Oracle's ThinkQuest International Competition 2008 for world students and teachers
Sunday, 23 September 2007
FE report
The Oracle Education Foundation (OEF) has announced opening of ThinkQuest International 2008, inviting students and teachers from around the globe to take part in one of the most well-known project learning competitions in the world.
ThinkQuest is open to students between the ages of 9 and 19 and their teacher-coaches worldwide. Students are encouraged to team with peers in other regions to develop websites on educational topics. As they create their sites, the participants develop important 21st century skills such as teamwork, critical thinking, self-direction, problem solving, and technology skills. Additionally, the students become published web-authors in the popular ThinkQuest Library, sharing their work with 30 million web learners each year.
Professional educators will judge all submitted websites for ThinkQuest International 2008. Entries are due on April 2, 2008, allowing teams up to eight months to build their websites. Qualifying entries will be published in the ThinkQuest Library.
Winners will receive prizes from the Oracle Education Foundation, including laptops and $1,000 USD school grants for the top five teams in each age division, travel to the annual ThinkQuest Live event for the top three teams in each division, and digital cameras for the team that receives the Global Perspectives Award.
The Oracle Education Foundation sponsors ThinkQuest and Think.com, free online programs for the primary and secondary education community. It also makes grants to select schools and nonprofits to promote global online collaborative learning.
Students and educators interested in participating can find out more details at: http://www.thinkquest.org.
The Oracle Education Foundation (OEF) has announced opening of ThinkQuest International 2008, inviting students and teachers from around the globe to take part in one of the most well-known project learning competitions in the world.
ThinkQuest is open to students between the ages of 9 and 19 and their teacher-coaches worldwide. Students are encouraged to team with peers in other regions to develop websites on educational topics. As they create their sites, the participants develop important 21st century skills such as teamwork, critical thinking, self-direction, problem solving, and technology skills. Additionally, the students become published web-authors in the popular ThinkQuest Library, sharing their work with 30 million web learners each year.
Professional educators will judge all submitted websites for ThinkQuest International 2008. Entries are due on April 2, 2008, allowing teams up to eight months to build their websites. Qualifying entries will be published in the ThinkQuest Library.
Winners will receive prizes from the Oracle Education Foundation, including laptops and $1,000 USD school grants for the top five teams in each age division, travel to the annual ThinkQuest Live event for the top three teams in each division, and digital cameras for the team that receives the Global Perspectives Award.
The Oracle Education Foundation sponsors ThinkQuest and Think.com, free online programs for the primary and secondary education community. It also makes grants to select schools and nonprofits to promote global online collaborative learning.
Students and educators interested in participating can find out more details at: http://www.thinkquest.org.