Our Official Sponsors and Partners have developed innovative and wide-ranging education projects that have received positive responses from schools and education institutes across the country.

Tesco SchoolNet 2000 is enabling children to create the biggest and most exciting schools' educational website in the world for the millennium. The building of this 'treasure chest' of children's ideas and discoveries about life in the UK and a picture of how they see life in the new millennium began last autumn. This ambitious project will go live to the nation in the Learn zone of the Dome in January 2000.

McDonald's Our Town Story will make it possible for communities across the country to celebrate their special identity at the dawn of the new millennium. Every day during the year 2000 each of our villages, towns and cities will get a chance to put on a show in the Dome telling its own story to the thousands of visitors coming to the Dome.

Marks and Spencer has developed Voices of Promise, part of its wider Children's Promise, a celebration of musical talent in schools to mark the millennium. All children between the ages of 7 and 16 and their schools have been invited to compose a Children's Promise Song for the millennium.

BT FutureTalk is a multi million pound campaign to improve the country's communication skills for the 21st century. BT wants to help stimulate a sea change in the way people value and use communication in all walks of life. The FutureTalk programme will create access to the means of improving skills for all those who wish to take up the challenge.

British Aerospace's National Programme, called Engineering: Your Future, is an ambitious initiative that brings to life the world of engineering, science and technology for every person in Britain. The aim of the initiative will be to celebrate this country's achievements and to enthuse the next generation to become the engineers and scientists of the future.

For further information on our other National Programmes see issue number three or access our website at http://www.dome2000.co.uk