So we became one coach and one student, then we got another Egyptian student to get us the content of the web site. Then we found another two Egyptian coaches, one of them lives in the USA.

   It was decided to add programming skills like JavaScript and server-side scripting to the team. We tried to search a lot for another participant through the MyTQ system, but we got no one. Then our national partner suggested to forward our request to the other national partners of the other countries, and they will forward this request to their participants; and it happened!

   We got our Swiss team mate who was well skilled in Java Scripting and we were lucky for that. Then he worked hard to gain skills in CGI too, and he did.

   Our coaches were helping us in finding the resources needed for the content and the layout... There help is immensely appreciated.

   Our meetings were not those periodical ones, but they were through short intervals of time. Our meetings were held either by ICQ or eGroups chat facilities, to see the web site progress, share ideas and realize our team collaboration, as it was a little hard to assemble programming skills with designing skills through different countries.

 Well... Now let us have a free talk for each one of us...

Amir
   Hey! I'm Amir, one of the Egyptian members for the team! First I would like to thank all my mates who helped me through the process of establishing this web site. It was really great and new for me to make an overseas team, and collaborate with a far Swiss mate! But we did it and completed our web site at last.

   Well... I'm the one who was responsible for all the layout things, including graphics, layout design and animations.. Isn't it good ?? hahaha... Of course it took me a huge time making this layout and applying it to all the pages, with no broken links, and no missed parts! This also was a bit difficult, as Mohamed and I were in the last year in our school, and we had to study hard and do well in our exams, so we had to start our work after the exams which ended in June 22nd, so we had only about 53 days or something. But we made the miracle, and finished our work in time... Just in time..

Dominique
   HEY HEY ! I'm Dominique the "Swiss one".
   Well in the beginning I have to say that this year ThinkQuest was for me a great experience most of all because I discovered that working thousands miles away from each other was now possible! Thanks to the net :-)

   In more technical words I was the one in charge of the interactive (scripts) stuff! I knew JavaScript, Java and HTML before I came on that team, but on our first chat they told me 'Now boy you HAVE to learn CGI's because we are going to need them a lot'. So I started to study the server-side languages and to read books about the art of server making.

   It interested me so much that I made my own Apache server to test our application. I found a real passion in the server world and that's because of my TQ2000 team, so thanks a lot to them, and to you ,guys, who are visiting this website that cost us a lot of time, but gave us, for sure, a lot of joy too :-)

Mohamed
   It's the first time for me to participate in such a contest, but it was really great to do. When I started getting the content of the web site, it was really difficult, coz the web site subject is dealing with a scientific topic, and I'm not that good in those scientific stuff. But Amir and our coaches helped me a lot in understanding those kind of stuff, and then I was on my way to complete the content. I got to look in many sources, and I found just two to get all what we needed!

   Then I had to filter the content from extra information, and understand all the copyright materials, so we can get the appropriate permissions. At last I turned in my work all to Amir to put it on the web site, and my job was finished! How great! I really hope to meet all my team in the Award ceremony in Egypt this year, I need to thank them all for doing all this great job. 

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