Carie-Butterfly I detect danger and tell them where and what the problem is. I'm the eyes of the pack and the map of the pack too! In building our website, I did all the Helpful Friends graphic files using the basic tools in Adobe PhotoShop. I also learned how to add texture in my pictures by using the magic wand and selecting a filter effect to texturize the area I chose to work with from the graphic. Using the filters and adding textures make the pictures look more realistic. I also thought up and created all the the activities in our Bugspackular games section. I did most of the coding connecting all our files together, although it was a team effort to plan out the entire web site and we each did many of the graphic files that are used. The coding was a challenge because I worked from notepad and typed in all the html tags, and at times figuring out where one file was going to lead to then connect on from there got confusing. A special type of coding I was able to do for the team was to create pop up files that would open up in smaller windows when you click on certain parts of the pages. I learned how to work with audio files and it was fun recording our voices to use as the voices for our Helpful Friends but next time we'll need to be more careful about making sure our recordings are clean and without static. We were not able to use many of our recordings because the static was too high and you could barely understand what was being said.	"Sunshine"
Kassy-FireFly I'm the brains of the pack and I am the one who tries to fix all of the problems that happen all over the world. The opening graphic for our website and the game maps were created by me, and to put it together I used Adobe PhotoShop. I enjoy creating graphics using different kinds of programs like Adobe PhotoShop, WebPainter for animations, and even the basic Paint. I was able to schedule our team's interviews with the Fire Captain and the lifeguard. My team members and I worked hard to make sure we had correct information to share as we published our website. We wanted to be sure the information we'd be sharing would be helpful and informative for who ever visits our site. Organizing the site was hard work. We storyboarded our plan on huge chart paper so we could keep track of our team's progress as we worked. It helped us to stay on track and was a constant reminder of how much work still had to get done. My voice was recorded for many of the audio recordings for our Helpful Friends...do you think you could identify which ones were me? I enjoyed recording those files because I was able to add in some special effects too.	"Sparkles"
Victor-StinkBug I tell the kids why they shoudn't do what they were about to do I'm the explainer of the group. While in Think Quest Junior, I learned how to use Adobe PhotoShop and its many tools and filters to create graphics and size images, web painter to create our animated graphic files, a digital camera and I also learned how to code web pages without a web editor, I used a simple text notepad. To the team I contributed 13 graphics, 2 animated graphics, and part of each of the resource files along with some of the coding for the pages. I also participated in the interviews we had with environmentalist Mr. David Boynton, lifeguard Mr. Orlando Anaya, Police Officer Ezra Kanoho and Fire Captain Greg Morishige. On our Planning Site, you will see some of the work that was involved in our project which started back in September. We met three days each week and as the deadline for the competition was nearing, we even started to meet during the weekends for full two-day sessions just so we could get our work done. We did a lot of background reading from books and pamphlets as well as from web sites so that we could be sure the information we'd be sharing was accurate, we spoke with experienced experts whose work focuses on safety, and we even volunteered some tutoring time in a first grade classroom so that we could get more familiar with what level of information younger children can work with and understand.	"Stinky"