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Welcome! And getting your students started ...

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to the Whyville Texas Challenge! Here are some hints to get your students started in the competition.

FOR STUDENTS (OR YOU!) TO PRACTICE:

1. Have them click the "Practice" links on the home page! This is just practicing - they are not competing yet.

STUDENT SIGN-UP:

1. Pass on the promotion code/s you received when signing up your classes for the competition.

2. Send students to www.why-texas.com and have them click on the "Preseason," "Game Start May 5" or "Competition Home" graphic.

3. Have them follow the instructions to sign up as a student.

FOR STUDENTS TO COMPETE:

1. DO NOT click on the practice links on the home page. This is practicing - not competing!

2. INSTEAD, send your students to www.whyville.net and have them sign in.

3. Have them go to Bioplex or PlaneWorks from the Bus menu (literally, look for the menu under the Bus!).

TOMORROW - How to see your student's scores ...
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More prizes!

There are many new teachers signing up for the challenge each day. This promises to be a lively competition!

Now there are prizes for students also. Any student who refers their teacher to enter the Whyville Texas Challenge will receive 2500 clams in their Whyville account (however those clams do not count toward the challenge). In addition, all students in the first place classes will receive a virtual Scion to drive around in Whyville -- this is over a 25,000 clam value!

Next blog -- Hints for increasing clam scores!

Texashome 

May Competition!

The excitement is building for the Whyville Texas Challenge that begins May 5. Eleven classes throughout the state of Texas have signed up and are practicing now. One class has over 26,000 clams (!) accumulated in the Advanced Manufacturing challenge. These won't count in the competition, of course, but this class will be well-practiced.

Some teachers are running into a block on Whyville by their district IT filters. They can still compete -- they just have the students enter and play on their home computers.