About Us
We're a group of six fourth and fifth graders from Sherwood School in Highland Park, Illinois. Sherwood School is an elementary school with grades Kindergarten-5th. You can see Sherwood' s website by clicking here.
The kids who designed this site are Kevin, Mike, Bryan, Linden, Debbie, and Melanie. We were chosen last December by teachers after we filled out applications to be on the ThinkQuest Jr. team. This is the third year Sherwood School has participated in Thinkquest Junior.
Our team decided to do a site on Chicago architecture because we live near Chicago, and we study Chicago history. We also chose this topic because Chicago architecture is very interesting and unique and others should know about it.
We worked very hard on this site. We gave up many recesses, came in early some mornings, stayed after school, worked during our free time, and even came in on the weekends. We had to do a lot of research in order to do all these reports. We got information about Chicago architecture in books, encyclopedias, and internet sites. We also interviewed architects by sending them questions by e-mail. Our group went one Sunday in January to Chicago and Oak Park to go on architectural tours. We took some pictures, and got more information on Chicago's buildings.
When we had all our reports done we had to design and make the web pages, and put information on the pages that we designed. When that was done, we added a timeline, a links page, we drew some pictures, made a Frank Lloyd Wright tour page, and linked pages from one to the other. We used Appleworks, Home Page, PhotoDeluxe, and Fireworks to create our site. We did editing and troubleshooting on our site, then it was done.
Two teachers worked with us on this project. Mr. Brooks was our awesome group leader and Mr. Shaw was our fabulous technical advisor. ThinkQuest Jr. is a great web contest. With all the time and effort we put in this site, we hope you enjoy it.
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