude for her hard work.

The Making of The Dawn and Dusk of Man: We put a lot of effort into making this website. Because we all attend the same high school, we only met once at Sheila's house for several hours to plan layout options and assign tasks. After that, we communicated via e-mail, telephone, and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) to review and edit content, to preview graphics and layout design, and to ensure that everything was conducted on schedule.

The Dawn and Dusk of Man is a Thinkquest Mythology Project by Sheila, Min, Ana and Tencia of Montgomery Blair High School.