On Tuesday, February 3, Governor Tom Ridge gave his annual budget speech to the Pennsylvania General Assembly. This year was a little different. Since the Governor wanted to focus his speech on educational funding and specifically his "Link to Learn" program, he had satellite hook-ups to two remote locations - schools which had benefited from State funding. One of these schools was Sulzberger Middle School.

Eighth-grade teacher, Glenn Campbell, and two students from the school, Keith Sisco and Oneil Hall, talked for three minutes about the Mill Creek Project, the SMS/PENN Summer Program, and their work with HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). The kids were also interviewed by three area news stations. Oneil and Keith hope to use their HTML skills to get jobs next year as interns at the summer program, posting the events of the day up on the West Philadelphia Landscape Project Website.

In the summer of 1997, Sulzberger students in the SMS/ PENN Summer Program worked with Sam Spirn, a high school junior at the Germantown Friends School who is also the Webmaster of the West Philadelphia Landscape Project Website. The goal of the summer was for them to learn HTML, so that they could document the events of the Summer Program on the Web. During the month of January, students from Mr. Campbell's 8th grade class at Sulzberger, including Keith and Oneil, continued work with Sam. He taught six students from Mr. Campbell's class how to write HTML so that this spring they would be able to post work done in Professor Anne Whiston Spirn's Power of Place course.

The team consisted of three Sulzberger students from Daisy Century's science class, a licensed civil engineer and Martin Knox, a Penn landscape architecture student. They designed future cities on a computer using Maxis' SimCity Classic© software and used a blueprint to build a model of a section of the created city.

Since the program began in 1992, the purpose of the competition has been to introduce students to engineering through practical applications of math and science and work with engineers.