O’Gorman Junior High Wins National FBI-SOS Internet Challenge
Seventh Graders Are the Nation’s Best in December
| FBI Minneapolis January 24, 2011 |
SIOUX FALLS, SD—O’Gorman Junior High in Sioux Falls, SD has earned the FBI-SOS (Safe Online Surfing) Internet Challenge seventh grade national championship for the month of December. The students posted the best score in the country amongst seventh graders to claim the highly-coveted national award.
As FBI-SOS Internet Challenge national champions for December, the students at O’Gorman Junior High will receive the FBI-SOS National Trophy and a visit from the FBI. Supervisory special agents from the Sioux Falls Office and the Minnesota Cyber Crimes Task Force will present the award. The official award ceremony will take place on January 26 at O'Gorman Junior High located at 3100 West 41st Street Sioux Falls, SD 57105.
Under the guidance of Tara L. Johanneson, the group of seventh 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.
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 91,000 school students in 41 states have participated in the FBI-SOS Internet Challenge.