When the Louisville Free Public Library
started a contest among kids to design computer programs,
one child came out on top. Twelve-year-old Marc Tasman won
the contest of the Bon Air branch, but as
32 Alive's Caroline Seay reports
computers aren't his only interest.
Not many kids ask to go to summer
school
but twelve-year-old Marc Tasman signed
up for an engineering class on his own.
Marc is one of thirty three students who
are taking a summer class called
Increase. The program is funded by private
industry to get minority students
interested in engineering.
Once Marc leaves summer school he heads home. And most days he spends 2-5 hours at
the computer.
Marc is fascinated by the computer.
He started designing programs when he
was eleven. Now he has already written forty
original programs. "It might be tough for
somebody else, well, and
it's tough for me but
I usually think 'em out before I start to write 'em and then
they're not that tough."
"It's like
learning um... some
exotic language that you have no idea about."
Marc taught himself to type and hopes to
start with high-resolution graphics soon.
"I know there's other people
like me, but
i don't know who they are, and I don't know what they can do, or anything."
"I'm...I just know I'm here."
Caroline Seay, 32 Alive News.
