- Our team is composed of four eighth grade girls - Ramya, Kaitlin, Katie, and Daniela from the Harker School- and is advised by both math teacher Ms.Kadam and biology teacher Ms.Claerbout. Three out of four members had participated in eCybermission in the 2006-2007 school year, two being on the same team and reaching the National level.
- What is this eCybermission we're talking about anyways? eCybermission is an online math and science competition which challenges teams to come up with a problem in their community and use the steps of the Scientific Method to propose or institute a solution.

- All reports and documents of team progress are updated to the eCybermission website; for example, interview transcriptions, fliers that we made, and etc. Also, we are required to complete a "Mission Folder", a series of questions about our project where we fill in information such as our hypothesis, our experimental procedure, our teamwork, and all of the other detailed aspects that judges read to assess our entry. In the whole 6-month process of the competition, teams never meet the judges or submit any paperwork (except to register). We only meet face-to-face with someone if we reach the National competition in Washington D.C. by placing as the top team in our region.

We have recently been chosen to participate in the National Judging and Educational Event in Washington D.C. this June since we placed first in our region. Wish us good luck there!

For more information on eCybermission, please visit www.ecybermission.com.

We chose our topic after several weeks of supposedly brilliant ideas that were not so brilliant after all, arguing, planning, researching, and almost giving up. Our inspiration came from a relatively obvious source - the headlines that surround us day to day. On the news, in the newspaper, in the magazines, and from our teachers, all we heard about was MRSA, or Methicillin Resistant Staph Aureus, an antibiotic resistant, dangerous, skin infection. Many questions formed - why are we only hearing about this now? Is it really a threat to our school? Is this going to be some sort of epidemic? Is our school doing enough to prevent it? It appeared as if we had found our topic, and in our eCybermission project we sought to answer these questions through interviews, experimentation, research, and community education. This website is part of our project's community education aspect, because we believe that awareness is the best prevention for almost anything, including dangerous diseases. MRSA is not a disease out to get you - it has been around for 50 years, and so fear is not the answer. If you have any more questions about our project, please contact us at mrsainfo@gmail.com. Thanks!