The age old question of "how do we get more students interested in STEM (science tech engineering math) has come up one too many times.  It's time for me to write what I know (so here you go!):     A couple programs Microsoft created to help students get interested in technology: http://s2b.experience.com/alumnus/channel?channel_id=microsoft_s2b&page_id=home http://www.microsoft.com/about/diversity/programs/digigirlz.mspx   Some ideas on leveraging technology

While, none of these are new to the scene, there are technologies which everyone I've talked to loves - so I figured I'd post em' all in the same place :) Microsoft Robotics Studio (Level = know what a robot is): Write some code to run a robot - except you don't really need to write code. Robotics Studio uses a "visual programming" language which is essentially a set of blocks you can attach to make a program (think duplos for non-coders). Then you can download your code onto a wide variety of robots