A Message from the
MOE Web Team Mentor

As the MOE Web Team Mentor, I am proud of what our dedicated students have accomplished.

First, no site management program such as FrontPage® or Dreamweaver® has been used. Our site is coded using text editors such as Notepad and the Crimson Editor.

We have been blessed with some very talented coders who have, for example:

• Created a PHP structure for the site incorporating cascading style sheets
• Enhanced our HTML code to include new tags adapting to current web design, and coding standards such as div statements and CSS to replace earlier types of formatting

We also have had students very talented in graphics and photography, who have:

• Created animated GIFs that add interest to the site
• Drawn and/or edited custom graphics, and pictures for our site
• Edited photos for the Web, and optimized them to small file sizes for fast page loading, even for those on dial-up
• Created a custom MOE-themed desktop background available for download on the site

The SITE LAYOUT, including the organization of the navigation, the graphic representations, the look-and-feel, and the ideas come from our dedicated Web Team. It has been a pleasure to work with the bright, enthusiastic MOE Web Team students for nine years, and they have helped keep me feeling young!

STUDENT PRIVACY is extremely important for our team. For the protection of our students we do not put students' names with their photos on this site, and students are generally referred to only by their first names. The only students who have their names and e-mail addresses posted here are those to whom public inquiries should be sent, for instance the Webmaster and Competition Team Strategist. This precludes our inclusion of such human interest items as student profiles, but we feel that the precautions are quite worthwhile.

If you haven't yet visited our Web Team page, please take the opportunity meet this year's talented crew!

Sincerely,

John Wilkens
MOE Web Team Mentor