Team
IsabellaSavannah Christian Middle School, GA, United States
CorinneSavannah Christian Middle School, GA, United States
SarahSavannah Christian Middle School, GA, United States
AbigailSavannah Christian Middle School, GA, United States
CamdenSavannah Christian Middle School, GA, United States
SarahSavannah Christian Middle School, GA, United States
Age Range
15 & under
Coaches
Bonnie FurnanzSavannah Christian Middle School, GA, United States
Linda FidlerSavannah Christian Middle School, GA, United States
Category
Sports & Recreation > Olympic Games
Audience
Ages 12 and up
Language
English
Site Features
Online Activity / Game
Quiz
Teacher Resources (Lesson Plans, Worksheets)
Video / Sound
Team Collaboration
Our team worked together by using our individual strengths and by helping each other with our weaknesses. Camden, who has a wonderful sense of design, helped pick out the site colors, backgrounds, and pictures. Isabella, who has excellent writing skills, wrote the homepage, about us, and many other important pages. Sarah W. helped film many interview videos and took pictures using her strong technical abilities. Sarah L. used her ability to focus to create the menu and to help meet deadlines. With her strong researching capabilities, Abigail found helpful information for all of her teammates and kept them organized. Corinne's ability to stay on task was helpful to the team because she finished her pages early and helped the rest of the team get their jobs done. Our team faced many challenges during the creation of our site. Some of these obstacles included communication errors, technical issues, interview cancellations, and image and site malfunctions. We overcame these challenges by working together as a team, changing interview plans, compromising with each other, finding image programs with higher quality, and researching how to fix our technical problems. We divided our tasks by the sports we found interesting and appealing. Some of us had no idea where the sports we chose originated or even how they were played, but with research and time, we learned about them and understood the techniques and rules involved in the game. When someone needed help with research or citations, other team members cheerfully pitched in and shared responsibility upon request. Without everyone's teamwork and cooperation, our website could not have been completed.
Team Diversity
Our Olympic Women team members’ diversity helped us create a wonderful website for global use. Consisting of 7th and 8th grade females, some new to ThinkQuest and some veteran competitors, we learned to work well together over the course of the year in spite of our differences. The 8th graders brought maturity and expert web design knowledge to the team while the 7th graders brought new ideas and energy to the team. The older students learned responsibility and how to take charge of important tasks and when to delegate tasks. The younger students learned that when they were assigned a task, they had to perform it to their best abilities since others were depending on them. Because we were all females, we worked diligently and were absorbed in our tasks.
Research has shown also that first born children are often perfectionists and hard workers. This was evident on our team. Most of the team members who were first born were very diligent in completing the tasks assigned them.
Although there were no major socio-economic differences on our team, there were many cultural differences. Isabella, of German, Irish, Welsh, and Dutch descent was able to relate many of her pages back to the Eastern Hemisphere. Camden, who is of Irish, Scottish and English descent, was able to use these cultures to help with her soccer research since soccer, or football, is very popular in that part of the world. Sarah W., who is German, Welsh, Cherokee Indian, and Dutch, used her interest in her background to help her find out information about curling. Abigail, who is of Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Polish, German, and Italian descent, knew many interesting facts about the Olympics because of her cultures. Sarah L., who is of Scottish, Irish, Welsh, English, and French descent, knew a great deal of information concerning Alpine Skiing and Equestrian events in the Olympics. Corinne, whose family comes from Scotland and New Zealand, had lots of interesting and exotic information to share with her teammates.
All of the team members each brought their different view points to the 2008-2009 team making it quite a diverse team of web designers.
