The Millennium Generation: Are they ready for the Ultra-Low Power challenge?

Millennials are a generation of smart young people currently in development at universities and colleges, and entering the workforce.They have several characteristics that could potentially make them the most productive generation ever.On the other hand the concepts of green, sustainability and energy awareness are part of their vocabulary and most of their jobs will have some relation with these terms.This paper relates an attempt to tailor a microcomputers course to be attractive to this generation of students.What we have found is that the traditional teaching formulas have to be adapted and social networking tools adopted to make them appealing to people that do not know a world without internet, wireless communications and social networking.