By Jason, Sizwe and Janine (27629) on Monday, April 10, 2000 - 12:40 pm:
10th April 2000
Hi, this is Jason and Janine reporting from the Learning Metropolis, in conjunction with the APEC Educational Ministerial Meeting 2000. Since this morning, we have been presenting "20th: The Passing of a Century" to kids and educators from the various schools.
I hope you catched us at Questlink, The Learning Metropolis, Suntec City, Singapore!
By Jason, Sizwe and Janine (27629) on Monday, April 10, 2000 - 12:38 pm:
10th April 2000
Greetings to all visitors!
This update is coming to you from The Learning Metropolis exhibition in Singapore!
At this education fair held in conjunction with the APEC ministerial meeting, Thinkquest is one of the featured collaborative projects.
Both of us are here to talk about our experiences abnd filed questions about our site, meeting with educators and students from around the world.
Thanks to all who have made this possible and visit us again soon to continue making 20th: The Passing of a Century one of the most popular education resources there is!
Jason & Janine
By Jason, Sizwe and Janine (27629) on Saturday, December 11, 1999 - 07:00 pm:
22nd November 1999
Great News!
The Passing of a Century has won a ThinkQuest Silver Award. The team thoroughly enjoyed themselves in Los Angeles...photos coming soon.
Jason, Sizwe and Janine
Team 27629
By Jason, Sizwe and Janine (27629) on Monday, November 22, 1999 - 06:00 pm:
Well, now the whole team is actaully in Los Angeles at the ThinkQuest Finals Event! We're all really excited to finally meet in person after all this time: Thank you ThinkQuest!
Anyway, here's a little article I wrote with Janine for the ThinkQuest page so I thought I'd put it up here too.
Instant Friends: Just Add Awards Weekend
If you had a tracking system that displayed the global position of all the cool people in the world, you would find that there was an unprecedented concentration of them in Los Angeles during the all-to-brief ThinkQuest Awards Weekend. And of course, now they’re all great friends.
I must say that the process of making new friends started the moment we arrived. I got to the Hilton at 3 a.m. on Saturday and immediately met my Indian roommate, Manas, who willingly sacrificed a couple of hours of sleep just to chat. He was the first friend I made during the weekend.
And friendship was a recurring theme that was played out throughout the weekend. Although everyone at the ThinkQuest finals has a diverse background, they all share certain things: a strong passion for their work, an appreciation of computers, and a wish to make new friends.
Naturally, it helped that the Awards Weekend gathered together a truly exceptional and inspiring group of people. Undoubtedly, the concentration of boundless energy and brilliant minds was amazing. Everyone here was incredibly friendly and just so interesting in his or her own way. The only problem was finding enough time to meet everyone. I know I certainly spent every moment I could simply talking and meeting new people, and yet I never met even half of the teens here (not to mention coaches, Tomorrow’s Teachers and national partners, etc.).
Not all of the people were total strangers. It was amazing for me to look around the room and see nametags of people with whom I’d been communicating via the ‘net but had not had the opportunity to meet until now. For months these people had been just names and text but suddenly they exploded into full 3-D.
“The ThinkQuest Awards Weekend has been a time of Exchange of Ideas between People who have done a common project with a common goal. The synergy of varied experiences, abilities, technological backgrounds, interests and countries is unmistakable. ThinkQuest is where you forge life-long bonds!”
What impressed me most, was just how quickly people came together. Perhaps the months of not being able to meet anyone else from ThinkQuest gave us a thirst to really know these remarkable people, especially if they were your teammates or coaches. I now feel as if I’ve known my team and all our coaches forever.
While many relationships and friendships were started before the Awards Weekend, countless more were formed over the weekend. Old ones were strengthened beyond imagination. I guess that in a decade or so, when all the glamour of the weekend has faded away and our entries are ancient history, the friendships we’ve formed will still be with us. I certainly hope that they last a lifetime.
Jason & Janine
“The Passing of a Century”
By Jason, Sizwe and Janine (27629) on Sunday, October 24, 1999 - 03:57 pm:
24th October 1999
13th Award: By TMC Designs... read their review! (Page2)
By Jason, Sizwe and Janine (27629) on Wednesday, October 20, 1999 - 09:06 am:
2 October 1999
12th award:
Silver Star Site Award
by TeamCreations
By Jason, Sizwe and Janine (27629) on Saturday, October 2, 1999 - 12:26 am:
1 October 1999
11th award:
Awarded by none other than Yahooligans! ...read on (Page2)
By Jason, Sizwe and Janine (27629) on Monday, September 20, 1999 - 03:38 am:
20 September 1999
10th Award!
