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Bangladeshi schools participate in Doors to Diplomacy and Cyber Fair 2007

Four GCE schools from Bangladesh have participated in this year's Doors to Diplomacy and Cyber fair web project competition. The Doors to Diplomacy is an educational challenge to encourage school students around the world to conduct web projects that teach others about the importance of international affairs and diplomacy. The International Schools CyberFair is an award-winning, authentic learning program used by schools and youth organizations around the world. Through this project, young students conduct research and publish their findings on the Web. Four GCE schools from Bangladesh have participated in this year's Doors to Diplomacy and Cyber fair web project competition. The Doors to Diplomacy is an educational challenge to encourage school students around the world to conduct web projects that teach others about the importance of international affairs and diplomacy. The International Schools CyberFair is an award-winning, authentic learning program used by schools and youth organizations around the world. Through this project, young students conduct research and publish their findings on the Web.

The students and lead teachers from the Bangladeshi GCE schools collected contents for their web projects both from online and offline sources. The internet enabled ILCs at the participating schools have been proving very helpful for the students in gathering resources from the web. The students also collected contents for their projects from offline sources such as, interviewing experts, community members and relevant institutions. The Information Technology department of Relief International has facilitated participation of the schools by hiring a dedicated web domain for hosting the websites and providing technical feedback on the websites.

The list of the projects with name of the participating schools and links to the respective websites:
Doors to Diplomacy Project from Bangladesh
Rani Bilashmoni Govt. Boys' High School, Gazipur: The Extreme Way Down
Siraj Uddin Sarker Vidyaniketan, Tongi: Herbal Medicare In Bangladesh
Yusuf Multipurpose Boys High School, Comilla:Peace vs Ambush
Cyber Fair Project from Bangladesh
Rani Bilashmoni Govt. Boys' High School , Gazipur: Historical Landmarks
Siraj Uddin Sarker Vidyaniketan, Tongi :Economy Behind Culture

The Global Connections and Exchange Project – Bangladesh is a project of Relief International - Schools Online's Global
Citizenship & Youth Philanthropy Program and has been made possible with major funding from the United States State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Global Catalyst Foundation.