In this hands-on project students will develop stronger teamwork skills; create an animated PSA using Alice, a visual programming language; learn to use technology for mass communication and also receive an introduction to computer programming; put in practice the engineering design process, and have the opportunity to contribute to society by raising awareness to an important issue.
This software engineering project is centered on the idea of developing public service announcement movies with the Alice programming language. The proposal has emerged from the application of this project six different times in the context of an introduction to engineering course. This past history proved that the project is effective in teaching first-year college students the fundamentals of object-oriented programming in the context of the engineering design process.