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Over the last 5 years the Awards programme has generated
considerable media attention. By profiling the Awards programme,
and the individual winning projects, Childnet hopes to
encourage "best practice" and draw attention
to the individual winning projects.
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Mercury, By Tim Martain, 26 February 2004
GIRLS GOING FAR AS THEIR WEB PAGE CLICKS
Four girls from Ogilvie High School will be flying off
to London in April after winning a spot at an international
web development academy.
Charity organisation Childnet International is holding
its inaugural Cable and Wireless Childnet Academy in London
over Easter.
A web design competition was held to select 12 groups
of young people to attend the academy, attracting 250 entries
from 40 different countries.
The grade 10 Ogilvie team of Anita Lim, Anneke van der
Vusse, Ayda Issa and Courtney Jones was one of two teams
to be selected in the schools category of the competition.
Their web page, "Women's Winning Ways of Leadership",
focused on the important ways women have played leadership
roles in society.
It includes discussion forums, polls and biographies of
famous female leaders.
Originally designed for an English assignment in October
2002, the page attracted the attention of Childnet International
while it was searching for entrants for the academy and
the girls were invited to enter.
"We got this e-mail asking if we would enter this
competition to win so many thousand pounds," said Courtney,
15, of Derwent Park.
"We thought it was a joke but we entered anyway."
The judges liked the girls' effort and awarded them a
place at the year's academy.
"When we started the website we didn't have much
experience," said Anita, 14, of Sandy Bay.
"We worked on it over the holidays with the help
of my dad and we just experimented."
Anneke, 15, of South Hobart, drew the caricatures on the
website and said they decided to focus on women because
they were relevant role models for students at an all-girls
school.
The website is now being used as a study resource by schools
in South Africa and the US.
Teacher Roslyn Teirney, who supervised the girls, said
their efforts proved that Tasmania's education system was
achieving world-class success.
At the academy the girls will study, among other things,
Internet safety, web accessibility, writing for the web
and sustaining the project.
You can view the website at www.geocities.com/leaders4tomorrow.
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