Best Photos of a Sunday Morning Computer Lab
~ showing a teacher in action, plus, a creative design element, or something special/eye-catching  ~

1st Prize and winner of $100 in software
St. Thomas Presbyterian Church, Houston Texas
for their "Mission Control" Bible computer lab,
a theme which they carried through the lab.

St. Thomas' first place entry demonstrates a theme carried throughout the entire lab, right down to the table legs!  Notice the CD window curtain, mannequin in NASA flight suit, Hi-Tech looking sheetmetal tabletop, and silver flexible venting on table legs. St. Thomas reports that this picture shows them using laptops borrowed from members to get started, and the response to the lab has so good that a member is donating four desktops. They have plans to decorate the lab even more, including a switchbox that has outerspace sound effects. They also sent in a photo of their creative outerspace doorway.  View other pictures of this lab.

2nd Prize and winner of $ 75 in software

Lawrenceburg Seventh-day Adventist Church
Lawrenceburg Tennessee
for their Starship Ecclesia, -unique lab arrangements, -connection of multiple keyboards
and mice to one game (Bongo) which the "crew" is playing together on "The Bridge," -and for their fun & candid photos of students in action. The photo quality isn't the best, but we couldn't resist the theme (see details below). Make sure you see the other photos in their entry on our Other Contest Photos page.

Notes about the Lawrenceburg Entry: Their pictures were not the highest quality, but their content stood out. The first photo on top shows two students  "anxiously concentrating" as they worked through a computer quiz. See the other "anxious concentration" photo they sent in at "more photos page." The photo above on the bottom was shot in a dark room. But notice the layout of the lab... -it was laid out like the bridge of the Star Trek Enterprise. At the "Captain's Table" in the back the three students are each controlling Bongo using several keyboards that are plugged into one computer and working together. This innovative hook-up really caught our judges' attention. Over their head Bongo is being projected on the "main viewing screen" of the Bridge.  See more of their "Bridge" photos here. I asked their lab leader how an Adventist Church was adapting our software (which tends to have a mainline Church point of view). He commented that the occasional differences between traditions in theological emphasis and theological/biblical vocabulary were welcome points of discussion with his students. View other pictures of this lab