Name: Batuka
Age: 17
Role: Photographing
School: Mongolia International University

Name: Badaa
Age: 17
Role: Web Designing,
School: Secondary School #18

Name: Edde
Age: 18
Role: Animation
School: Secondary School #3

Name: Tulga
Age: 16
Role: Animation
School: Mongolian Russian Joint High School #3

Name: Mandukhai
Age: 17
Role: Translating
School: Mongolian Russian Joint High School #3

Name: Aaska
Age: 17
Role: Translating
School: Mongolian Russian Joint High School #3

COACHES

Yong Gyu Lee

E-mail: yonggyulee@post.harvard.edu
Employee: World History Professor at Mongolia International University

Saranbaatar Dorj

E-mail: moonhero8@yahoo.com
Employee: Board Member of Amnesty International in Mongolia

Badaa and I were classmates, so, we have known each other for 5 years. Badaa made couples of webs about our class. So, he has experiences to construct the web. As Edde, I’ve known him for a year. He helped me to present about Mongolia in Japan. He made an animation for my presentation. Of course, he is good at working at Macromedia Flash. Last March I met Mrs. Oyunchimeg. She is chairman of our district. She gave me that CD-ROM about ThinkQuest. After I knew about ThinkQuest I decided to participate that competition with Badaa and Edde. I told them then, they fortunately appreciated that idea. First we were going to create web about Mongolian Secret History. But sources are very limited. Then I saw Mrs. Oyunchimeg, she recommended us Geser, which is very famous fairy tale in Mongolia. Firstly we were just talking, talking and talking! Nothing was made physically. During summer Mandukhai called me and asked me, “Hey, do you know ThinkQuest?” I told her “Sure! I know!” She recommended that let’s participate ThinkQuest together and said, “I have team and please join us.” So, I told about my team, she was surprised and we became one team. Then we met each other and told about our subject, design and sources of our website. Then we gave responsibility of each member of team.

Actually, we had many problems. We didn’t have enough powerful computers to do everything of our web. So we did our jobs at our home, separately. Then we need to move our data to necessary place we had difficulty, because we haven’t handy drive. So we moved the data by many floppy disks (diskettes). That’s very difficult sometimes it breaks very easily.
We hadn’t any place to see each other, so we used to see each other at The National Museum of Mongolian History. Because I used to do voluntary work there. So, staffs of NMMH helped us to collect some information and photos, especially Mr. Ayush and Mrs. Oyunkhai.
Sometimes we don’t sleep whole night. Because we do something, which are sharing idea…, etc.

This fall I entered to university. Thus I met one professor, who has graduated from Harvard University. He is Mr. Yong Gyu Lee, who is World History Professor and primary coach of our team. Before I meet him we hadn’t decided yet our coaches. Then he gave some advices and some information about Mongolian Empire.
Our secondary coach is brother of Edde. He also always advised us about method of starting our work.

And very special thanks for following people:

Mrs. Oyunchimeg (Chairman of Khan-Uul District’s Society Affairs, Ulaanbaatar)
Mr. Ayush (Staff of National Museum of Mongolian History)
Mrs. Oyunkhai (Staff of National Museum of Mongolian History)
Mr. Bruce Kay (English Conversation Professor of Mongolia International University)
Mrs. Jan Kay (English Conversation Professor of Mongolia International University)
All parents of us.