Great to hear! The students were a blast to work with and took on quite a massive project for their first encounter with the Arduino. (i.e. they programmed the Arduino to read multiple joysitcks (both analog and digital) that fed serial data back and forth to a PC running Flash. A second group programmed Flash using Actionscript 3 to control 3 large HD screens to simulate an ocean background.
Phew... and that's not all. They also had to deal with large animated sea creatures that would float around the screen, and move the background as if a submarine was turning. In essence, creating a 30000 px wide loop of background. Due to the size constraints of Flash, this required 3 instances of Flash communicating separately to the serial data of the joysticks.
Needless to say, a year's course was not enough time to finish the project, but they made excellent progress. I hope to continue the project this year and put up a small plaque for their efforts.
-Eric