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This website was created for the 2000 ThinkQuest Junior National Competition. It was awarded the Silver prize in the Art and Literature Category. We want to thank the judges and other professionals who took the time to review our website.

Katie, Kim and Madeline

"You have done an incredible job creating a website that's informative, creative and a lot of fun to experience. You've done a great job researching and editing important text and matching it with really cool graphic images."
- Joel Schwartzberg, Editor-in-Chief

Click Here to read a letter we received from
Vice President Al Gore!
Click Here to read a letter we received from President Bill Clinton
Click Here to read a letter we received from
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton

"Classroom Connect has selected your site as a Bookmark It! Top site of the Month: http://connectedteacher.classroom.com/library/search.asp Click on Bookmark It! Thank you!" - Sharon Wheeler

Image Link to the Franklin Institute Website

Image Link to the Technology and Learning Center Website

See Our Tips For Making Student Websites in the August 2000 issue of Technology and Learning Magazine

Image Link to the USA Today Best Bet Website

Image Link to the Golden Web Award Website

Image Link to the NYC Board of Education Website

Click Here to read a letter we received from the Mayor of New York City, Rudolph W. Giuliani
Click Here to read a letter we received from New York State Congressman Anthony Weiner

"We absolutely agree that art rights is a vital topic in this new, interactive medium, especially with so many kids creating their own Web sites and so many teachers needing a good resource on the issues and interests involved."

"Keep making web pages! Don't stop when this project or school ends. Young people especially need to get their points of view out there on the web."
Lynn Siprelle, Editor, The New Homemaker

"Your site has been accepted for inclusion on Educating.net, the Internet's premiere award-winning Education Portal. We review all site submissions, but only accept sites that are of the highest quality."

"This is information every student should understand in a digital environment in which it is easy to copy and paste material. Be sure you know how to give credit to others where necessary."

"Thank you for your e-mail, and informing us of the very useful Web site you and your teammates have created. We were so impressed with your achievement that we have provided a link for you in our Links Library's Art Resources Section."
- Katy Kianush Webmaster

Image Link to the Network Nugget Website

"If you, or your teacher, subscribe to "Network Nuggets" by early September as explained at the bottom of the email, then you will see your site being described to thousands of teachers around the world. Best regards." - Dave Rogers

Image Link to the Awesome Library Website

"Congratulations! Your site has been selected for inclusion in the Awesome Library, a collection of the top 5% of sites in the field of K-12 education."

Image Link to the Critical Mass Award Website

"A very nice site, excellent design, clever original graphics, great photos, and your content is informative, entertaining, presented well and easy to access. A worthy enterprise and a positive contribution to the Web."

"This is a great site! We'll be happy to promote it on MiddleWeb and let all the teachers who visit our site know about it. I hope they'll send their students to visit and get some ideas about Thinkquest projects of their own. "
- John Norton, Middle Web editor

Image Link to the Cyber Sketchbook Website

"I would like to add a link to it from the Cyber Sketchbook on our reviews page. You have done an outstanding job. This is an issue very close to my and many other artists hearts. Keep up the good work! I am leading a staff development for teachers this summer and I will surely refer them to your site!"
- Terry Gibbon

"Wow! Great Job! I really appreciate when the kids do the teaching. I loved the design and layout - whimsical, yet super-informative! I put a link and description to your kid's work on the Building a Webpage page on my site.
Thanks for the hard work!" - Mark Exworthy

"You have provided a valuable resource with your website, because as more and more kids get online with their own material, they should understand why they need to protect themselves, as well as not taking other people's work without their permission. Your material on licensing is very important, and is another topic which can be applied to my characters, the Rainbow Raccoons." - Gregg Ostick

"Your web site, Art Rights and Wrongs, has been selected as the WorldVillage Family Site of the Day for June 27th, 2000! The editors at WorldVillage in honor and recognition of the web's finest family-friendly sites choose this award. Selected by the Family PC family testers as a recommended site for families, WorldVillage receives over 250,000 visitors each month. We hope that you will enjoy the traffic you receive from our site, as you certainly deserve it. This is a very cool site. It is also great to see young ones involved not only interested in creating a website, but creating one that has such a positive message."

"I am requesting permission to link to your most fantastic children's copyright site to my newly created 7th grade computer class homepage. I know it would be a tremendous knowledge base for my students and since the site is written by your kids, I think it would serve as a great inspiration."
Bonnie Brown
Picacho Middle School
Las Cruces, New Mexico

"It is our pleasure to add quality websites such as yours to our own educational resources."
Melissa McHarg, StudyWeb Editor
The Lightspan Partnership

"WOW! I am really impressed with the amount of work you did to compile the information on copyright issues. This site would be very beneficial for teachers to use to teach our students about copyright issues. This topic is a big part of the North Carolina Technology Skills Curriculum. Thank you for sharing it with me. May I have permission to share the URL for your site with the other Instructional Technology Specialists, Media Specialists, and webmasters in my school system? I would like to create a link to your website from our Ultimate Web Sites page. Ultimate Web Sites is a list of web resources for teachers and students."
Cindy Cooper, Technology Specialist
Oak View Elementary Guilford County Schools

"Congratulations on creating an excellent site covering copyright issues. I especially like the way you encourage young people to contact artists to request permission and I think you do a great job of showing them that they have an interest in copyright themselves."

