Kamchatka Children's Communications (KamCC) is non-goverment  organization,

registered at August 31,1994,by the Department of Justice of Kamchatka Regional 

Administration, certificate #122.

  KamCC has formally coordinated the efforts of an enthusiastic group to use computer 

communications in education.

  The message of Joel Halvorson through Internet in 1992 set the start for contacts 

between Minnesota  and Kamchatka school via E-mail.None of our teachers were 

able to receive message directly,as  there was no access to E-mail at that time. 

However, such contacts seemed quite important and  promising to Sergey Poluektov, 

an oceanographer and computer expert, and he decide to help a near-by school 

in setting  up the E-mail connection. An English teacher, Irina Ivanova, responded to

 the suggestion enthusiastically by involving some other students at school #15 in the 

inter-school E-mail correspondence. As the school had no computers, an arrangement 

was made with Engineering  Center of Fishing Industry, whereby the students would be 

able to use computers and E-mail account at the Engineering Centre.

   Shortly thereafter, a computer programmer Zena Ponomareva, also envisioned such 

opportunities  and became activly involved in the project.

  Zena and Sergey explained to the teachers both the importance and the need for use 

of computer  communications at present time, as world society takes newstep in the 

creation of the  Information Age.  It's especially important for Russia, as our people 

was very isolated.

 Since 1995 we have supporting from regional Department of Educational.

During 1995-96 school year Jon Lauritzen, a teacher from Chisago, MN, 

had teach English in school in Petropavlovsk and made some Internet 

projects with Minnesota schools.







 Some words about recent activity from 

our very active newcomer Svetlana:



Hello! My name is Svetlana Dorogaitseva, and I'd like

to tell about the work of my group.  My kids are from

different public schools in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy.

Their ages vary from 11 to 16.  And their interests

are very different, but they still find it interesting

to work in this group where we correspond with American

students.  We work on projects usually one at a time.

The ideas for the projects come from KamCC material or 

from the kids.



Now some words about the projects.  The one we started

with was regarding the knowledge of the native country

America.  The students thought of all they could about

the USA and then we made a list of various statements.

Then we sent it to our correspondents in three different

states (Utah, Michigan and Florida) and asked them what

they thought about it.  Guess what:  two-thirds of our

statements were correct!  Some responses were contradictory

even if they came from the same city!  



Some other projects were called "Family Budget," 

"Ideal Spouse," "My Future Family," and "Gender

Roles."  



With some of our friends we have such a close relationship

that we decided to exchange packages with pictures, 

booklets, and other things about schools and cities.

Furthermore, a newspaper in Salt Lake City featured

our exchange in one of their issues. The paper included

a large photo of the American teacher with her pupils.



We would love to continue and develop this exchange

program and find new correspondents and hopefully

new friends!