alice-teacher Internet Safety Awareness

[Don Slater]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Carnegie Mellon University have announced a national competition in which students will share their knowledge about avoiding dangers associated with Internet use by creating computer animations.

The Alice Project was begun by the late Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon alumnus and professor of computer science who gained international fame three years ago when he delivered a speech that became an Internet sensation and the basis of the best-selling book, "The Last Lecture."

Alice is a free teaching tool that allows novices to use a simple drag-and-drop interface to create 3D computer animations.

The FBI, in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, is expanding their ongoing Safe Online Surfing program (SOS) to include a national competition in which middle and high school students will create 45-second animations using Alice.

For more information, please visit 

	http://www.cmu.edu

and 
	http://www.fbi-sos.org/

Donald Slater
Alice Team
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Office phone: (412) 268-4370

The true object of all human life is play.
--- G. K. Chesterton