Virtual Earth – See your school, playground and home town in 3D. Be sure to click on the word “3D” on the map to install the 3D viewer into your browser.

WorldWide Telescope – Fly around the universe visiting stars, planets, nebula, our sun, the Martian surface and the moon. Listen to star tours by WALL-E and the Ring Nebula given by a 6 year old boy (Look for Tour – Ring Nebula in the menus).

MSDN Kid’s Corner – C# for Sharp Kids and VB for Very Bright Kids online courses as well as many great PPTs and links for learning to program Silverlight – Show some fun demo games

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio – Program and run your own robots in a 3D virtual environment. Compete in exciting virtual environments at www.RoboChamps.com. If you own a robot like the Lego Mindstorm NXT download and test your robots programming for real.

Microsoft Popfly – Try out this fun and easy to use website for creating games and web mashups for free.

SmallBasic – Bring the "fun" back to programming. SmallBasic provides a small and easy to learn programming language in a friendly and inviting development environment. Small Basic makes programming a breeze. Ideal for kids and adults alike, Small Basic helps beginners take the first step into the wonderful world of programming.

Hunt the Wumpus
Hunt The Wumpus is a high school outreach project sponsored by Microsoft. Top students in AP and IB CS classes work with Microsoft mentors to implement Hunt the Wumpus games. The purpose of the program is to increase the quality, quantity and diversity of high school students choosing computer science as their major course of collegiate study. As you can see from the screenshots at the bottom of this email, we have a lot of fun with it as well – all of the implementations pictured below are 100% student-written!

AutoCollage – Create beautiful collages of your favorite pictures with just a few clicks of the mouse.

PhotoSynth – Stitch your overlapping, panoramic digital photos together automatically to create exciting 3D worlds you can browse.

Image Composite Editor (ICE) by MS Research

Surface - Just show videos off the website

TabletPC and Applications for Education – If you own a TabletPC download and tryout fun free powertoys like art tool, physics illustrator, handwriting practice, equation writer and music composition.

Fun Kid’s Brain Teasers – See my blog for neat little activities to engage the kids in a problem solving exercise, give out prizes for the first one who solves it

Boku – Boku is a new visual programming language for creating interactive 3D worlds, games, and stories. It is accessible to children and fun for adults and is primarily aimed at providing an accessible and enjoyable programming experience. When it releases publicly it will run on XBOX 360 and PC.

Math

Microsoft Research’s Songsmith

A Robot in Every Home Scientific American article by Bill Gates (downloadabled/purchase-able version)

Why Math Doesn’t Suck book by Danica McKellar, childhood actress from the Wonder Years TV show (she’s got a really cool story as well for girls interested in math)