Science fair projects are in progress right now and parents along with their kids are panicing for ideas and topics. But not one young gentlemen, he has decided to do his science fair project on text-messaging and the effects it has on driving. We found some great articles through the library's databases. We found several news articles, but one in particular was very scary.
In a 2009 article entitled, "Teens Under the Influence of Cellphones...and Texting", in USA Today, Nanci Hellmich reported that "About half of teens ages 16 and 17 who have cellphones say they have talked on the phone while driving, and about a third of those teens have texted while behind the wheel". More scary statistics were found and became a real eye opener to the adults in the library that day as we all huddled around the computer to find out more on the subject of texting and driving.
Kids today are growing up with this contreversy and hopefully by the time they are adults the problem with texting and driving will be resolved. In any case, children are receiving cell phones at earlier ages every year and I believe there will continue to be more problems on the topic of texting. But for now we can at least start with tackling the texting and driving just like the young gentlemen decided to do by choosing a very relevant topic for his science fair project
USA Today, Nov 17, 2009 p11D "Teens under the influence of cellphones ... and texting". LIFE Hellmich, Nanci.
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