This web showcases exceptional original student artwork, stories, and opinion pieces. For example, it includes a student photo essay on India, a history of Eastchester researched, written and illustrated by seventh and eighth graders, and tribute to the Challenger Crew, written by eighth grade students. It also contains a virtual reality tour of the school, links to the home pages of current and former EMS students, and links to Web resources of interest to middle schoolers. Students actively worked with Rick Donahue, the computer technology teacher, to assembly content and convert it into effective and very functional hypertext documents. The design is very clean.
Scripts are well-written.
Navigation between pages and sections is exceptionally facile. Parents can take comfort in the fact that each site listed here is carefully selected by the school for appropriateness of content. Just For Middle School Kids and related sections of this site could make for an interesting starting point especially if you are not quite sure what it is you are looking for. Skokie, Illinois School District 68 named our web site the Outstanding Teen Resource Site of the Week for February 20-26, 2000. This award is given to sites that contain information that is appropriate and valuable for junior high school students, with a focus on health related sites.