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Adventures in Alice Programming
Durham, NC

This website describes a National Science Foundation project for integrating the programming language Alice into middle schools and high schools in the Durham, NC region. The target schools are the Durham public schools, Vance County, Person County and Chatham County. Other schools in or near Durham are also welcome to participate.

News Articles about our project

An article about this workshop and student camp appeared in Duke News on July 10, 2008. The article also appeared at wral.com and the Durham Herald News.

A blog about the project is on the www.instructify.com site under July 24, 2008 and titled "Adventures in Alice Programming Workshop at Duke University".

Free Alice materials for Use in K-12

Alice materials for use in K-12 include materials from our summer workshop 2008, and are available for free for teachers to use.

• Alice Tutorials/Handouts
• Alice Example Worlds
• Alice Teacher Lesson Plans

For more examples, see the workshop 2008 red links on the right side of this page.

About the Project

This program will train and pay teachers for three weeks in summer 2008 to learn Alice and to develop materials. The first week will be training in Alice. The second week will involve developing Alice curriculum materials with aid from Duke faculty and students. The third week will be additional development of materials and some testing of materials on students attending a summer camp.

Apply to participate in the workshop.

Alice is a 3D virtual worlds programming environment that makes it easy to create animations for either story telling or interactive games. We have used Alice with 4th-6th grade students on up to high school students.

Students can use Alice to integrate computer science with any other discipline. Alice can be used in two ways, at the lower level students can learn enough Alice to build interactive worlds to integrate it into course modules, or at a higher level as a complete course on learning programming. In any current module in which a student creates a poster or presentation, the student now can build an interactive story or game as the presentation.

See other related Duke Alice materials here .

Alice is available for free. For more information see www.alice.org .

Participating Regions

The "Adventures in Alice Programming" project will be held in six regions of the country, possibly different years.

• Durham, North Carolina
• Virginia Beach, Virginia
• San Jose, California
• Denver, Colorado
• Charleston, South Carolina
• Oxford, Mississippi

Supporters

	This project is funded by the National Science Foundation, Grant ESI-0624642. Any opinions, finding and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
	Additional funds have been provided by IBM to boost the number of teachers participating in the Durham region.