Five neon glow sticks are hidden throughout this page. Each glow stick has a word that is part of a code to unlock access to a secret location. You can find the glowsticks by rolling your cursor over the entire page.

The words are top secret. Don't tell anyone! Record each word in a secret hiding place until you are ready to decode the location. Read Secret Message #2 to learn how to combine the 5 words and decode the location’s address.

When combined in the right order, the FIRST LETTER of each of the 5 secret glow stick words will form part of a URL, or Uniform Resource Locator. (Every Web page has a URL, a series of characters that begins with http:// or www. The URL is the Internet address. When you know the URL, you can visit that Web page by typing the URL in the location box in the toolbar.)

Use this formula to form the secret Web address, or URL:

www.ncwiseowl.org/kscope/studenthut/_ _ _ _ _.html

Notice the 5 little spaces in the formula that come before html. The FIRST LETTER of each glow stick word (5 letters) will need to be combined in the right order to complete the formula above and gain access to the secret location. When you have all 5 letters, you will type the URL in your browser's location box, trying different combinations of the 5 letters until you hit the combination that opens the secret location. You must type everything EXACTLY as shown, starting with the www and ending with html. If you make just one typing mistake, you will not gain access. For example, if the 5 secret letters were m, l, y, u, and o, the URL could be:

www.ncwiseowl/kscope/techknowpark/secret/yuolm.html
OR
www.ncwiseowl/kscope/techknowpark/secret/umloy.html

Important Tips for Typing the Secret URL:

• Don't leave any spaces between the letters or punctuation.
• Don't leave out any punctuation.
• Type all of the address in lowercase.
• Learn more about URLs!

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