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After having won the first prize in
the International part of the Newspaper Day twice last year, we even
tried to publish an improved third edition of our prize-winning
paper The Ulricianum Times. Weeks
before already see us trying to prepare for Newspaper Day on March
22 - but the results are more than meagre. We decide to purchase a
new DTP program, Timeworks, as we were not satisfied with the one we
used before. Three days prior
to the exciting day we are trying to get along with the new program
and like the results, although it takes some time to feel familiar
with it. And then the whole newspaper group travels down to Hanover
to have a close look at the CeBIT, the biggest computer fair in this
world. Our electronic mail
projects are exhibited there on a stand of Lower Saxony's Ministry
of Education, the first two editions of our paper are shown, a lot
of pictures from the Newspaper Days, CAMPUS 2000 material, the video
'Making the News' is shown here, and Mick Adlam with Chris Davison
are representing CAMPUS 2000. A lot of interested people from
education and other branches look around, gather information, envy
those schools that have access to Campus as they do like the
advantages of electronic mail and would like to do the same if only
they had a modem and enough money to cover the telephone costs. Wednesday
morning: most of us are tired, Hanover was quite strenuous, but we
are looking forward to receiving the first news items, especially as
there should be some from three pupils of our group who transmit
their CeBIT news from Hanover directly to England. And it doesn't
take long until the news material pours out of the printer -
excellent material this time (thanks to Lisa Rosario!!), many
interesting pages can be filled with it: so everywhere you can see
pupils from grade 9 to grade 13 writing busily, typing their
articles, doing the layout. And there's more to do than ever: we
plan to fill 12 pages, four more than last time, and we have to be
ready at 6.00 pm, as our newspaper will be printed in a printing
machine before the local papers are printed there - 5.000 copies are
worth starting the big machine! Nobody really notices that cameras
are around, as 3sat -a German cable TV-station- is making a film on
the Newspaper Day, but who cares when there are a lot of empty pages
waiting to be filled? Buns,
coffee and cake help us to survive until 3.00 pm when there's a
quick conference to decide which texts to take - a running messenger
brings fax-comics from our caricaturist Heide, sitting in a
post-office in Berlin where she's drawing them according to our
needs. And then the layout with glue and scissors starts. HELP, we
forgot to fill page two, where are some more articles - everywhere,
but who knows whether this one already is there ... hectic, panic,
stress, excitement - and two hours later the last page is finished -
and we are near a breakdown! But happy and glad that we succeeded
for a third time! One hour
later we meet in the pub, have a pizza, enjoy a drink, are proud,
already criticise details of the pages - and wait for the first
newspapers. At 10.00 pm we load 5.000 copies into a van, take some
into the pub - and can relax with an enjoyable newspaper, although
three of us have to be up at 4.00 am in the morning, as we have to
transport 3.000 copies to Hanover to spread them out on the CeBIT,
where very many people are interested in seeing what 35 pupils in
Aurich produced within one day: and proud they can be of their
product as it is even better than the last Ulricianum Times -
but will it be good enough to win for a third time? CNN:
CeBIT
'90 News
Network by
Tilman Siebert On this year's
CeBIT, the largest computer fair in existence, the Gymnasium
Ulricianum (Aurich Grammar School) was represented by three students
(grades 10, 11, 13) who ran a news agency on the stand of the
Niedersächsisches Kultusministerium (Ministry of Education of the
state of Lower Saxony). Although
there was no telephone line on the stand of CNN, lots of articles on
lots of topics got sent to a mailbox (thanks to Deutsche Bundespost)
from which participating schools from all over the world could
access information for the Times/Tandon International Newspaper Day.
At the same time, CNN wrote articles for The Ulricianum Times
which was published on 23 March 1990. 
Tilman
Siebert am Stand in Hannover Reporting
from the CeBIT wasn't always easy, since there were approximately
3600 exhibitors at this year's computer fair and the offer of
information was too large. CNN therefore had to look out for
highlights and special developments. Very helpful was the main topic
of this year's International Newspaper Day 'Computers in Environment
Protection'. By using the CeBIT's electronic information system,
CNN's reporters found lots of interesting spots like a stand of a
Soviet university which developed a simulation program for
environmental processes, the East German computer firm Robotron,
'Business USA' and so on. Unfortunately, the Gymnasium Ulricianum
never received any of CNN's reports due to technical problems. But
we'll be back and it will work the next time!
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