In collaboration with a number of schools from the United States (Utah) the Sintermeertencollege was able to contact soldiers stationed in Ryad (Saudi Arabia). Lieutenant Jennifer Fay of the US army replied emails of pupils from Heerlen. All this while the Golf war was on.

Two large US press agencies (UPI and AP) were agitated about the fact that some school from the far Netherlands did actually have a direct connection with the US troops by means of a military line, when they didn’t
The pictures show images of the VARA-program ‘'In het Nieuws'.