John C. Hoyle

Hoyle's project, "Louisiana's Vanishing Coast: Educating Our Community with the Web," teaches Web design while educating students and the community about Louisiana's coastal erosion and what can be done to stop it. The school is located at the mouth of the Mississippi River, and according to the Army Corps of Engineers, in three decades it could be swallowed by the Gulf of Mexico if coastal erosion isn't slowed. Fifty high school students work on this project as part of a Web design class; in addition, 10 other students take field trips to erosion sites to take pictures. Students learn Web page design, Java script programming, researching techniques, data analysis, photography and writing as well as activism and civic awareness.