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  Team 13779 This is our team's second ThinkQuest entry. Last year, in the 1996 ThinkQuest contest, our team entered a web site on the topic of cellular biology. The Interactive Tour of The Cell won third place in the Science and Mathematics category. We enjoyed the awards event in Washington D.C. very much, and we decided that we would enter again in the ThinkQuest contest. Our team learned an enormous amount about creating web pages and the CGI environment last year, and we are applying it to The Climbing Guide this year.

Saro, our team leader, lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, and attends Lexington High School. Lexington High School, being in close proximity to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a very technologically advanced school, with high speed Internet access and multiple servers.

Jason also lives Lexington and attends Lexington High School. He enjoys mathematics and is an accomplished pianist.

Ben lives in Palmer, Alaska. He is an avid rock climber and a student at Palmer High School. Palmer is a small agricultural community in south-central Alaska, close to the Talkeetna Mountains.

Our three coaches are Rick Thibeault (Lexington), Diane Eisner (Lexington), and Steve Krueger (Palmer).
Jassen Michael Jassen Michael helped us by appearing in some of our pictures and our movies. We appreciated his help. Jassen can be contacted at:

rmichael@alaska.net
Andy Hoyt Andy Hoyt endured several hours of posing, flashes, and chalk dust, both indoors and out so that we could produce the pictures and movies on this web site. We owe him a big thanks. Andy can be contacted at:

andyh@phs.mat-su.k12.ak.us

Climbing Magazine

 Climbing Magazine and Elk Mountain Press donated Ice Tools and Technique, by Duane Raleigh, and Rock Tools and Technique, by Michael Benge and Duane Raleigh to aid us in our research of rock and ice climbing. They have granted us permission to reproduce parts of their books here, with credit given to the books if so desired. They can be reached at:

Elk Mountain Press
1101 Village Road
Carbondale, Colorado 81623
(970) 963-9449

REI

 Some equipment that we felt necessary to be included in the web site we did not own, and we were not able to get pictures of, so we contacted Recreational Equipment Incorporated and they granted us permission to use pictures from their web site. REI can be reached at:

REI
Sumner, WA 98352
1-800-426-4840
or
1-206-891-2500

Rock and Ice

 We contacted Rock and Ice magazine for support with our site, and they sent us a certificate for a free subscription, which we included as the award for the first excellent report of a climbing trip organized through our web site. Rock and Ice magazine can be contacted at:

603A South Broadway
Boulder, CO 80303
USA
303/499-8410
Matnet, Inc. Matnet, Inc. is an Internet Service provider that allowed us to use some of their computers and equipment for creating our web site. We used their color scanner and to produce many of the pictures shown here. They also allowed us to use their network resources when it came time for us to upload our web pages. Matnet can be contacted at:

http://www.matnet.com/

webmaster@matnet.com
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