ALL PARTICIPANTS FROM BOTH COMPETITIONS ARE INVITED TO THE EVENT & INVITED TO EXHIBIT THEIR WORK TO THE PRESTIGIOUS GUESTS WHO WILL BE ATTENDING. Also, all participants will receive a Best Buy gift bag (they were a HUGE hit last year) and will be honored during the ceremony. Also, the band JUST KAIT will be signing autographs after their performance! Let’s celebrate all of the work that you’ve accomplished!

CLICK HERE TO RSVP YOUR TEAMS & RESERVE COMPUTERS FOR EXHIBITION.

PLEASE RSVP BY MONDAY, JUNE 8th @ NOON

Family members must also RSVP, please share this link with them:
http://www.tqnyc.org/eventregistration/familyregistration.php
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AWARDS EVENT INFO

EXHIBITION 3pm - 4:30pm
CEREMONY 5pm

Please RSVP by Monday, June 8th by Noon

LOCATION:
BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center
199 Chambers Street
New York, NY 10007
tribecapac.org

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FINALISTS

INTERNET CHALLENGE:
Argh!
Bridge to Adulthood
Communications Unplugged
Cool Communications
DNA: Crack the Code
Do You Drink Bottled Water?
Eco-friends presents the Eco-Rangers: Allies of the Earth
First Period: Economics
Green Electricity
Juvenile Diabetes Sugar Energizer or Enemy
Magically Magnificent Monarchs
New York Cares Kids Help Out
NYC Bridges
Opening the World to the Visually Impaired
Polar Bears-On Thin Ice
The Amazing Story of Crush (An Endangered Loggerhead Sea Turtle)
The Dark Side of the Internet
The Era of Silence
Vista Dummy
When Life Gives You Lemons Make Lemonade
Who NOSE the Common Cold?

DIGITAL MEDIA:
A Hope for the Future: A World Without Religious Boundaries
A World Without Terrorism
Don’t Touch It, Don’t Use It, Don’t Smoke It - The Effects of Smoking
I’m Down
Make Me Feel Good
MS: Multiple Sclerosis
Save the Dolphins” - The Dangers of Ocean Pollution
The Life of Crush
The Other Side of Bullying
The Rich History of Forest Park
Visions: Women In Leadership

TQNYC 2009 SEMI-FINALISTS

Congratulations to ALL of our participants this year. Below is the list of Semi-Finalists. Finalists will be announced at the end of this week.

We invite ALL participants to join us at the Awards Event on Tuesday, June 9th at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center @ BMCC. Students can sign up to exhibit their work. Finalists will be announced and receive prizes.

Coaches can RSVP for their teams here: TEAM REGISTRATION
Family members can RSVP here: FAMILY REGISTRATION

PLEASE RSVP BY FRIDAY, JUNE 5th

ThinkQuest New York City wishes to congratulate the following Digital Media and Internet Challenge teams for completing exceptional projects and becoming our 2009 Semi-Finalists.

INTERNET CHALLENGE:
A Horse is a Horse
Argh!
Beatle Mania
Bon Math Appetit
Bridge to Adulthood
Climate Chaos
Communications Unplugged
Communism: Paper, Politics and People
Vista Dummy
Cool Communications
DNA: Crack the Code
Do You Drink Bottled Water?
Eco-friends presents the Eco-Rangers: Allies of the Earth
Egypt 1.0.1
First Period: Economics
Green Electricity
Juvenile Diabetes Sugar Energizer or Enemy
Loggerhead Turtles
Magically Magnificent Monarchs
Medieval Times
Mythology
New York Cares: Kids Help Out
NYC Bridges
Opening the World to the Visually Impaired
Our Big Apple
Our Fashionable World
Polar Bears-On Thin Ice
Technology Grows from the Ashes of War
The Dangers of Artificial Sweeteners
The Dark Side of the Internet
The Era of Silence
When Life Gives You Lemons Make Lemonade
Who NOSE the Common Cold?

DIGITAL MEDIA:
Alex’s Lemonade Stand
Being Healthy Matters- Get Healthy
The Rich History of Forest Park
Make Me Feel Good
In Session
The Other Side Of Bullying
The Life of Crush
Don’t Touch It, Don’t Use It, Don’t Smoke It - The Effects of Smoking
Ecofriends
I’m Down
Visions:Women in Leadership Roles
Is Racism Still An Issue
MS; Multiple Sclerosis
Recycle: or else!
Save the Dolphins - The Dangers of Ocean Pollution
SILS Stay Healthy
The Ark
The Question of Hunger
World Wide Aids

These are the dates for submitting TQNYC Internet Challenge entries and announcing finalists.

A Complete Site = All files uploaded and tested, and the Site Profile completed. You must be logged into your coach account to finish the Site Profile. Review the checklist. A tutorial featuring our recommendations on uploading can be found here.

May 5th- Extra Credit Deadline
Get ‘extra credit’ by finishing early. This will allow time for any problems to be fixed and to avoid ‘unavoidable’ problems like servers being down, blackouts and natural disasters.

May 8th- 12pm (noon)- FINAL Deadline
After noon on the 8th, you will not be able to fix your site or upload any files. Oracle will close the server and there will be NO way to make ANY changes. AT ALL. PERIOD. That’s NOON on Friday, May 8th. There is NOTHING that can be fixed after that point. Got it?

(Now you understand why we made the “Extra Credit Deadline”!)

First week of June (Date TBD)- Finalists Notified
You will receive an email will the good news. This means that you and your team will receive an award on June 9th.

June 9th- Awards Event
All participants are invited to demonstrate their projects from 3-4:30. Then from 5-6:30 prizes will be given to Finalist teams.

June 19th- Winners Announced on Oracle’s Website
Winners with links to their sites will be posted on Oracle’s site and included in their international library.

June 30th (or sooner)- All Entries Posted on TQNYC.org
We think that ALL student work should be displayed and celebrated. We will be hosting your projects on TQNYC.org for you to share with the world!

NBC Universal Digital Media Competition Submission Checklist
Submission Deadline is April 23rd!!!

There are two parts to submitting videos to the DMC. First, is uploading to Vimeo and emailing us the URL. Second is sending us all of the information listed below by post.

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STEP ONE:

Upload video to Vimeo.com by 5pm Thursday, April 23, 2009

Email the URL to: digitalmedia@tqnyc.org

Include the following text in the body of the email:

Team Name:
Coach:
Principal:
Principal’s Email:
School:
Description of video:

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STEP TWO:

Mail the following items to TQNYC:

1. Complete consent forms for each team member AND any actor/actress that appeared in the film.
You can download consent forms here.

2. List of permissions for any copy-written work including music, images and video.

3. A disk with your video on it.
(We will not be judging from this disk, it is for archiving purposes.)

4. Team Name:
Coach:
Principal:
Principal’s Email:
School:
Description of video:

Mail to:
ThinkQuest New York City
Digital Media Competition
318 West 39th Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10018

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IF YOU THINK YOU’RE GOING TO BE A FINALIST…

Start working on a 20 second clip of your video that we can play at the Awards Event on June 9th. We will contact Finalists with instructions for delivering the clip.

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PROJECT DEADLINE IS THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2009

Best of Luck & See You June 9th at the Awards Event!

The TQNYC Internet Challenge Registration deadline is May 1st. The Contest Deadline is May 5th (details to come). Come to the Bronx today to have questions answered, chat with Mickie and meet other coaches.

Monday, April 6
3:30-5:30pm
P.S. 93
1535 Story Ave
Bronx, NY 10473
(718) 842-2655
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