Saturday, May 16, 1998: THE STRAITS TIMES Ho!
Virtual zoo tour
wins cyber-contest
ry, with its hom: 0 the S- “It was like a slumber
j Tor Minister tiled Leeder’s ty with people chit-ch
The Chinese High has landed a top Bdge Ie included’ pictorial Su vidatecrieenttakine were
ize in an international web-page history and list of his greatest in sleeping bags,” said Mr
Pp achi ts.
ae \ievement ., Goh Beng Yeow, 19, a first-
design competition open to schools seaiteieam members aaiit- year Nanyang. Polytechnic
By SAMANTHA se genre ia'iiges They were consoled by helt Se'vnd coordinate the Gy
SANTAMARIA ___— Conferencing on Thursday {eachers and principal, Mrs pais p
"THE Chinese High hi ata ceremony held in st Hwang-Lee Poh See, who Doh Toi
THE Chinese High has won Nicholas’ computer labora. We" at the 3 am ceremony. He said he was proud of all
fotemmatonel Cyberfains a tory. os Raffles Girls’ School, the teams. Their successes
b-page design competi ‘The other Singapore Whichheldits own ceremony, have spurred him, to start
FERRE ftted’soo schools schools among the semi, fecelved.an honourable men- work on the next Cyberfair.
Allover the world against malists “— Cedar Girls’ 0" in the category Environ-_“ plan to open it to prima
ne another. School, CHIT St Nicholas ™eMtal Awarencss. | syschools this time and invite
“ts team of three —Gal- Girls’ School and Raffles __The students stayed up over 50 schools to join in,” he
Yin Sng, Chen Kai Jie and Girls’ School — also netted fom 10 pm to 3 am the next aaded,
fin, Sng, Chen Kai fie and Gir day, when the results were #24@8
emekged Fest if the Local” Cedar came in second in brotdeast by Global School- Vins to Se antting pagrt
; 7 in et, the organisers of the e found at http:
fractions category with the Busines and Comment, vein, from He headquarters www singnet.com.s§
thee sok page he Singae Organi {in San Diego, California. Jebengyeow/el98
, Their creation takes visi- an entry showeasing su
tors on a virtual tour of the cessful homegrown compa-
Zoo, complete with audio _ nies.
interviews with several z00- Companies such as Sin-
‘keepers. gapore Airlines, City Devel-
The team is especially opments Limited and the
proud of the digital jigsaw Port of Singapore Authority
ruzzle on their site that al~ were featured in the entry.
lows users to put together _St Nicholas came in fifth
scrambled pieces of a pen- in the Local Leaders catego-
The winning web page, The Singapore Zoological
Adventure, takes visitors on a virtual tour of the
Zoo, complete with audio interviews with
several zookeepers.