The main focus on the Thinkquest project is to learn and acquire new knowledge about the mysteries and discover the wonders of the black hole, and in turn, pass on our new found knowledge to people who will be accessing our website. Our main aim would be to introduce the black hole to people and probably let them think about the future possibilities that the black hole may bring to us.

By introducing many images and write-ups, we hope that these can provide people with a more all-rounded and clearer view of the complexity of the black hole. We hope to cultivate people's interest in the black hole to make them want to learn more about the black hole by simplifying as we can the concepts involved through our website.

Team members:

Du Weichao (Nationality: People Republic of China / Age: 18)
Tan Zhengru (Nationality: Singapore /Age: 17)
Teo Peiru (Nationality : Singapore / Age: 17)

Process:

1) Brush up our knowledge of our subject upon deciding, which would be the black hole. We did some reading ups while searching for relevant information.

2) We went to various community libraries and through the internet to ensure that we could learn and get hold of as much information on the various aspects of the black hole. This would require much cooperation and teamwork as many adjustments and arrangements were to be made to accommodate to the differences in the time schedules of the team members.

3) We asked around about people's general perception and their knowledge about Black Holes and selected materials that we think will be able to be accepted by the people and would be most beneficial to them.

4) Upon gathering much "raw" materials, the group members had to split equally to "process" the information, to try to leave our final product as easy to understand as well as to be able to provide a clear picture to the people visiting our website.

5) After this was done in a few weeks, we drew out a rough sketch of what we wanted the web site to look like and after agreeing on the design, the technical part had to be started. Our group leader being the most well versed in web page design, took the lead in coming up with templates, adding in the materials and all the other uploading stuff.

6) Many changes had to be made during this long and exhaustive process, design of the web page had to be altered time to time to accommodate the information that we had, which was susceptible to changes.

7) Finally, we had our evaluation on our final product, and made some minor adjustments to improve on the outlook and user-friendliness of the website.

Acknowledgments:

We would like to thank our supervising teachers: Mr Gi Soong Chee and Mr Goh Wee Sen, for giving us support to proceed with the project.

Besides, we also need to thank our friend, Elvin for helping us solve technical problems and others who have helped in one way or another.

Citation

Some pictures and content are taken from the following sources:

1. Title: Universe (Fifth Edition)
Authors: William J. Kaufmann III and Roger A. Freedman
Published by: W.H. Freeman & Company
Year: 1998
Pages: 588 to 607
Permission pending.

2. Title: The Search for Infinity (Solving the Mysteries of the Universe)
Authors: - Gordon Fraser
- Egil Lillestol
- Inge Sellevag
- Stephen Hawking
Published by : Mitchell beazley / Reed International Books Ltd
Year : 1994
Pages: 116 to 119
Permission pending.

3. Title: The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) report
Author: Timothy Ferris
Published by: Phoenix, London
Year: 1998
Permission pending.

4. Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Astronomy
Authors: Christopher De Pree and Alan Axelrod
Published by: Alpha books, New York
Year: 1999
Permission pending.
Some Images are taken from NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration).
(http://www.nasa.gov) and Space.com (http://www.space.com).

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