Students at Parsley Elementary are challenged each month to find one of the three Parsley Patriot kids hidden somewhere on one of the pages within our web site (which means the URL will start with "http://www.nhcs.net/parsley/"). You'll know when you find either Liberty, Justice, or Freedom because it will say "You found me!"

This monthly contest started January 1, 2004 and was designed to:

1. Increase student and parent/guardian familiarity with our web site and the many resources it offers.
2. Improve students' web site search skills looking for specific information.
3. Familiarize the visitor with technology skills (copying and pasting) and vocabulary such as 'URL'.
4. Promote the use of e-mail and letter writing skills. Each entry will receive a return e-mail from the webmaster letting the sender know their entry was received.

In order for an entry to count, all the entries must follow these rules:

1. Only students at Parsley are eligible to enter. This means the time the email is sent should be during the time a student would be home - either early before school, after school, or on the weekend and holidays. Emails sent when a child is at school may not be eligible for entry.
2. We encourage parents/guardians to "surf" the web with their child(ren). They may assist with finding the hidden Patriot, but the student must participate in finding the Patriot and sending the e-mail.
3. One entry per person, per e-mail, per month. Families with more than one Parsley student must send a different e-mail for each student.
4. The entire URL of the page the Patriot is located on must be pasted in the e-mail to Parsley - only exact URLs count. This is a very important rule because it lets us know that you have visited the page the Patriot is hidden on and found him or her for yourself. Incomplete URLs will not count. You cannot just type the name of the page in the e-mail. If you need help on how to copy and paste a URL, see the picture directions below.
5. Type the name of the Patriot kid you found in the e-mail. For example, "I found Liberty."
6. The student's name and teacher's name must also be included in the e-mail.
7. Be sure to include a subject in your e-mail such as "I found the Patriot" or "I found Liberty" (or Justice or Freedom).
8. If you would like to send a note to Mrs. Rizzo, you can. She loves to get e-mail and will write back to every student to let them know we received their entry.
9. Because this is a contest and we want it to be fair for everyone, students and staff are discouraged from telling others where to find the hidden Patriot kid. You'll spoil the fun if you do!
10. Each student must submit his/her own entry. No student may submit an entry for another student. Doing so will result in the deletion of all student entries involved and will disqualify the submitting student from entering in future contests.
11. Entries will be received until 3:30PM on the last day of the month.  One winner will be drawn from all correctly submitted entries.  The winning student will be announced on the first school day after the last day of the month and will win a goodie bag with misc. prizes.

 What is a URL?

URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator and it is the address of the web page and is located below the buttons on your browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc.).
URLs generally start with "http://" and frequently they are followed with "www." All of the URLs for the Parsley web pages start with "http://www.nhcs.net/parsley/......"

How to COPY and PASTE a URL:

If the URL isn't already selected (highlighted) usually clicking on it once will select it.

On a Windows computer, you have three ways to copy the URL. With the URL selected use your mouse to choose Copy from Edit on the menu bar. use the keyboard shortcut by pressing the Control (Ctrl) and the C key. right click on the mouse and choose Copy from the menu that pops up. On a Macintosh computer: use your mouse to choose Copy from Edit on the menu bar. use the keyboard shortcut by pressing the Command (Apple) and the C key.

Once an e-mail to Parsley is open, click in the body of the e-mail and Paste the URL. You can either use the mouse (Edit>Paste) from the menu bar or, if on a Windows computer, right click and select the Paste option) or use the keyboard shortcut of Ctrl + V (or Command + V if on a Macintosh). Remember, when done correctly, the URL for the page a Patriot kid is hidden on will always start with "http://www.nhcs.net/parsley/".

Having Problems?????? 1. Hotmail email may be blocked - The New Hanover County Schools email server may block emails sent from a hotmail email account.  So, if you send your contest entry from a hotmail account, we may not get it.  Yahoo, and other sources, offer free email accounts that you can sign up for and they are not blocked.  Student may also use their Gaggle.net email accounts from which to send their contest entries. Did you know........ When using keyboard short cuts, Control (or Command) + C makes sense for Copy, but why do we use Control + V for Paste? Because Control + P is for Print! Just think of V for Velcro - you use that command to make it stick!

How Liberty, Justice, and Freedom Got Their Names The Patriot Kids are our own creation drawn by Mrs. Rizzo using Kid Pix and animated in Adobe Photo Deluxe. In 2003, we had a contest to name the three Patriot Kids and Jake submitted the winning entry. Mr. Zentmeyer (principal) announced the names and presented a certificate to Jake during 'Parsley Today'. Learn more about the Patriot Kids.