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A study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project suggests that teenage girls are more frequent bloggers, web page designers, and online social network contributers than their male counterparts.

The number of female students who go on to take college level computer science classes is still remarkably low. A study by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School “suggests that girls’ online practices tend to be about their desire to express themselves”. [Photo and story from The New York Times, February 21, 2008. P. E1]

Remember Alice? Alice is a new computer science curricular tool that teaches computer programming fundamentals through 3D story design. It is testing very well with female students (and its really fun to use!)

This weekend we attended the Massachusetts Agriculture in the Classroom’s annual conference. We met some wonderful educators and passed out free copies of our new lesson plans. We are currently working to expand those lesson plans so that they cover the unique needs of a number of different curricular needs.

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