Jamie McKenzie Editor
"From Now On - The Educational Technology Journal"

"We like your Web site very much; it's well done and on an important topic. I am planning a new art page at The Chunky Monkey Fan Club and think that a link to your site would work nicely from that page."

"What a wonderful Web site you have created! I am very impressed by the amount of research you obviously put into developing this very, very useful site. As a matter of fact, it's now in my bookmarks so that I can refer to the materials you've collected."
Terry D'Erchia
USGS Office of Biological Informatics and Outreach

"Intellectual Property is very complex and very misunderstood. You and your team did a great job with explaining the subject on your website. I've included the Education Editors for our Web site on this email to make them aware of your site. Have you checked out our Learning section? http://www.nytimes.com/learning/ "
Hilda Cosmo, Rights and Contracts Manager
The Times Company Digital Division of The New York Times Company

"What a wonderfully informative sight you and your team have built. Your timing is also excellent as this is a topic of much concern to all webmasters and graphic artists who wish to use and protect their creations and those of others. Your advice and examples should go a long way toward "legitimizing" the use of others creations on our own web sites." - Ron Keller, Webmaster

Image Link to the Education World Website

"Very nice! Wonderful way to teach kids ethics. Keep up the good work." - Alexandra York

"I am a reporter of education in Taiwan. Surfing by this Amazingly interesting web site "Yo, It's Time for Braces" I am truly impressed with your students' work. Mandarin Daily News is a Chinese newspaper in Taiwan for children. I am reporting on amazing web sites created by children around the world. I believe children in Taiwan learning English would enjoy seeing YOUR TEAM. At your web site, they would pick up lots of new English vocabulary and learn the important lesson of copyrights. You can check out the newspaper web site. It is in Chinese. See http://www.mdnkids.com.tw. "
Christina Chang
Taipei, Taiwan
Mandarin Daily News

Image Link to the Busy Educator Awards Website

"I am pleased to award your site the Busy Educator's Award. Your site will also be included in an upcoming issue of my Busy Educator's Newsletter and considered for inclusion in the next edition of my book "The Busy Educator's Guide To The World Wide Web" and in my Highlights from The Busy Educator's Newsletter spot on my web site."

Marjan Glavac
The Busy Educator's Website

Image Link to the Yahoo Internet Life Website

Madeline is featured in the September 2000 issue of Yahoo Internet Life for the "Yo, It's Time For Braces" 1999 Thinkquest Junior Platinum-winning website.

To read a review of our site from Karen Kreps, the Director of Electronic Communications for IICS
The International Interactive Communications Society
http://iics.org and Net Ingenuity, Inc. click here

"I found the "Artist Rights and Wrongs" site to be an exceptional resource for both young and old students as well as teachers. Madeline and her team have done an outstanding job of researching the topic and presenting it in a way that will inform and entertain all! I am the webmaster for the @rt room website currently at: http://www/arts/ufl.edu/art/rt_room/@rtroom/home.html
In the @rtroom there is a links page for art sites for kids. I will certainly be including a link to the Art Rights and Wrongs site. I also write web site reviews for School Arts Magazine which is popular with art teachers. I will be writing a review for the site which should appear in print later this school year."

CRAIG ROLAND, Associate Professor - Art Education
School of Art and Art History, FAC 302,
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
http://grove.ufl.edu/~rolandc/homepage.html
new email address: rolandc@ufl.edu

"The subject matter you have addressed (copyright and trademark infringement) is a cutting edge subject, especially when applied to the Internet. Today's atmosphere of the Internet is one of a "free for all" that seems to have no end. As editors of one of the leading directories to the Best of the Web:
http://infoseek.go.com/WebDir/Internet/Searching_and_
exploring/Best_of_the_Web
we are faced with issues of copyrights and trademark everyday. Art Rights and Wrongs has tackled subjects many site specializing in legal issues have not yet addressed. It is very encouraging to see such bright, articulate and conscientious students getting their feet wet in the Web industry. Michael Wetmore, M.A. Ph.D.
Editor, Starting Page!
stpg2000@home.com

Image Link to the Association of American Publishers Website

See a link to our site under the "Of Special Interest" section on the Home Page of the American Association of Publishers Home Page (September 1, 2000)

Image Link to the Generatiion Yes Website

"It is always great to see what students are doing. I will indeed pass it along to other teachers and kids. It is a helpful resource for them to use. I want to congratulate you for taking on such an important topic. Your site has a lot of useful information and I can see that you did extensive research on the topic. The site provides sound advice to new web builders."
Sunny Cairns
E-mail: sunny@genyes.org

Katie is interviewed in the September/October 2000 issue of
Volta Voices, an A.G. Bell publication.
Click Here to See Interview