ThinkQuest's technology focus evolves around actively engaging students, teachers, and parents in the learning process. Through these student-designed Web sites, the partnership will encourage more students and teachers to make significant contributions to our current and future learning resources. The ThinkQuest program provides an exciting new approach to learning and teaching for students and educators as they discover how to use the Internet and design Web sites. A truly global program, it redefines community by encouraging students and teachers to work together in teams across geographic boundaries and diverse backgrounds. Started five years ago, more than 50,000 students and teachers from around the world have submitted nearly 3,500 interactive Web sites on topics as diverse as Mars's exploration, the physics of baseball, and the plays of William Shakespeare.
Entries are now online.
ITEC's principal role will be to encourage students and teachers to participate in the ThinkQuest programs, an experience that will help prepare them for the future. Students and educators enhance their academic and team-building skills while simultaneously learning how to design Web sites. ThinkQuest leadership is intent on enlisting State Partners to increase the benefits of ThinkQuest programs to participants in the United States.