We're in the Money!
                                              "Lack of money is no obstacle.  Lack of an idea is an obstacle"
                                                                                                                     Ken Hakuta

                                                                                 
                    By:   Kimberly

     We took a field trip to visit a local numismatist during our study about money.  His name is
Pete Gray.  He has a lot of old money, including coins from a sunken Spanish galleon, and Civil War paper currency.  He told us a lot of things that we didn't find during our research, and we included
his information on our site.

                     Mr. Pete Gray shows members of our ThinkQuest team money from his large collection.
                     He told us a lot of useful information and it was fascinating to see money from the past.
                     He told us about why they made pennies from steel back in l943, and he gave each of us
                     a set of steel pennies.

       After our study on money, we did a cool art project and created our own "designer dough."  Here is how
       we did it.   First, we cut a piece of poster board 16"x 8".  Next, we painted our poster board with green water
       colors.  We took pictures of each other with a digital camera and loaded our pictures into the computer. 
       Then, we printed out our pictures with a black and white printer.  Next, we cut out our pictures and glued
       them  on our poster board.  Then we designed our bills.  See our finished product below.  We truly are in
       the money!
     

                               Thanks to Mr. Pete Gray at Opal's Jewelry for helping us with our research!