I'm in highschool and honestly I couldn't care less about robotics or programming fairs. We have a robotics team that I'm not interested in, and there are annual programming competitions (not at the highschool though) for those interested in it.
The best thing that the school has ever done for me was providing a copy of Visual Studio.NET for my home computer through Microsoft's MSDN Academic Alliance (http://msdn.microsoft.com/academic/program/highsc hool/default.aspx).
Yes, its Microsoft, but seriously, how many highschool students want to open up vim & a shell and hack away? I've swictched mostly to this since , but I never would have been there if not for VS.NET as a stepping stone.
MSDN AA memberships are cheap for highschools ($300) and let every student install it locally, as well as every lab computer in the school. Hell of a price for that.
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... I thought their page was an error page.
Really, isn't this taking minimalist design to an extreme?
I, for one, will welcome our new asteroid overlord.
(let the flames begin)
I'm in highschool and honestly I couldn't care less about robotics or programming fairs. We have a robotics team that I'm not interested in, and there are annual programming competitions (not at the highschool though) for those interested in it. The best thing that the school has ever done for me was providing a copy of Visual Studio .NET for my home computer through Microsoft's MSDN Academic Alliance (http://msdn.microsoft.com/academic/program/highsc hool/default.aspx).
Yes, its Microsoft, but seriously, how many highschool students want to open up vim & a shell and hack away? I've swictched mostly to this since , but I never would have been there if not for VS.NET as a stepping stone.
MSDN AA memberships are cheap for highschools ($300) and let every student install it locally, as well as every lab computer in the school. Hell of a price for that.