Hello all, I'm a high school computer science teacher and I'm looking for other high school teachers that might be teaching XNA to their students.

You can e-mail me at brian.scarbeau@gmail.com

Thanks.

That will be a nice addition to education ^^

Could you come teach at my school?

Please?

I would love to have that. The closses thing my school hs to programing is website stuff but its with Dreamweather I think *sob*

You were luky, of had been teached with dreamweber. When I was at highschool (preparatoria in mexico) ,two years ago, the most advanced thing that they teach us was EXEL!!! can you beleve it. and a friend that is studing for computer sience engenier the most advanced thing at their study schedule in programming is VB 6.0, again, can you beleve it.

hey Brian ... nice to see you 'round these parts.  yeah, all you teachers out there, seriously, get in contact with him ... he's a great asset to the local dev community :-)

Thanks Joel. I'll be asking for you to come speak to my class soon. I finally have my syllabus that I'll be using with my students when I start teaching C# and XNA with my students. It will be interesting to see what they can do when they finish the class.
3dbuzz.com is currently offering an online XNA course that I would strongly recommend.
Any teacher can e-mail me for the syllabus to see what I'll be doing in my class .
Brian

All my teachers don't share the same passion i have for game making. So i desided to make my own club. It starts in 2 days, i'm scared and excited.

Were starting of with 1Downloads 2Tutorials 3When its September 25th/ 07 we need to analyze Halo 3. For game reference of course.;)

i hope fellow members will help.

Since Brian posted this I have come across a good number of high school teachers who are using XNA at some level in their programming courses. I've put most of them in touch with Brian BTW because he is leading edge. I'm always looking for more though. You can email me at alfred.thompson (at) microsoft.com

Wow I wish they would have taught that stuff at my HS. AutoCAD was the only extra they really taught at the HS I went to, which was a great class considering I learned a lot of cheap tricks to make models more efficient on CPU/GPU because of how crappy the PCs were in that school. Only programming related class was at a tech center the HS was a part of and that was HTML/JavaScript but the teacher barely knew what he was doing so was more observing than learning.

Damn that would be awesome.
I can't believe we don't have this sort of education in Sweden..

You can check out my blog to see some of the games that my students created this semester.

I'll repeat the common theme around here: Why didn't they teach stuff like this at my high school?

Even though I did two senior computing subjects, and "learned" to use everything from Frontpage to Pro-desktop to Access, I consider myself entirely self-taught. The programs I consider truly worthwhile (Flash, 3DS Max, Visual Studio, etc.) were barely touched upon.

I only found XNA recently by sheer blind stumbling-around-running-into-walls luck, but I'm not going to waste the opportunity.