Del E. Webb Middle School Wins National FBI-SOS Internet Challenge
The First School to Win in Clark County, Nevada; Sixth-Graders Are the Nation’s Best in January 2011

LAS VEGAS—Del E. Webb Middle School in Henderson, Clark County, Nevada, has earned the FBI-SOS (Safe Online Surfing) Internet Challenge sixth-grade national championship for the month of January 2011. The students posted the best score in the country amongst sixth-graders to claim the highly coveted national award. A total of 1279 sixth-grade students from 41 schools in 20 different states participated in January. This is the second school in the state of Nevada, and the first school in Clark County, to earn this prestigious award.

As FBI-SOS Internet Challenge national champions for January, the students at Del Webb Middle School will receive the FBI-SOS National Trophy and a visit from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The official award ceremony will take place on Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 9:30 a.m. during an assembly at Del Webb located at 220 Reunion Drive, Henderson, Nevada 89052.

Under the guidance of computer teachers Georgia Snyder and Pam Dusseau, the sixth-graders produced the top cumulative results on the FBI-SOS Internet Challenge post-quiz, which is the Internet safety program developed and administered by the FBI and the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University, Miami, Florida.

The monthly program, which runs each school year from September through May, is a free educational program that delivers critical Internet safety information in a fun, competitive format to students in grades three through eight, with a separate monthly challenge for each grade level. The program is open to public and private schools and is designed to meet state and federal Internet safety mandates. The goal of the program is to provide students with knowledge about how to avoid dangerous situations on the Internet, specifically Internet predators. Each month students from registered schools take an online pre-quiz, learn about Internet safety in the scavenger hunt, and then take an online quiz. At the end of each month, six trophies (one for each grade level) are awarded to the schools with the highest scoring students on the FBI-SOS post-quiz.

To date, approximately 100,000 school students in 41 states have participated in the FBI-SOS Internet Challenge. For more information about the FBI-SOS program, please contact Community Outreach Specialist Holly James with the FBI in Las Vegas at the above contact number.