Dover-Eyota Elementary School Wins National FBI-SOS Internet Challenge
Fourth-Graders are the Nation's Best in October

MINNEAPOLIS, MN—Dover-Eyota Elementary School in Eyota, MN, has earned the FBI-SOS (Safe Online Surfing) Internet Challenge fourth grade national championship for the month of October. The students posted the best score in the country amongst fourth-graders to claim the highly coveted national award.

As FBI-SOS Internet Challenge national champions for October, the students at Dover-Eyota Elementary School will receive the FBI-SOS National Trophy and a visit from the FBI. The official award ceremony will take place at 2:00 p.m. on November 22 at Dover-Eyota Elementary School located at 615 South Avenue, Eyota, MN 55934.

Under the guidance of Media Specialist Kathy Martin, the group of fourth-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 Federal Bureau of Investigation (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, learning 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 77,000 school students in 41 states have participated in the FBI-SOS Internet Challenge.