Mission/Vision
The ThinkQuest programs encourage the advancement of education through the use of technology. ThinkQuest is also a growing online community where students and educators can come together to share information.
Competitions include the ThinkQuest Internet Challenge and...
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The ThinkQuest programs encourage the advancement of education through the use of technology. ThinkQuest is also a growing online community where students and educators can come together to share information.
Competitions include the ThinkQuest Internet Challenge and ThinkQuest Junior. As part of these competitions, students and educators form teams that develop educational websites which are published in our Library. A free, members only area allowing users to sign up for programs, receive news and communicate with others in the ThinkQuest Community. If you are not already a member, we encourage you to Join today and begin communicating with students and educators from around the world.
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What does the organization do?
Since its inception in 1996, 50,000 young Web designers from 100 countries have participated in the not-for-profit ThinkQuest programs, competing yearly for more than $1 million in scholarships and cash awards for themselves and their schools. The challenge encourages collaboration, leadership,...
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Since its inception in 1996, 50,000 young Web designers from 100 countries have participated in the not-for-profit ThinkQuest programs, competing yearly for more than $1 million in scholarships and cash awards for themselves and their schools. The challenge encourages collaboration, leadership, and critical thinking and helps raise students' self-esteem, along with their technological skills. Collectively these students, many of whom are new to technology, have created 4,000 Web sites on topics ranging from diplomacy to space exploration to growing up with epilepsy. These Web sites and are found in the ThinkQuest Library at http://www.thinkquest.org, the most heavily trafficked educational destination on the Internet with an estimated 120 million hits, and 2.5 million unique users, per month.
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Organization Status
Not-For-Profit (NFP)
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