Using Computers to Create Interest

Link: http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20060222/Feature1.asp

This article were written to help promote interest in a career field of computer science. According to the article the number of people entering this field has been reduce by 50% and less than 20% are women. Using an interactive computer program called Alice, a student can quickly create an animated movie in which characters move about and interact in an imagined 3D world. Along the way, the student learns how to write a simple computer program. This program will hopefully create interest in the field of computer programming in young students and one day increase the number of young people entering the field.