They do! (Score 1)

I've been attending baldwin wallace college for a number of years (5, i'm an old timer) and for the past three our chapter of ACM (www.acm.org) has been sponsoring a programming contest for high school kids. There has been a great turnout every year so far. We see students programming c++, java, and vb.net mostly. Actually they are mostly java programmers. So the answer is yes, kids are programming. Some of the kids can whip out a program in a more elegant way than the seniors majoring in computer science. Not sure if this has been posted yet, but it's a note I thought I should post.