Ascencion Solorsano Middle School Wins National FBI-SOS Internet Challenge Eighth Graders Are the Nation's Best in February
| FBI San Francisco April 15, 2011 |
GILROY, CA—Ascencion Solorsano Middle School in Gilroy, California has earned the FBI- Safe Online Surfing (SOS) Internet Challenge eighth grade national championship for the month of February by tackling a course that includes learning about the effects and dangers of cyberbullying and the importance of Internet safety.
As FBI-SOS Internet Challenge national champions, the students at Ascencion Solorsano Middle School posted the best score in the country among eighth-graders and will receive the highly coveted FBI-SOS National Trophy and a visit from FBI special agents and employees.
The official award ceremony will take place on April 19 at Ascencion Solorsano Middle School at 7121 Grenache Way, Gilroy, CA 95020.
Judy McLeod, an educator at the school, guided the group of eighth-graders as they produced the top cumulative results on the FBI-SOS Internet Challenge post-quiz.
The FBI-SOS program was developed and administered by the FBI and the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University. This program runs each school year from September through May, is free, and delivers critical Internet safety information in a fun, competitive format for third to eighth graders, 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, such as Internet predators and cyberbullying.
Each month, students from registered schools take an online pre-quiz, learning 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.
To date, approximately 108,000 school students in 41 states have participated in the FBI-SOS Internet Challenge.