Students win Competition by Teaching Koala Bear Care

Names: Caleb Burkhardt and Miles Zakos.

School: Fourth graders at .

Accomplishment: Won in the “Multimedia” category of the Technology Fair at Lincoln, and went on to compete in the May 4 Technology Fair of the Intermediate Unit 21 in Schnecksville.

Key to Awesomeness: Caleb and Miles created a multimedia presentation about Australian animals. They used a PowerPoint presentation, adding sound, and also filmed a video entitled “How to save the Koala,” dressing up Caleb as the Koala bear. At the end of the presentation, they boys included links to conservation Web sites for people to check into.

“The project took a long time,” said Caleb. “But the videotaping was the hardest,” added Miles.

In his free time, Caleb “loves to invent wacky things,” play card games, run with the Lehigh Valley Road Runners and play soccer in the Lower Macungie Youth Association.

Miles enjoys reading, playing the piano, playing with his younger brother and playing soccer in the Lower Macungie Youth Association.