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So what are 9th graders doing for science fair projects these days?

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  1. rockHEAD

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    Girl's e-mail experiment clogs in-box for weeks

    JUNE KRONHOLZ
    Dow Jones News Service
    Feb. 14, 2003

    So you think you've got mail:

    On Jan. 13, Shannon Syfrett, a 15-year-old ninth-grader at Central Academy in Macon, Miss., launched a chain letter over the Internet. E-mail chains that seek responses from around the world are the latest rage in science-fair projects, as kids set out to learn where and how fast information travels.

    Shannon called her project "howfastorfar2003@aol.com," and she expected that in six weeks she "might get 2,000 or 3,000" replies to her note asking people to write back and pass her message along.

    That was her first miscalculation.

    :eek:
     
    #1 rockHEAD, Feb 18, 2003
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    Ladies and gentleman, the future of America!

    I hope she gets an F...
     
    #2 A-Train, Feb 18, 2003
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    Still, for a teenager who has been out of Mississippi just once, the project opened the world to her, Shannon said: "I just didn't know how nice these people were."

    Uh... somehow I doubt that the entire "world of the internet" was "opened up to her" if her parents haven't thrown the computer in the ol' muddy river by now. I wonder how many replies said "So how old are you again little girl? Got any pictures..." :(
     
    #3 Mulder, Feb 18, 2003
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    You know, about 8 years ago when email was still kind of new and not everyone had it, this would actually have been a pretty cool experiment. She might have actually been able to see the message propogate throughout the country over a period of weeks or maybe start with one person in a new country and watch it spread across that area, etc.

    Unfortunately, the world is now too wired to do an experiment like that.
     
    #4 Major, Feb 18, 2003
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    The irony and humor of the very next line (in red) after the story ends is priceless...:eek: :D
     
    #5 Falcons Talon, Feb 18, 2003
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    That's too funny. I wonder how many copycat emailers there'll be after people read about this.
     
    #6 Timing, Feb 18, 2003
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