Carol Knauff - Carol C. Knauff is a retired Vice President from AT&T where she spent 29 years leading organizations to market place and financial success. She represented AT&T in a number of national organizations. These were: U.S.O., Council for Better Business Bureaus, and National Council of LaRaza. She is an elected member of The Pennsylvania State University Alumni Council, and was named Outstanding Engineering Alumni in 1995 and Alumni Fellow in 1998 by Penn State. She also received the Pinnacle Award in 2002 from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Carol received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State in 1969, a Masters in Engineering Management from the University of Missouri-Rolla and an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson. She currently resides in Mendham, NJ with her husband Jeff and their two daughters, Kathleen, 23 and Christine, 18. Carol is active in her community and volunteers many hours to the high school.
Melinda and Danielle work at Tech4Learning, Inc., a company that focuses on developing tools educators need to be successful with technology in their classrooms. Tech4Learning believes in a vision of education where students are actively and creatively engaged in the learning process, and graduate prepared to use the skills and knowledge they have acquired. Melinda is director of professional development and Danielle is integration specialist.
Anne Lambert. - "Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." For Anne Lambert, these words of poet Ryunosuke Satoro ring true. As a teacher in California for over two decades, she enabled her high-school students to connect with their peers through international experiences in Tijuana, Mexico, a short bus ride fifteen miles south. In the virtual world, she has guided students, ages five to twenty, in interactive web projects with students in at least thirty countries. She has taught classes in information literacy and information technology, as well as courses in AVID and AP in both traditional classrooms and online. Anne has a BA from Pomona College in Claremont, California and master's degrees in language, education, and information science.
JoAnn Patrick-Ezzell is Chairman of the Give Something Back International Foundation, the sponsor of the Global Virtual Classroom Program. She also serves as President & CEO of Synergistic Systems, a global management consulting firm. She has over 30 years of business experience in the telecommunications industry and served as President & CEO, ATT Asia/Pacific in Hong Kong. JoAnn graduated from Bucknell University in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. A Sloan Fellow, she received a master’s degree from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 1988. She and her husband, Andy Ezzell reside in Sarasota, Florida.
Lena W. Chung serves as CEO of Environmental Technologies Foundation Limited, a charitable foundation focusing on environmental issues in Hong Kong. An experienced global executive, Lena has over 30 years experience in the telecommunications industry. She was Managing Director of AT&T's wholesale VOIP service, which provides voice over Internet capabilities for carriers, ITSPs and next generation telcos. She managed the overcall business operations of the AT&T Global Clearinghouse and the Enterprise Nodes in Europe and South America. Lena is a pioneer in applications over IP, leading AT&T's foray into this space with the launch of innovative IP and VOIP services including the AT&T Global Clearinghouse in 1998. She has extensive experience in sales, marketing, business development and operations and held key positions in sales, product management and marketing divisions before her retirement from AT&T. Lena holds a BS and MBA from Columbia University and currently resides and works in Hong Kong.
Judges
Katy Hutchinson - Katy Hutchinson is a life-long technology lover and a former Global Virtual Classroom student winner (Castles, Parcels, and Metatarsals-1999). She teaches elementary school Spanish in the a school in Boston called