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Tim Bell (who helped make this) is a great guy, he spends a lot of time getting kids interested in Computer Science, with CS Unplugged [0], as well as teaching teachers how to teach computer science to high school kids.

I'd say it's in a large part due to him that Python is becoming the de facto standard for high school programming in New Zealand.

He's also a bloody good lecturer, he teaches the intro to algorithms at Canterbury, and does heaps of physical demonstrations of how algorithms work, like using a set of scales for sorting algorithms.

[0] http://csunplugged.org/