John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx has a student population of nearly 5,000. It is one of America's largest high schools.

My multiethnic students reside in the inner city. Many do not have access to technologies that would connect them to the Internet.

Indeed, many have no telephone, let alone computers.

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The students at John F. Kennedy high school take pride in announcing a new expansion of Learning About Leonardo beyond its initial arts and student creativity efforts.

We invite you to tour our new Arti FAQs 2100, a visually captivating, contagiously engaging, multimedia look at arts past history, a forward glance and future trip into 2100 as envisioned by John F. Kennedy High School students.

In response to site surveys and visitors' requests, we are pleased to offer two new challenging quizzes and the opportunity to achieve the Leonardo Key to the Future Art Gallery.

Take an advanced peek into Cities of the Future, the Peter Max inspired Mona Moo Kennedy Cow, and our digital divide dissolving efforts through FluidArts and the Virtual Africa River Festival.

We are confident as admirers of Leonardo's futuristic visions you will let Learning About Leonardo lead you to Arti FAQs 2100 to take this journey through a broader universe of Past, Present and Future.

We look forward to your visit and comments on this new module, our response to the Microsoft Beyond 2000 challenge.

This was a triumphant week. They met the Microsoft Challenge to predict Art 2100 through a research grounded review of the materpieces of art past and present and the creation of their own graphic depictions of Art 2100 complete with descriptions. The web site we created ArtiFAQ 2100 functions as an expansion of of our award winning Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling ThinkQuest project, which focused on an in depth multiple perspectives study of Leonardo as artist, inventor, futurist, scientist, writer and citizen of the world.

The students built on their expertise with multimedia production, web design, integration of rewards, music, use of copyright material and other internet skills to develop this captivating intellectually compelling and entertaining, substantive web resource.

Their efforts brought them a First Place distinction.

We will be receiving color printers, microscopes, digital video camera and scanner to enhance our lab.

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Yours truly,
Steve Feld

Arti FAQS 2100


Press Release - May 25, 2000 Bronx, New York

Preview 21OO today.
John F. Kennedy High School students meet the Microsoft Challenge.

Contact: Steve Feld sjfeld@erols.com

• Take a backward journey through Art History past to predict art, life and society in 21OO.

• Identify Art and Design trends past and present, that can be incorporated into a preferrable future.

• Step into the earliest Caves of Lascaux to see where art began.

• Explore an Egyptian tomb to find golden treasures.

• Go through the Classic Portal to view the Mona Lisa with her original columns.

• Move to Modern Art to understand motivations and methods.

• Peer into to Pointilism to gain new insights into painting.

• Progress to Pop Art to explore Peter Max and his influence.

• Quest for the Key to Knowlege. Solve the quiz to win the Key to the Future Art Gallery.

• View original student visions. Be captivated and challenged by their predictions and listen to enchanting music.

• Experience first hand how art can serve as the visual key to past achievements and foster future forecasts and inventions.

• Delve into our Digital Divide dissolving efforts through collaboration with FluidArts and the Virtual Africa River Festival.

• Be inspired to be part of ArtiFAQ 21OO

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