The ThinkQuest competition, now entering its 13th year, is an example of project learning at its best. Student teams create educational content to be used by teachers and students around the world; their work is published in the popular ThinkQuest Library, visited by 30 million learners each year. The competition is utilized by teachers to engage their students in developing critical skills for life and work in the 21st century. Over the course of completing their team project, students learn important skills including teamwork, critical thinking, problem-solving, self-direction, and utilization of technology.

"When students enter the ThinkQuest competition, they engage in a high-end learning project," said Clare Dolan, Vice President, Oracle Education Initiatives. "ThinkQuest participants are asked to create a rich educational resource from scratch. Throughout this challenging process, they learn via their personal experience and through their team interactions. It is truly inspiring to see what the students accomplish. The educational Web sites that they produce are absolutely first-rate. Equally impressive, however, is that throughout the competition, they are honing skills that are key to success in the 21st century workplace.

This year's contest received more than 500 entries from teams comprised of three to six students who worked under the supervision of a teacher-coach. Each team had approximately eight months to complete their final Web sites. The submissions were then reviewed by an international panel of volunteer judges who selected the 30 winning teams in each of the three age divisions. The judges also awarded the "Global Perspectives" prize to the team best exemplifying respect for diversity and recognition of global interdependence.

"It was heartening to be working side by side with judges from other continents reviewing and discussing projects submitted by this year's dedicated ThinkQuest teams," said Bonnie Marks, ThinkQuest Judge and Executive Director of the Alameda County Office of Education. "While it was extremely challenging to select the best out of so many excellent sites, it was delightful to find myself learning from the students' work as I judged."

The first, second and third place winning teams will travel to the ThinkQuest Live celebration held in San Francisco, California in November 2007. In addition, each student and teacher participant of the thirty winning teams will receive a computer laptop, while their sponsoring school will receive a prize of $1,000.

The award winning Web sites can be viewed at http://www.thinkquest.org/winners

About ThinkQuest
ThinkQuest is the most well -known project-learning competition in the world today. It challenges students to create educational websites that are published in the ThinkQuest Library, a learning resource visited by 30 million web learners each year. For more information, visit http://www.thinkquest.org

About the Oracle Education Foundation
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. For more information, visit http://www.oraclefoundation.org

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ThinkQuest International 2007 Winners Fact Sheet

1st Place
19 and Under
Web site Title: Young Blood: Children of War
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01032/
Coach: John Harrison
Asst Coach: Beth Camper
Students: David, Krista, Parth, Thomas
Location: United States

15 and Under
Web site Title: Sustainability
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01346/
Coach: Christina Lee
Asst Coach: Mary Winchell
Students: Ben, David, Joel, Nick, Richard, Taylor
Locations: United States

12 and Under
Web site Title: Living on the Brink
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/2242/
Coach: Salwa Kefi
Asst Coach: Heeral Desai
Students: Dylan, Shruthi, Courtney, Simran, George, Facundo
Locations: Tunisia, India, Unites States, Australia, Argentina

1st Place Prize: Laptop computer with approximate retail value of $1,500 USD, trip to ThinkQuest Live and $1000 USD School Award.*

2nd Place

19 and Under
Web site Title: The Credibles
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/00446/
Coach: Amit Das
Asst Coach: Devayan Mallick
Students: Arif, Dhruv, Gita, Pranav, Sparsh, Vimal
Locations: Singapore, United States, Indonesia, India

15 and Under
Web site Title: Internet Safety
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01158/
Coach: Karen Fredette
Students: Andrew, Annastasia, Brendon, Kayla, Michelle, Rafael
Location: United States

12 and Under
Web site Title: Earth Buddies
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/00442/
Coach: Jeanne Paulus
Asst Coach: Amit Das
Students: Alonzo, Arun, Jacob, Jonah, Meredith, Rosie
Locations: United States, Singapore

2nd Place Prize: Laptop computer with approximate retail value of $1,250 USD, trip to ThinkQuest Live and $1000 USD School Award.

3rd Place

19 and Under
Web site Title: TQToolkit: A web building guide for ThinkQuesters
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/02048/
Coach: Keng Hian Chia
Asst Coach: Soong Chee Gi
Students: Darryl, Jim, Jun Ru, Qing Sheng
Location: Singapore

15 and Under
Web site Title: Energy Generation: Taking a step into the future
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01885/
Coach: Hortense Morales
Students: Alex, Alex, Ben, Come, Josselin, Matthias
Locations: United States

12 and Under
Web site Title: Global Tales
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01340/
Coach: Kelly Rayon
Asst Coach: Peter Miller
Students: Ella, Jameka, Mohammed, Nikhil, Yusuke
Locations: United Kingdom, Australia

Prize: Laptop computer with approximate retail value of $1,000 USD, trip to ThinkQuest Live and $1000 USD School Award.*

Global Perspectives Award

Web site Title: "Living on the Brink"
multi-award winner, details above
Prize: Digital camera with approximate retail value of $750 USD

