24.05.2007 – 12:35

SWITCH

Switch: Students conquer the "Green Diamond"

Zurich (ots)

- Indication: The images can be downloaded at:
     http://www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100004516  -

The Junior Web Award launched by SWITCH is proving
particularly popular. Students are learning about the internet and
having a great deal of fun in the process. The island that features
in the Junior Web Award was recently baptised and now bears the name
of "Green Diamond".

Large numbers of school classes had spent time pondering over a
name for the "terra incognita", and then the most popular name was
established in a public vote organised by Blick Online. The prize was
an Epson EMP-TWD3 projector, which will enable the students to
benefit from a genuine cinema-like experience in their classroom.
"Green Diamond" was the name that received by far the biggest number
of votes. And the winners are primary school class 6b from the
Grossacker School in St. Gallen.

"Finding a suitable name took a great deal of effort"

Class teacher Emil Wenk was delighted to be awarded the prize. He
will be using the multi-functional Epson home cinema system as
frequently as possible in his teaching at the school. The children
were also fascinated by this attractive multimedia unit. They were
the ones that had engaged in a strenuous brainstorming session. In
the final instance, it was a student from Cambodia who had had the
idea that the island looked like a green diamond.

Project phase in full swing

Since the SWITCH Junior Web Award was launched in March 2007 an
increasing number of students and teachers have been captivated by
it. So far, more than 200 school classes have registered for the
competition. These are classes from primary schools and level 1 and
level 2 secondary schools from all over Switzerland. The students are
creating their own websites in the categories of Design/Fun and
Theme/Content, which have to be submitted by 15th June 2007. Public
voting will then be conducted (16 - 30 June 2007) on the
www.juniorwebaward.ch website. The projects will then be submitted to
the jury team, made up of members of the "Best-of-Swiss-Web" jury,
for a definitive appraisal. The award ceremony will be held on 16
November 2007 in the Zurich Exhibition Halls.

The SWITCH Foundation has operated the Swiss Education & Research
Network since 1987, guaranteeing the universities access to the
information society. This high-performance network connects users in
Switzerland with each other, with Europe and with overseas. Operating
this network provides SWITCH with the necessary know-how and
technological foundation for running the registry for domain names
ending in .ch and .li.

Contact:

SWITCH
Séverine Manini
Limmatquai 138
Postfach
8021 Zürich
Tel.: +41/44/253'98'77
Fax: +41/44/268'15'68
E-Mail: severine.manini@switch.ch
Website: www.juniorwebaward.ch