These can be sent as e-mail attachments. Return to top How the competition works In the competition, a story about an environmental problem is told on the web pages in three or more instalments over about 6 weeks. Clues are progressively revealed in each instalment of the story so that students are able to solve the mystery. Participating schools enter one team of from 2 to 30 students in the competition. Each school e-mails one or more responses each fortnight and these are posted to the web pages for all the other schools to see.
Schools can discuss each others ideas on the web pages and so collaborate to solve the mystery.
The first school to solve the mystery is the winner. The competitions allow for participation at various levels. Schools just starting with online projects will find that they can quickly and easily become involved by just sending in several e-mail responses. There is also scope for classes to use the competitions as a focus for more extensive research on human impact on the environment with their findings and ideas being published on the web. There is also the possibility for schools in different countries to engage in e-mail exchanges.