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Rodney Thompson Middle School Wins National FBI-SOS Internet Challenge

FBI Richmond April 01, 2011
  • Media Coordinator/COS Dennette Rybiski (804) 261-1044

Rodney Thompson Middle School in Stafford, Virginia earned the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Safe Online Surfing (FBI-SOS) Internet Challenge sixth grade national championship for December 2010. The students posted the best score in the country amongst sixth-graders to claim the highly coveted National award.

As FBI-SOS Internet Challenge national champions for December, the students at Rodney Thompson Middle School will receive the FBI-SOS National Trophy and be visited by the FBI. The official award ceremony will take place on Monday, April 4, 2011, at 8:45 a.m. at Rodney Thompson Middle School located at 75 Walpole Street, Stafford, Virginia.

Under the guidance of Cara R. Jones, the group of 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.

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 post-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.

At the time of Rodney Thompson’s win, there were approximately 91,000 students in 41 states that had participated in the FBI-SOS Internet Challenge. December FBI-SOS statistics: 1103 sixth grade students representing 42 schools across 17 states participated and competed for the sixth grade trophy. A total of 51 students from Rodney Thompson Middle School participated in the program.