The Archdale-Trinity News ran the front page article "ATMS Students Create Ideas In Animation" on May 22. The article talks about a guest speaker, Doctor Dobson, who created the game, Snood, how the students helped create the NCAECT presentation (see earlier blog entries for student videos), and how I will be going to Duke University during the summer to learn more about Alice, the object-oriented free software program for an animation and video game introduction to programming, at the "Adventures in Alice" workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
What was really cool happened after the article went to press. I found out that a representative of DPI, Department of Public Instruction, liked what he saw and will be attending the Duke University workshop to see if there is a way to add a middle school pre-programming class to the NC curriculum.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
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