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Two Student Tech Team members from each of the 12 Core Schools participated in C·R·E·A·T·E for Mississippi's Computer Building 101, a one-day workshop during which each group assembled and configured desktop computers that became the property of their respective schools.
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| Tupelo's Student Tech Team worked with Traceway Retirement Community, helping senior citizens learn computer basics such as Web browsing and e-mail use. Governor of Mississippi, Ronnie Musgrove, was present for one session and was able to see the STT at work in the community.
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| Tupelo's Student Tech Team won the Youth Entrepreneurship Education Springboard Award from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) for work they carried out as part of their Excel Technology classes and STT duties.
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| Chickasaw County's Student Tech Team presented a hands-on workshop presentation at the 2002 Mississippi Educational Computing Association's annual meeting in Jackson, Mississippi. During this workshop, team members taught workshop participants the fundamentals of Microsoft PowerPoint and ways to use this software to create chapter outlines from textbooks.
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| Chambers Middle School Student Tech Team assisted the community of Arcola by creating programs/flyers, t-shirts, and name badges for local community organizations, as well as providing parent technology training at the school.
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| West Lauderdale's Student Tech Team assembled 24 working computers and setup a middle school lab using computer parts from donations made by the Meridian Naval Air Station and Mississippi State University.
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| Tupelo's Student Tech Team earned more than $1000.00 through the creation and sale of calendars to use for training that enabled them to create and maintain their middle school's new Web site.
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| Chambers Middle School's Student Tech Team provided routine and individual technology training sessions for teachers. During these the students are rated by the teachers for their knowledge, attitude, and professional demeanor.
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| East Jasper's Student Tech Team implemented fund-raising activities that enabled them to pay their expenses for attending the Mississippi Educational Computing Association's (MECA) annual meeting. In addition they used the proceeds to donate $200.00 toward the purchase of equipment for the school's library.
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| Hunter Middle School's Student Tech Team participated in Inside-the-Computer training at the school, learning how much money can be saved by ordering parts and assembling computers rather than purchasing finished products.
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| New Hope's Student Tech Team's daily class allowed the students to work on projects such as designing CD covers and creating their own birth certificates that incorporated digital photographs of themselves.
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| South Delta's Student Tech Team's use of video equipment and video-editing software made available through the C·R·E·A·T·E grant enabled them to produce a videotape entitled A Day in the Life, a chronicle of the STT's daily activities. Team members also created a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation about September 11th that was used at a school-wide assembly and in the schools' Social Studies classes.
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| West Lauderdale's Student Tech Team assisted the school's Career Day by creating a series of Microsoft PowerPoint presentations about different careers, presentations that were viewed by all 8th grade students at the school.
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| A West Point Student Tech Team member won 2nd place in the Mississippi Educational Computing Association's multimedia design contest for students under the tutelage of the school's ET.
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