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What Interests High-School Students?
Jim Willis asks: "Our IT Division happens to be populated with some civic-minded people who are interested in making time available for local high-school students interested in science and technology. Question is, we're not sure the best way to do it. We're mulling around the idea of sponsoring a robotics competition or some sort of programming fair/competition. Unfortunately, we've been out of high-school long enough to not know what excites students about technology. Slashdot readers (esp. those of you in high-school): Where should we focus our attention and donate/volunteer our time?"
HighSchool students love Pr0n.
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why teach them about what they have? what people should be teaching is general concepts about a computer. on Mac, Windows and Linux and even more exotic GUI driven environments, all the tools act in certain core ways that when taught to the students will allow them to go from one computer to another knowing that it is similar and they can figure it out.
the reason people do not know how to use computers well is because they think that if they do not know how to use a specific environment or program then they cannot use it at all.
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