King George Middle School Wins National FBI-SOS Internet Challenge
Eighth Graders Are the Nations Best in April

Students from King George Middle School in King George, Virginia earned the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Safe Online Surfing (FBI-SOS) Internet Challenge eighth grade national championship for April 2011. The students posted the best score in the country amongst eighth graders to claim the highly coveted national award.

As FBI-SOS Internet Challenge national champions for April, the students at King George Middle School will receive an FBI-SOS national trophy and be visited by the FBI. The official award ceremony will take place on Friday, May 27, 2011, at 8:30 a.m. at King George Middle School, located at 8246 Dahlgren Road in King George, Virginia.

Under the guidance of Kathy Carr, the group of eighth 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 King George’s win, there were approximately 132,000 students across the country that had participated in the FBI-SOS Internet Challenge. April FBI-SOS statistics: 1,589 eighth graders representing 64 schools across 22 states participated and competed for the eighth grade trophy; of those, 198 students were from King George Middle School.