Bring Your Daughters & Sons to Work Day at Sun

So, this week I had my first opportunity to work with Alice and children. Up until then I had been demonstrating Alice to my fellow co-workers at Sun - all adults. I was excited to have my first opportunity to share this cool technology with young people!

It was a great experience! There were over 100 students (age 8-13) that visited Sun last Thursday in the middle part of the day and about 100 students (age 14-19) in the late afternoon.  I was lucky to have two volunteers helping me - my coworker Sarah Hammond and Sun systems engineer and Alice enthusiast Dan Green.  For the younger children we worked with Alice 2.0 and the students worked together to create some amazingly imaginative stories! In the afternoon, I demonstrated Alice 2.0 to the older students and then Dan showed them Alice 3 Beta and Greenfoot. He then answered a barrage of questions, starting with "Can post something I create using Alice on my MySpace page?"

Here's a cool video that summarizes what the younger students did at Sun last Thursday:

Posted at 05:08PM May 01, 2009 by Jessica in Sun  |  Comments[0]