Stephon Cobbin

Jeff Thill

Brandon Calhoun

Lee Cripe

Steven Haddad

Janice Lawson

Robert Loyd

Katie Melsh

Therese Swigart

Calvin Richmond
(plus an interview with Calvin)

Coolidge Kids and the Lincoln InfoLine-- Prize Winning Stories... "The Worst Day of My Life!"



Stephon Cobbin Wins First Prize When the LINCOLN Project & Coolidge School Team Up with New Learning Technology

Students at Coolidge School in Phoenix, Illinois are experiencing the thrill of getting on the information superhighway as they simultaneously publish their stories on the World Wide Web and become international recording artists. Governors State University’s Lincoln Project, headed by Larry McClellan of the South Metropolitan Regional Leadership Center, has created the ultimate in information accessibility by using modern phone telephony and computer technology to make both publishing and performing a reality for 6th, 7th and 8th graders at Coolidge School.

Teachers, students, and Lincoln staff started off the new school with their new and highly innovative Coolidge School InfoLine and a month long contest. Students were challenged to write a creative story about the ‘Worst Day of My Life.’ Winners were selected from over 170 students who entered the contest. The grand prize was a new computer donated for the contest by Turner Telecom of Bowling Green Kentucky. Winners stories may soon be heard on the Lincoln InfoLine at 708/235-4132, and can be read on the LincolnNet.

The Coolidge School InfoLine is part of the Voices of Phoenix and the LINCOLN Project at Governors State University. One of the goals of the LINCOLN Project is to create new ways of providing information access to widely diverse groups. The LINCOLN Project is one of the first in the country to combine innovative computer telephony with Internet and World Wide Web resources.

Top winner among 7th grade entrants was Calvin Richmond and top winner among 8th graders was Katie Melsh. Other runners-up include Jessica Burton (6th), Brandon Calhoun (6th), Lee Cripe (7th), Stephen Haddad (7th), Janice Lawson (7th), Robert Loyd (7th), and Jeff Thill (8th).