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    Our team is made up of fifth graders.  We had a great time making the website and hope that you got lots of good information from it. 

    Hi!  My name is Penny.  I'm an 11 year old girl.  My favorite things are to play the flute, watch TV, play on the computer, and have fun with my friends.  My favorite things to do outside are basketball, softball, swimming, and riding my bike.  I like the color purple and pizza with NO cheese.  Winter is my favorite season 'cause every thing is all white and beautiful. 
    Of all the animals we studied, I like the bear the best.  I really enjoyed making this site and hope you like it, too.

    My name is Jennie.  I am an 11 year old girl.  Some of my hobbies outside of ThinkQuest are playing the clarinet, watching TV, playing on the computer, and hanging with my friends.  My favorite colors are blue and purple.  Some sports I enjoy are soccer, basketball, softball, and I like to watch football.  Some of my favorite foods are pizza, seafood, Chicken Alfredo, asparagus, and homemade chili. 
   I really enjoyed making this site and hope you got the information you were looking for.

    Hi, I'm Brianna, an 11 year old student in the 5th grade.  Some of my hobbies include reading, watching TV, playing soccer, and horses.  My favorite foods are pizza and spaghetti.  My favorite color is blue.  I like math!  I won a perfect attendance award in 4th grade. 
    I liked doing research on hibernation and I hope you like the web site. 

   I'm Kenny.  I like lobster!  I like tennis, baseball, and basketball.  I've gone to the U.S. Open every year since 1997.  I liked the '99 U.S. Open the best because most of the players I liked were there.
    I enjoyed making our web site and I hope you like it just as much as I do.

    Hi, My name is Jennifer Tea.  My favorite color is purple and I even like grape candy.  Tootsie Rolls are pretty good, too.  I have a dog named Togie or Tiger.  I like gymnastics and soccer. 
    Don't you hate chalkboard scratching sounds?  I do, too.  My least favorite food is leftovers.  I don't like spiders!  
    FYI [for your information], some of my friends are Jenny, Penny,  Kenny, and Brianna, the other kids on the web team.

 

Questions?

Meeting the Challenge..... without going crazy
Email us     ThinkQuest is a neat contest to enter.  Our coach has had teams enter before so we knew some of the things that ThinkQuest might be looking for in a good site.  Our goal was to make a terrific site that would help kids doing school reports.   We followed this plan:
Brainstorming ideas for sites.  We wanted to do the Dewey Decimal System and found out that a really good site about that was already in the ThinkQuest library.  Then we brainstormed again and decided hibernation would be interesting.  We found out that there weren't any sites just for kids on this. 
Designed the look of the site.  We used FrontPage and it had themes.  This is what makes our pages look alike.  We decided how the pages would be set up with tables and what kind of lines and bullets we wanted to use.
Looked up subject in an encyclopedia.  This told us different animals that hibernate for a place to start.
Team members were assigned topics.  We were able to divide all the animals so that no one was doing 'all' the work.  This had to be fixed a few times because we found out that some of our animals were the same ones and we didn't want to do the same work twice. 
Looked up information on the Internet and in books.  This is when we found out that hibernation information wouldn't be in once place, but hundreds of places.  It made us happier than ever that we chose this kind of site because it would really help school kids with hibernation.  It took a lot of time to get it all together, though.  We found more animals while we were looking up others.  We thought it would never get done.
Getting permission for and making graphics.  We checked all over the Internet for pictures of the animals that hibernate.  Our coach said book copyright laws would make it hard to get permission to use pictures from books.  We emailed tons of people that didn't bother to answer, and some who not only gave us permission, but told us stuff about the animals, too.  We decided on the main bear graphic and found out that the owner lived in Japan and we couldn't read the site with its Japanese characters so that we could email him.  Our coach had a good idea and we finally reached him by going through his Internet service provider.  It took a long time but it was worth it.  Then we took that graphic and one of our team members used another program [Swish] to make the sleepy zzzzzs.  We love the graphic! 
Reports written and typed. It was neat to be able to copy and paste the reports into the website.
Reports were edited.  We found this really boring, but we did find mistakes.  Two people edited each page.
Internet links were found.  The coach thought we should have places for kids to go if they needed more information.  We thought they should have places to go to have some fun.  We compromised.
Proofreading the site.  Our coach put the site up on a big screen so that we could see it up close and LARGE.  We picked it apart and wrote down stuff that was not looking so good or we had forgotten [even though we edited].  We couldn't believe we were STILL finding mistakes.
Uploading. We were lucky because our coach had done this before with WS-FTP.  She said it can get tricky.  She said that when she was just learning, she uploaded a site to ThinkQuest, made a mistake, and wiped out all of the graphics on the site.  The team had to go out and find them all over again.  This was scary. 
Re-editing.  We found things that didn't look quite the same when it was really working on the Internet.  Some of our parents offered to read through the site for errors.  That helps, too.
Shut down.  This is a the last step.  When ThinkQuest closes the site, you can't go in and fix anything that's wrong.  Scary.  It's ready to be judged.


    It was fun to work on this site, but there were problems while we made it.  We picked a good meeting day for the whole team.  Then Drama Club began and half of the team wanted to join that.  We all still wanted to work on the site, though.    The team changed then and became a roving team.  Two members came after school once a week for Club Web.  The other three members came during study hall, whenever they were needed to write or edit articles or help on the site in other ways.
    Even though we worked really hard and found out that websites are not so easy to make, we had a good time doing it.  We liked having a "Win-Or-Lose-Junk Party", too.    Ours was GREAT!