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Chris: Teacher
Chris is a Primary School teacher who has worked with young multi-cultural children. His personal interests include the environment, children’s welfare and encouraging children to communicate across the globe. Chris strongly believes what a website says and the role it fulfils is more important than what it looks like. Brookvale School was a Childnet Award winner in 2002.

Jo: Teacher
Jo is a teacher at Ararat Community College in Victoria, Australia. (English, Social Studies and Information Technology). Jo has initiated and coordintated many large scale theme based collaborative projects with schools from many countries. She has used all associated ICT tools including ISDN video conferencing between countries. As a long term member of I*EARN all projects seek to empower students to make a difference to issues of global significance. Jo's awards for her work in this area include: 2003 National Teaching Award -Values Education Category; 2002 BHP Biliton Science Teacher Awards - Prime Minister's Award Finalist; 2001 Winner Stockholm Challenge - Environment Category; 1999 ISTE SigTel International Award; 1999 Victorian Technology Teacher of the Year and 1999 Cable and Wireless Children's Network - Special innovation award.

Spiros
Spiros is 17 years old and lives in Athens, Greece. Spiros is extremely interested in the role young people can play in the world. Participation in decision-making procedures, global awareness on crucial problems, and the role of media and Internet in our society are of great interest to him. Spiros has won a number of awards for his work and was a commended winner for his project “Youth Concern" at 2002 Cable & Wireless Childnet Awards.

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