Computers in Education Group of South Australia

Winners of ThinkQuest Australia competition will be announced on November 25th!

Check out the ThinkQuest Library for over 7000 websites created by students around the world who have participated in a ThinkQuest competition.

ThinkQuest Australia ended on October 14th 2009

The Australian Council for Computers in Education Inc. is pleased to invite Australian schools to register teams for ThinkQuest Australia, a creative activity designed to promote student abilities in information skills, creative design, project management and teamwork. ThinkQuest Australia is a local version of the highly acclaimed ThinkQuest International competition with a timing schedule suited to the Australian school year. The competition has three age divisions; 12 and under, 15 and under, 19 and under.

TQ Australia ended on October 14th

ThinkQuest is a prime example of how students can incorporate many skills that are integrated through project learning.

Some of these skills are:

Critical Thinking

Creativity

Team work

Cross-Cultural understanding

Communication

Technology

Communication

*** Sounds like something you want to try?***

Check out:thinkquest.org

Check out the following winners with Australian coaches and students:

Wanted: Languages Dead or Alive!

AI - Manufactured Minds

Stewards of the earth

Compete
Students, ages 9-19, form a team and recruit a teacher to act as coach. Once the coach enrolls the team, students work together to create an innovative website on any topic within a broad range of educational categories. Diverse teams and globally relevant themes are encouraged.

Awards & Prizes
The top 5 teams in each age division receive laptop computers and a cash award for the coach's school. In addition, the top 3 teams in each age division travel to ThinkQuest Live, an educational extravaganza celebrating their achievements. A special award is also presented to the team best demonstrating global perspectives.

Comments:

I have also been involved with ThinkQuest since 2004 and I started off by being an online judge. It was a fantastic experience because you got to evaluate websites using a very well designed assessment rubric.You also got to see the standard of websites entered.

There will be more on personal ThinkQuest experiences, soon.

Tina Photakis

I did some judging for ThinkQuest some years ago. An impressive competition with very impressive organisation.

John Travers