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  • Educational Olympics Helps Kids Learn How to Learn
    by Allan Weis · Sep 04, 2009 · EDUCATION

    ThinkQuest, the educational Olympics on the Web, motivates kids to create educational web sites and content for others to use as they learn. A passionate believer in the power of the Net to revolutionize learning and close the educational resources gap among students, I founded ThinkQuest® in 1995.

    A philanthropic initiative designed as a competition, ThinkQuest honored its annual winners with up to $2,000,000 in scholarships and cash awards, and became the fastest growing Internet-based educational program in the world.

    The most innovative idea in ThinkQuest is the ThinkQuest journey – the path the kids and their coaches take to participate in the program. Along this path, kids learn how to learn, they learn how to use and push the technology to make their sites fun and attractive, they learn the topic they are trying to teach others, they learn how to work with each other across economic and cultural boundaries, and they learn project management skills.

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Allan Weis

Allan Weis is the founder of Advanced Network and Services (ANS), a nonprofit technology company that is responsible for creating the backbone for the internet. ANS is responsible for ThinkQuest.com, an educational Olympics on the web that has reached students across the globe. Allan Weis attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked for IBM before he started his own company. In recent years, he has spent a lot of time and money on researching the future of communications and technologies. One day he hopes this research will lead to a virtual realm that will become the future of business and education.

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