Oracle Thinkquest
{{Short description|Educational website}}
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{{Infobox website
| name = ThinkQuest
| logo = Thinkquest logo.gif
| logo_size = 250px
| screenshot = Thinkquest website.gif
| screenshot_size = 250px
| caption = The ThinkQuest homepage
| url = [http://www.thinkquest.org/ www.thinkquest.org] {{dead|date=April 2023}}
| commercial = Nonprofit
| type = Educational website
| language = Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, and Turkish
| registration = Required
| owner = Oracle Education Foundation
| author = Allan H. Weis
| launch_date = 1996 (acquired by Oracle in 2002)
| current_status = Discontinued (as of July 1, 2013)
| revenue =
}}
ThinkQuest was an educational website, created 1996 and intended for primary and secondary schools. Beginning 2002 it was owned by the Oracle Education Foundation and was known as Oracle ThinkQuest.
History
ThinkQuest was created in 1996 by Allan H. Weis as part of his nonprofit Advanced Network and Services (ANS). The website and competition were acquired by the Oracle Education Foundation in 2002. Prior to being acquired by the Oracle Education Foundation, April Wennerstrom (née Buther) led the international training and evaluation program for the competition and worked with a cadre of international educators and judges to identify scholarship recipients. During its time under ANS' leadership, the organization gave over $1.5 million dollars annually for scholarships and support for the student-created sites and program participants spanned over 75 countries and six continents. As of July 1, 2013, the ThinkQuest initiative was discontinued.http://www.thinkquest.org/en/ -- or, the archived [https://web.archive.org/web/20130901043437/http://www.thinkquest.org/en/ copy] thereof, courtesy of the "Wayback Machine" managed by the Internet Archive
Features
=ThinkQuest Projects=
Competition
Thinkquest competition 2012 was the last competition organised by Oracle.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100421073056/http://www.thinkquest.org/ ThinkQuest]