Middle School
1st -- [JCMS AH]
2nd -- [JCMS TK]

All those involved -- students, faculty, administrators -- are invited to the reception at First United Methodist Church, 219 E 4th Street, Bloomington, beginning at 5 p.m. on Jan. 21, at which the winners will be honored.

Harmony School
[C&RG (age 7/9]

It is an opportunity to research and develop a position on the life and activities of Dr. King. Using the following themes, create a web site that conveys the information and teachings of Dr. King's life.

The theme for Elementary School asks:

• Who was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
• When people talk about Dr. King having a dream, what do they mean?
• What did Dr. King do or say that is of importance?
• How can we make Dr. King's dream our dream?

The City's King Commission celebrates Dr. King's birthday and promotes the acceptance of diversity.

• What does it mean to live in a diverse community?
• Are there benefits of living in a diverse society?
• What did Dr. King do, say or write that promotes the acceptance of diversity?
• What was Dr. King's dream?

The City's King Commission celebrates Dr. King's birthday and promotes the acceptance of diversity. In today's world, it is important to be a global thinker. This means being able to think about issues and perspectives beyond one’s own neighborhood, city, state or nation, and being able to apply knowledge and ethical judgment to challenges in the world.

• How was Dr. King a global thinker?
• What did he do, say, or write that indicates such a perspective?

Note that the deadline is later this year -- Tuesday, Jan. 15 -- so students will have time to work on their entries after returning from the holiday break. Also, the Commission is offering cash prizes which may be supplemented by additional awards such as i-Pods®, etc.

We would recommend that student web pages be stored on MCCSC resources. While we will do all we can to link to pages stored off-site, we can not guarantee that pages on sites such as Angelfire, Geocities, or other, will always be accessible. Many school filtering systems block these domains because of the number of inappropriate private sites hosted by those vendors. In addition, what is accessible one day may not be the next if one of these sites is found to have changed the way it delivers pages. In other words, we'd much rather provide space for your teachers to use than to struggle with off-site hosts.

It is difficult, often impossible, to move content from an off-site host to an MCCSC site. Pages built on Google, for example, can not be transferred to another host. There should be no problem linking to Google pages, but if a problem develops, we won't be able to move the page so that it can be viewed.

If teachers do not have (or know if he/she has) MCCSC web space, have her/him e-mail us at accounts @ mccsc.edu. We will either create web space or force a password for space they already have. It is possible -- and many schools choose this option -- to house the pages on directories which are part of the school's web site. Either way is acceotable.

Right after the first of the year, participants should begin sending the URLs of the contest pages to czager @ mccsc.edu. These will be listed on the MLK pages and judged from that location after the deadline.

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