Students:
[Nancy Fung] | [Maurice de Laat] | [Jeffrey Janssen]
Coaches:
[Strijbos] | [Sharon] | [Byron]
Welcome to our site. I hope you enjoy it. I am Nancy and I am from Seattle, Washington. I just graduated from high school and started my first quarter of college this summer at the University of Washington.
I had participated in ThinkQuest last year and created a site about how the legends of vampire and werewolves originated. This year my team researched and created a site on light waves. My responsibilities within the site were to research and edit text. My two teammates are from Holland, and English is not their first language; therefore they researched and wrote the text in English and I went over it with my two coaches to check their grammar.
I have to give thanks to my two partners who have done all the beautiful graphics. Both of them have been wonderful teammates. I would also like to thank my coaches for all their help. I must say I learned a lot myself about light waves while researching for this site. I joined ThinkQuest last year and this year in order to gain experience and to challenge myself. I became more familiar on creating a web site and what a professional site would look like. I also find computers interesting. I had the opportunity to assemble my own computer from an Upward Bound class and have been interested in computers since that time. I even set up a little network with my two computers at home. Other than computers I also enjoy playing sports such as volleyball and tennis.
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Hi, let me introduce myself: My name is Maurice de Laat and I am 17 years old. I live in Budel, a town south of The Netherlands.
This is my second year participating in ThinkQuest. Last year I created an entry about
Egypt. I participated in ThinkQuest because I like the idea of students making educational sites for students. The Internet is overloaded with useless information and thanks to ThinkQuest there are more good informative sites on the Internet. ThinkQuest have also allowed me to design Internet sites and images. On this site I worked on the images, research and layout design. However, most of the elements we worked on together as a team and without my teammates I would never have realized a site like this.
When I am not designing Internet sites I play Tiberian Sun over the Internet or work on the computer, I play volleyball or spend time with my girlfriend.
Oh, and I almost forgot: Thanks for visiting...
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First of all, I want to thank you for visiting our site. I hope you enjoyed it, or if you have not looked around yet, please do. To introduce myself, I am Jeffrey Janssen, I live in a small town called Nederweert in The Netherlands. I am 16 years old and turning 17 soon.
As someone who is addicted to computers, I spend hours behind one. During the development of the site I had been behind a computer almost all day
. However, working on the site is not the lonely think I do on the computer. On my spare time I play Quake III Arena over the Internet, and fraggin' my friends with Unreal Tournament over our LAN.
Programming is another thing I like to do. I have created almost every Jave Applet on the site (the interactive elements in the behavior section, the puzzle game and the lightsout game) and the CGI scripts (classroom). However, the site could not be what it is without the help of my teammates and coaches, so I would like to thank them for all the work they did!
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Coach: J. Strijbos (1944). Occupation: teacher French. Hobbies: electronics, computers and playing on the guitar.
Of course it was the combination teacher-geek, that was the reason to attract the attention of the students for ThinkQuest. Consistency: You are almost automatically asked to be a coach.
Tasks: Critical judging about the website, placing correcting comments and stimulating the team to use new technics, like Flash, CGI and Java, to create interactivity with the user. We had to search for a balance between a very slow and a very fast, but boring site.
But most important: Giving the team confidence to let them realize they are doing a great job. A coach should not put his own ideas in the site, it is not the site of the coach, but it is the site of the team.
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Sharon is an instructor at the University of Washington. She teaches in a summer program called Upward Bound and also an instructor for a Bridge program where she teaches a General Studies classes. The Bridge program is for incoming freshmen' and the students focus on research, study skills, and life skills to help them be successful in college.
This is Sharon's first year coaching a ThinkQuest team. She was introduced to ThinkQuest through the Upward Bound program. Nancy, one of her students in the General Studies class, asked Sharon to participate as a coach. Sharon has great writing skills and helped the team revise their text.
In addition to teaching, Sharon loves reading, buying bookings, strolling with her husband (Ben), chatting with her children, chasing her grandchildren, and visiting with good friends.
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Byron is a physics instructor at the University of Washington. He tutors students in physics during the academic school year and during the summer he teaches a web class and is in charge of a computer lab for the Upward Bound program. He was formerly a nuclear engineer in the navy.
This is his second year coaching for a ThinkQuest team. Last year he had also coached for Nancy's team. This year he coached for her team again. He helped the team revise their physics, making sure that their physics was correct.
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