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Creativity is more important. It is critical that we engage students at an early age to be creative and to solve problems.

CS give students ownership and the ability to be creative. The computing languages are a means to an end.

One of the many challenges is to get the students involved into to the concepts of programming without them really knowing. Using programs such as Alice and robotics such as MindSpring from Lego to pull the students in.

We dicussed the difference of male and female and what engages them. One discussion was to use a social setting rather than a gaming setting to teach programming concepts.

We also discussed relating daily life of the students to programming in as much as everything we do involve decisions. Start with problems and lock at how we solve these problems using the available tools.

Possible Action Plan - Develop resourses (links, repository, etc.) within SIGCT for teachers to find ideas to help them to engage students at all levels.