California Middle School Wins FBI National Internet Safety Challenge

The students of Ascencion Solorsano Middle School here have emerged national champions in the Federal Bureau of Investigation- Safe Online Surfing (SOS) Internet Challenge.The Ascencion Solorsano Middle School students posted the best score in the country among 8th graders and will receive the highly-coveted FBI-SOS National Trophy and a visit from FBI special agents and employees.Judy McLeod, an educator at the school, guided the group of 8th graders as they produced the top cumulative results on the FBI-SOS Internet Challenge post-quiz.The FBI-SOS program was developed and administered by the FBI and the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University. This program runs each school year from September through May, is free and delivers critical Internet safety information in a fun, competitive format for 3rd to 8th graders with a separate monthly challenge for each grade level.

The program is open to public and private schools and is designed to meet state and federal internet safety mandates. The goal of the program is to provide students with knowledge about how to avoid dangerous situations on the internet, such as internet predators and cyberbullying.Each month students from registered schools take an online pre-quiz, learning about internet safety in the scavenger hunt and then take an online quiz. At the end of each month, six trophies (one for each grade level) are awarded to the schools with the highest scoring students on the FBI-SOS Post-Quiz.

To date, approximately 108,000 school students in 41 states have participated in the FBI-SOS Internet Challenge.The official award ceremony will take place on April 19th at Ascencion Solorsano Middle School at 7121 Grenache Way, Gilroy, CA 95020.

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