Your Project Title

Link to Our Entry

Your Entry Category

Number of Students who worked on this Project students, Ages of Students who worked on this Project worked together to complete this project on Date that Project was Finished. They have participated in CyberFair/Doors to Diplomacy in the following years): List of Years you have participated in CyberFair/Doors to Diplomacy

Team Members: Names of the students and adult coaches that participated (maximum: 4 students and 2 adult coaches)

E-Mail contact: Link to Project Email Contact

School/Organization: Your School Name

School/Organization Web Site: Link to Our School Web Site

Bibliography and Citations: Link to Our Project Bibliography

1. Description of Our Team

Describe your Doors to Diplomacy team members. Please use only the  FIRST NAMES of student team members, and include the ages of the students. Tell why you joined together as a team to do this project and tell how you divided up all of the different jobs that a project like this involves. Also list names of the adult coaches and tell how they contributed to your project.
Limit your comments to 300 words (2000 characters).

2. Summary of Our Project

Write a brief overview that tells the purpose of your Doors to Diplomacy project. It is very important that you tell how your project teaches others the importance of international affairs and diplomacy.
Limit your comments to 300 words (2000 characters). You may use the same description that you submit in your final entry form.

3. Our Computer and Internet Access

A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home: Your Answer

B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom or facility: Your Answer

C. Connection speed used in the classroom or facility: Your Answer

D. Number of years the classroom or facility has been connected to the Internet: Your Answer

E. Additional comments concerning your computer and/or Internet access (Optional):
Limit your comments to 150 words (1000 characters) or less. If you have a compelling story to tell, then create a Web page as part of your project pages and make a link here.

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

Write a brief description of the barriers, including technical obstacles, that you and your students faced during this project. Tell how you overcame or otherwise dealt with these obstacles.

Limit your comments to 300 words (2000 characters) or less. If you have a compelling story to tell, then create a Web page as part of your project pages and make a link here.

5. Our Project Sound Bite

Provide a ONE or two sentence "quotation" that BEST summarize what your participation in this project has meant to either your students, your school, or your community.

Limit your comments to 100 words (500 characters) or less. If you have a compelling story to tell, then create a Web page as part of your project pages and make a link here. We will share these comments with the media.

6. How did your activities and research for this international project support required coursework and curriculum standards?

Questions to Consider

• Which content standards did your project address?
• How did this project fit into your required school, district, or state curriculum guidelines?
• What new skills did students learn?
• What group concepts did you practice?
• How do you better understand diplomacy and international issues?
• What discoveries did you make about your educational system? About the role you play in your school community?
• Has using the Internet for teaching and learning been more effective than traditional methods? If so, explain?

Limit your comments to 300 words (2000 characters) or less. If you have a compelling story to tell, then create a Web page as part of your project pages and make a link here.

1) Did you provide a complete bibliography explaining where you got your information?

Make sure accurate citations are provided for anything that is not original student work, including graphics, images, music and video.

2) What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your project?

This list can include things like:

• number and type of computers
• telephones
• TV and radio stations
• video and digital still cameras
• digitizers and scanners
• tape recorders
• video or other teleconferencing
• computer software
• libraries
• books, newspapers
• museums
• oral interviews

Questions to Consider

• How did these tools help you?
• Where did you locate each tool?
• Were any tools donated by businesses or schools?
• What were your most valuable tools? Why?
• Which technologies were the most helpful? How?

Be sure and tell any unique or unusual ways your students used information tools and technologies.

Limit your comments to 300 words (2000 characters) or less. If you have a compelling story to tell, then create a Web page as part of your project pages and make a link here.

3) In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your project both on-line and in person.

A primary goal of the Doors to Diplomacy Doors program is to raise awareness about the importance of international affairs and diplomacy.

In this section, tell how your team has acted, or will act, as "ambassadors" for your Web project to help raise awareness about the importance of international affairs and diplomacy. ( An "ambassador" represents his or her country or, in this case, project, to promote, inform and educate, publicize, and otherwise encourage people to visit and learn from your Web project.)

Describe contacts and connections you have made with potential visitors to your Web site, and describe future plans you have to encourage more visitors to your Web. Also share any interesting anecdotes or stories or outcomes of those contacts. For instance, did you get any visitors or donated services because of your contacts? Are people impressed with the work that you are doing? How did they tell you they are impressed?

Limit your comments to 300 words (2000 characters) or less. If you have a compelling story to tell, then create a Web page as part of your project pages and make a link here.

4) What has been the impact of your project on your community?

Realizing that your web site may not have been up very long, describe how your involvement in this project has strengthened the "relationship" between your school and your local community.

Questions to Consider

• How do you think your project make a difference?
• Have people in your community learned new things through your Web pages?
• Have other people around the world learned new things about your topic?
• Have you established some new working relationships with people in the community? Who besides you and your students has looked at your Web pages?
• What kind of feedback have you received?
• How has your Web site helped them?

Be sure you tell about the good things that your project has done at your school, among your parents, and within your community... whether they have anything to do with technology or not.

Limit your comments to 300 words (2000 characters) or less. If you have a compelling story to tell, then create a Web page as part of your project pages and make a link here.

5) How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers?

Most  teams need lots of advice and help to complete their entry... did yours?

Tell about your helpers: who they were, how you found and asked them, how they helped. This is a great place to give them a great big thanks. You can even link their stories to some pictures if you have them. (Be sure you have their permission to publish their pictures first, however.)

Also tell about those long-distance helpers who provided assistance from across the miles via the Internet.

Limit your comments to 300 words (2000 characters) or less. If you have a compelling story to tell, then create a Web page as part of your project pages and make a link here.

7) Did the News Media Know About Your Project?

How did they find out? Did they write articles or do a television news spot?
 

7) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)

Were there interesting discoveries you made, lessons you learned, or surprises that occurred as a result of this project? If so, take the time to share these insights and observations with your audience. Did this project lead to other awards or recognitions?

Limit your comments here to 300 words (2000 characters) or less. If you have a compelling story to tell, then create a Web page as part of your project pages and make a link here.