TRIO Special Recognition Award

Web site Title: The Real Enslavement
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01071/
Coach: Evelyn Poe
Asst Coach: Mjumbe Poe
Students: Erikka, Estrellita, Ilona, Justin, Watufani
Location: United States

Prize: Trip to ThinkQuest Live

Honorable Mention - 12 and Under
Web site Title: Healthy Kids; for kids, by kids
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01223/
Coach: Andrew Ford
Asst Coach: Jason Cartlidge
Students: Aaron, Cicely, Holly, Jessica, Luke, Mark
Locations: United Kingdom

Web site Title: Jammin' 'bout Diabetes
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/00281/
Coach: Julia Osteen
Students: Heather, Liz, Paige, Shirali, Zanir
Locations: United States

Web site Title: Organic Farming
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01220/
Coach: Betsy Gentile
Asst Coach: Annie Rahman
Students: Anne, Nadia, Vaughan, Will
Locations: United States

Web site Title: The Case of the Mysterious Macros
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/00051/
Coach: Annette Harris
Asst Coach: Eva Kristofik
Students: Allie, Breanne, Daniel, Jaylon, Marek, Sarah
Locations: Unites States, Slovakia

Web site Title: Marine Debris
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01036/
Coach: Gail Van De Verg
Asst Coach: Jennie Yee
Students: Aaron, Daniel, Kristi, Lauren, Sailor, Shaianne
Locations: United States

Web site Title: Teens Tangled in Violence
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/00344/
Coach: Linda Southworth
Students: Cody, Hannah, Kathy, Morgan, Nicky, Nicole
Locations: United States

Web site Title: We're Not Clowning Around
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/02341/
Coach: Suzanne Tomlin
Students: Brooks, Haley, Lauren, Logan
Locations: United States

Honorable Mention Prize: Laptop computer with approximate retail value of $750 USD and $1000 USD School Award.*

Honorable Mention - 15 and Under

Web site Title: Solarpedia: The solar atlas
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01038/
Coach: Mahumita RoyChowdhury
Students: Aditya, Adrien, Divakar, Monica, Neil, Samir
Locations: India
Web site Title: I Can Do That! Coping successfully with amputations.
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/00021/
Coach: Linda Brandon
Students: Megan, Michele, Sam
Locations: United States

Web site Title: A Hazy Situation
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/02304/
Coach: Sharon Xu
Asst Coach: Aileen Chor
Students: Clement, Ji Heng, Samuel, Weihao
Location: Singapore

Web site Title: Hallowed Ground Preservation
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01591/
Coach: Richard Hartmetz
Asst Coach: Chet Engert
Students: Cameron, Hannah, Robert, Sheila, Taylor
Location: United States

Web site Title: Let's End Technology Waste
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/02218/
Coach: Hulya Cambaz
Asst Coach: Meta Kirn
Students: Ana, Göksenin, Katarina, Sena, Tamara, Yoni
Locations: Turkey, Slovenia

Web site Title: Punjab Culture
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/02374/
Coach: Rashid Butt
Students: Fayza, Karim, Kehaan
Locations: Pakistan, United States

Web site Title: Environmental Issues International
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/02232/
Coach: Maxwell Mdini
Asst Coach: Richard Knaggs
Students: Alexander, Atanas, Brett, Itumaleng, Matthew, Mitchell
Location: South Africa

Prize: Laptop computer with approximate retail value of $750 USD and $1000 USD School Award.*

Honorable Mention - 19 and Under

Web site Title: A Matter of Time
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01010/
Coach: James Poirier
Asst Coach: Gerakina Photakis
Students: Barbara, Christine, David, Haralambos, Kishore, Ruohan
Locations: United States, Australia, China, India

Web site Title: Disease Detective
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01865/
Coach: Gregory Wilkin
Asst Coach: Ngoc Tran
Students: Alexander, Andrew, Christopher, Long, Parintorn, William
Locations: Australia, United States, Thailand, Vietnam

Web site Title: The Wheelchair Bound
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/02114/
Coach: Chor Aileen
Asst Coach: Sigit Adinugroho
Students: Chi, Enlin, Hui, Isaac, Jonathan
Locations: Singapore, Indonesia

Web site Title: The DCI Debate
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/02220/
Coach: Ser-Yee Kuang
Students: Jared, Kah Hou, Shu De, Shu Li, Wei Zhong
Location: Singapore

Web site Title: Mind Prison, Internet Addiction Disorder
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/02049/
Coach: Keng Hian Chia
Asst Coach: Soong Chee Gi
Students: Bo, Jian Hao, Kwang Wei, Shu Peng, Tat Leong, Yan
Location: Singapore

Web site Title: The Real Enslavement
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01071/
multi-award winner, see details above

Web site Title: The Holocaust
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/02467/
Coach: Emanuela Cerchez
Students: Alexandra, Alexandru, Cristina, Raluca
Location: Romania

Honorable Mention Prize: Laptop computer with approximate retail value of $750 USD and $1000 USD School Award.*

* School Award: For all teams that received 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place, or Honorable Mention awards, the Eligible School at which that team's Primary Coach is employed will receive a School Award in the amount of $1000 USD.