YOUNG CROATIANS WON THE WORLD SPACE WEEK 2001 EDUCATIONAL AWARD

 

Washington DC, April 29 – Ivan Kravarscan, double champion of Croatia in informatics, and his friends, Lovro Miokovic and Zoran Arsenovic, all 8^th graders, were honored at the World Space Week Educational Awards Event as the winners of the Space Web Page Design Competition.

 

The award was given by Spaceweek International Association,  a U.S. nonprofit organization from Houston, Texas, to Croatian students, who earned the award by designing a space-related web page

(http://www.geocities.com/zokicaha/Space.htm).

 

In various categories, students from Yuce College, Ankara, Turkey and Millennium Middle School from Sanford, Florida, US were also awarded. Mindy Goodnight from San Angelo, Texas, Michael Kutsek and Jackie Scanlon from Pittsburgh, Phyllis Cannon from Clinton and Judy Raviotta from South Hill won the individual awards.

 

Zlatko Kovacevic and his students from ES Vladimir Nazor, Virovitica, Croatia built an exciting web site with sections about the International Space Station, the Hubble Space Telescope, and Earth-orbiting satellites. They included links to other space sites and even a picture of the World Space Week 2001 poster.

 

Winners of the World Space Week 2001 educational awards were honored at a luncheon in Greenbelt, Maryland and they also visited the nearby NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Senator Barbara Mikulski congratulated all the winners.

 

The Croatian Embassy participated in the preparation and organization of the students’ staying in Washington, DC, and an Embassy representative was present at the award ceremony.