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International Project for Grade School
The South Avenue Magnet School in New York's Beacon City School District is collaborating with The Concord Consortium on a year-long international project for fourth graders. Students from the United States are linked through the Web with two other international sites to build a miniature Global Neighborhood using their combined local designs. Students are studying local ponds and streams, building simple and complex machines, and investigating energy use in their local neighborhoods. Blueprints of designed neighborhoods, cultural characteristics of sites, and any data collected in the studies will be shared over the Web to provide a better understanding of the needs of the shared "virtual neighborhood."

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Reading the Rocks
Reading the Rocks is an interactive Web site produced by The Concord Consortium for the American Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Designed to support the Museum's new geological collection soon to be on display in the Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth, the web project is being developed for middle school teachers and students. Nationwide viewers, many of whom may never have the opportunity to visit the exhibit, will be able to use an interactive database; explore the AMNH collection of rocks; work in virtual laboratories that mirror professional labs; and participate in a number of online educational activities.

http://www.amnh.org

Computerworld Smithsonian Medal Award
On Monday, April 12, almost 400 of the industry's leading innovators, from as far away as Argentina and Hong Kong, gathered on the mall in Washington, D.C., to see their work accepted into the Smithsonian Permanent Research Collection of Information Technology. The Concord Consortium, nominated by Lotus Development Corporation in the education and academia category, received a medal for its creation of the Virtual High School.

Smithsonian Award "The primary source material submitted by Concord Consortium will enrich the National Museum of American History's growing collection on the history of information technology," said Spencer R. Crew, director of the National Museum of American History.

The permanent collection, established in 1989, is the world's premier historical record of computing applications and innovations. Information on the Virtual High School is housed at the museum with applications of technology from 42 states and 22 countries.

"The Laureates in this year's collection are utilizing new information age tools to extend the benefits of technology to society," said Dan Morrow, executive director of the Awards Program.

http://www.thunderstone.com/texis/si/sc/innovate/
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