(A special THANK YOU to Thinkquest
and TQ founder Allan Weis for flying the Yo, It's Time for Braces
team to the GII Awards in San Francisco where they were finalists (health
category) and presenters.
Click
here to see photos of our trip and the awards.
Astre 5 1999-2000
...Thinkquest Junior 2000 entries:
From
Pokemon to Picasso: The Rights and Wrongs of Copyrights
Growing
Up With Epilepsy
Authentic
Dancing
Loraine's
edition of News of the Century: 1988
Katie
Sullivan's Home Page
(including
her digital Ezra Jack Keats children's book entries for 1999 and 2000)
SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND PARTNERSHIPS
The
Joyce Theater and Ballet Hispanico Dance in Education Program
The
Joyce Theater Dance in Education and dance artist Susan Thomasson
Carnegie
Hall's LinkUP! Program
with
jazz vocalist Lenora Zenzalai Helm
ARCHIVE OF LAST YEAR'S HIGHLIGHTS
Our
1999 entries in the Thinkquest
Junior competition were:
Yo, It's Time for Braces (PLATINUM AWARD winner, Sports & Health category)
Awarded Pacific Bell's BLUE WEB'N Award
Sports
Are Taking Over The U.S.A. (Finalists,
Sports & Health Category)
Natural
Killers
The
U.S.A. - Land of Stars and Stripes
Photo
of Madeline, Val and Svetlana at the 1999 NECC conference at Atlantic City
Congratulations Astre 5, winner in the Community School District 27 Computer Contest. The winning entry was a western hemisphere travelogue using Hyperstudio.
Visit
Astre 5's 1998-1999 Website
Visit
our 1999 "simple machines" science page
EJ
revisits his favorite dining spot
Visit our Monster Gallery, part of the MindsEye Monster Exchange Project.
Some cool sites to check out! (We're still adding to our list.)
Click on Mars Team Online to visit the NASA site on Mars
1999 Pioneering Partner Foundation Summit photo gallery
1999
Exploring Space: The Capital Connection with UAH in Washington, D.C.
(coming soon)
Visit
District 27's Media Center for some special activities!
(Astre 5 met PS 183 on the TV
show, "Books On Parade")
Books On Parade taping at JHS
202 TV studio