Click here to see the site design process.  Site Description: The site will serve as an interactive learning experience for investing in the stock market. Strategies on many levels will be provided, from the novice to the experienced investor. Primary through secondary levels will have access to lessons that incorporate powerful computing tools in order to create smart investing decisions. Such sections as latest stories, market news, stock news, and tech stories will feature in-depth reports on investing. Our Investing Chat feature allows for a fully interactive experience with other teen investors that have a desire to learn more about investing. When you utilize this site's interactivity and educational value to your advantage, your ability to make logical investing decisions will dramatically increase. - Team Profile: Eric Steigelman: webmaster@steigelman.com I have been involved with computers before it was common to see hard drives in them. Along my journey for technology I was able to contribute critical skills to this project. I have been designing graphics for four years, working with Photoshop, Fireworks, Paint Shop Pro, Imago, and FreeHand. Along with graphic design I wanted to implement them into a web page. I have been designing web pages for four years as well. I use such tools and languages as MS FrontPage, Dreamweaver, DrumBeat, NotePad, CoffeeCup, Flash, HomeSite, HTML, DHTML, and Java Script. I also have a substantial amount of hardware and software knowledge. I was far from being an advanced investor before we constructed this site. Thus, I could not contribute many unique investing skills to the team. - Anand Vankawala: desihomie@hotmail.com I am just one of your regular techies. I love to learn anything about computers and the Internet. I have been working with websites for about two years now and have been able to help Eric. Even though he is the main programmer/designer we both have our fair share of input. I have been interested with investing for quite some time now. I love doing market research in order to decide on which stocks to invest in. I share this same quality with my father. My love for research stems from loving to use resources around me, to learn, to explore, and to see the world differently. I guess I can be considered an optimistic stock market analyst, a rare breed. The focus of my attention spans to the NASDAQ due to the fact that I grew up in this technological era. - Team Formation: Agreeing on a common topic did not involve as much confrontation as we would have thought. First we decided to meet during our lunch break in our coach's room. We decided to brainstorm ideas that we are all interested in. Anand came up with the idea to write each member's name on the marker board and list under it what topics we are interested in. Both Anand and Eric had investing listed under their name. We knew we were getting somewhere. By the end of our lunch break, we were able to agree upon two things. We were hungry and we had chosen investing as our ThinkQuest topic. Eric went right to work designing our site. In order to show Anand his creations he would Email him a digital image of his easel containing scratchwork of possible interfaces. After Eric had created three different designs, he arrived on the one he liked the most. We both agreed on the design. Almost all information as far as researched content and design content was sent by Email. Our goal was to present a clear and user-friendly design that would make navigation very easy. He began implementing information that Anand had researched. Eric began adding content that Anand had written from a variety of sources. Even his investing lessons had a specific writing design intended. Using it as a template for the other pages, we began researching the material for our site. Anand researched many sources including the internet, books, magazines, and newspapers. - Educational Objective: Our entry is designed to educate users on several levels of comprehension. Along with current stories of the material, we provided three different sections for learning. They include novice, intermediate, and advanced. Each section holds information about the subject on that level. The contents in each level are design to help the user become a more knowledgeable investor. Upon completion and understanding of each level they will be prepared to move ahead to the next level. Each section of stories contains current information geared towards teens about investing. With the investing strategies page, anyone can learn how to invest with even more confidence than before. We set our goals to high standards with the intention of creating resource for investing knowledge.