Read what InternetBrothers.com has to say about our site...View!(Page2)
By Jason, Sizwe and Janine (27629) on Tuesday, September 14, 1999 - 09:18 am:
14 September 1999
A new customised award graphic from...the Family Voice! view! (Page2)
By Jason, Sizwe and Janine (27629) on Tuesday, September 14, 1999 - 06:00 am:
Amazing!
14 September 1999
You are the Editor's Choice! <Techmall.com>
read on!...(Page2)
By Jason, Sizwe and Janine (27629) on Monday, September 13, 1999 - 06:13 am:
13 September 1999
8th Award: Steliart Productions Cool Site Award
COOL: The Cool Site Award is issued to sites with good quality... read on! (Page2)
By Jason, Sizwe and Janine (27629) on Friday, September 10, 1999 - 04:59 am:
10 September 1999
7th Award: Award of Excellence
from Home and Hearth
Ben Ciolczynski: I was very impressed by all the hard work you have put into the site and have to congratulate you on a wonderful achievement... read on!(Page2)
By Jason, Sizwe and Janine (27629) on Tuesday, September 7, 1999 - 10:04 pm:
8 September 1999
6th Award: APFG Silver Award
Andy's Place for Graphics
Congratulations on winning the APFG Silver Award!
Graphics, navigation, content and layout all scored high marks. Job well done!
By Jason, Sizwe and Janine (27629) on Tuesday, September 7, 1999 - 10:00 pm:
8 September 1999
5th Award: A Site to Behold
by Colleen's Corner
I enjoyed my visit to your site, The Passing of a Century, very much. Your pages are all wonderfully done with very interesting and
informative content. This is a truly marvellous site.
Jason, Sizwe, and Janine, I am so very impressed with this site. It is filled with creativity, and information, but also has a sense of humanity and compassion. A wonderful job!
Congratulations and keep up the great work. I know I will be back to visit again very soon.
By Jason, Sizwe and Janine (27629) on Tuesday, September 7, 1999 - 12:32 pm:
8 September 1999
Another Award!
Before we could finish announcing the arrival of our first three, here comes a fourth Award!
The Passing of a Century has won the
Web Site of Distinction Award
From Whatisthis.com
Here's what was said: Very nice site.. I was very impressed with the large amount of content. The web site of distinction award is yours!
By Jason, Sizwe and Janine (27629) on Tuesday, September 7, 1999 - 12:13 pm:
8 September 1999
First Awards!
We are extremely excited at receiving our first three awards. Firstly, the Web Excellence Award. Secondly, the Absolutely Breathtaking Award and thirdly, I Did It All By Myself Award.
Janine, Sizwe and Jason would like to extend their thanks to Teresa of Family Voice for extending these awards to The Passing of a Century and for her extremely encouraging comments:
Congratulations! You are a winner at The Family Voice! You have acheived what most web designers only wish they could.
Your design and consideration for the viewer is superb, and the educational value is truely amazing....Janine, Sizwe and Jason, you take my breath away!
This site is maintained by a team of 3 outstanding students. The navigation, layout and consideration for the viewer are of the utmost quality. The educational material is truly magnificent!
from the Family Voice
By Jason, Sizwe and Janine (27629) on Tuesday, September 7, 1999 - 01:48 am:
7 September 1999
This site is a nominee for the prestigious Eye Candy WWW Site Reviews web award.
By Jason, Sizwe and Janine (27629) on Tuesday, September 7, 1999 - 02:01 am:
16 August 1999
CREDITS
With our site up, we would like to extend our thanks to various people whom we are greatly indebted to and without whom we would never have made it this far.
Robin Opperman: Sizwe's coach has been a constant inspiration and willing guinea-pig for the constant revisions of our site. We wish we could thank him in person (and maybe we will...). Thanks a lot, and we really mean it.
Our other coaches, Mrs Aileen Chor and Ms Tan BC, who have patiently giuded us and tirelessly handled all the various paperwork neccessary for the completion of our site.
Of course, we have to thank the national Thinkquest partners: Ms. Judy Lee in Singapore and Ms Penny Busetto in South Africa for helping us contact the Thinkquest organisers to get Sizwe added to our team.
Also, we would like to thank Ms Lucille Yap, Curator at the Singapore Philatelic Museum, who kindly gave us advice on using stamps as illustrations.
In addition, we also extend our gratitude to all our family and friends who have helped us in one one way or another. Thank you all.
Lastly, we would like to thank each other, for being committed and enthusiastic to the end. We will always value the bonds of freindship we have forged through the making of this site.
Jason, Sizwe and Janine
Thinkquest '99 Team 27629