PLAYING TO LEARN!

How do the key ingredients of social interaction
and computer code combine to create a
successful programming learning environment?

The RAPUNSEL project team is researching
and building a software environment called
"PEEPS" to teach programming concepts to kids.
Someday, it will be a multiuser game.
For now, we are tackling small interactive modules.
We hope our approach will attract as many
girls to programming as it will boys,
and this might help out with the shortage
of women in computer-related fields.

Enjoy our growing site, and please play with our prototoypes!

~mary, ken, jan, and the RAPUNSEL team

 


This project is funded under grant HRD-0332898 from the Gender in Science and Engineering Program (GSE) of the the National Science Foundation.