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10 Apr 2001

Six Singapore Students win awards at
ThinkQuest Internet Challenge 2000

              Six Singapore students won awards in the recently concluded ThinkQuest Internet Challenge 2000 held in Geneva, Switzerland. The six students won two Silver, two Gold and one Platinum. This is also the first time a Singapore student has won the Best of Contest Award which is given to the overall best team.

2          ThinkQuest Internet Challenge is an annual international web-based competition for students aged 12 to 19. This year, there were a total of 24 entries in the finals from 19 countries, categorised into five different content categories: Arts and Literature, Interdisciplinary, Mathematics and Science, Social Science, and Sports and Health. A total of 264 secondary and junior college students from Singapore participated in the competition and six of them emerged as finalists. Singapore has thel argest number of finalists after the United States. Please refer to Annexfor the number of finalists from different countries.

3       The six award-winning Singapore students, the composition of their teams and awards won are as follows:

         Galvin Sng, Hwa Chong Junior College
           Entry Title: Sighting the First Sense - Seeing is Believing
         Category: Sports & Health
         Award: Best of Contest
         Award Details: US$25,000 in scholarship, US$5,000 for the coach &
         US$2,000 for the school
         Web address:  http://library.thinkquest.org/C001464 
         Team members: Brad Galiette & Morris Chen, USA

         Zhuang Shengquan, The Chinese High School
         Entry Title: Van Gogh at Etten - Sketches and Billboards
         Category: Arts & Literature
         Award: Platinum
         Award Details: US$15,000 in scholarship, US$3,000 for the coach &
         US$1,000 for the school
         Web address:  http:// library.thinkquest.org/C001734
         Team members: Hans Westerbeek, Netherlands & Abiola Osonowo,Nigeria      

         Watson Teo, The Chinese High School
         Entry Title: The Art of Speech
         Category: Arts & Literature
         Award: Gold
         Award Details: US$10,000 in scholarship, US$2,000 for coach &
         US$1,000 for the school
         Web address:  http:// library.thinkquest.org/C001146
         Team members: Steve Kessler & Eric Schneider, USA

         Nah Yong En, The Chinese High School
         Entry Title: The Energy Planet
         Category: Social Science
         Award: Gold
         Award Details: US$10,000 in scholarship, US$2,000 for the coach &
         US$1,000 for the school
         Web address: http:// library.thinkquest.org/C004471
         Team members: Sytse Faber, Netherlands & Joel Reiner, USA

         James Huang, Raffles Junior College
         Entry Title: World Mail
         Category: Social Science
         Award: Silver Award
         Details: US$5,000 in scholarship, US$1,000 for the coach &
         US$1,000 for the school
         Web address:  http:// library.thinkquest.org/C005702 
         Team members: Richard Billington, Australia & Kevin Dart, USA

         Agnes Lim, Cedar Girls' Secondary School
         Entry Title: Products of our Environment
         Category: Social Science
         Award: Silver Award
         Details: US$5,000 in scholarship, US$1,000 for the coach &
         US$1,000 for the school
         Web address:  http:// library.thinkquest.org/C007405 
         Team members: Leonard Zgrablic, Canada

4      Launched in the United States in 1995, ThinkQuest Internet Challenge has since attracted 50,000 young web designers from 100 countries who have together contributed over 3,000 educational websites ranging from Shakespeare to space exploration to holistic health practices. These websites can be found in the ThinkQuest Library at  www.thinkquest.org/.

5. The competition brings together teenagers of different backgrounds, continents and cultures to create educational websites. Team members communicate and collaborate via email and chat sessions. They assign themselves tasks ranging from research to graphic and web design and work with an adult coach to bring their website from conception to culmination. The website creations of the finalists are posted and accessible at  http://www.thinkquest.org/tqic/finalists_2k.html

Annex

Table : No of finalists.