career day presentation

[Jeremy]

I'm scheduled to speak to the fourth grade classes at my daughters'
school this Friday. I'm allowed to bring a powerpoint slide show but
not much else in way of materials. I'm allotted 20 minutes of time. I
have a general outline of how I'm going to handle the presentation but
I thought I'd check in here (prompted by Joshua's post this week,
really) and ask for suggestions of things I need to make sure I
mention or areas that I should avoid.

Thanks,
Jeremy

[Jeremy]

Just realized that one of my rewrites removed the topic. Doh! Anyway, I'll be trying to convince these young minds that computer programming is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

[Matt Murphy]

In my opinion, programming is a lot like playing with Legos.  I feel like I get to play with Legos all day, but not just the normal blocks, really awesome ones.