The idea of computerized car pooling originated in an American Contemporary Issues class at George Washington High School in Denver, Colorado, in the fall of 1973 when a fuel shortage was imminent. The students saw car pooling as a way to take effective action and, with the expertise of a computer math class, devised a program capable of delivering information that matched students living near each other and attending school at the same hour. Although the student population did not respond as eagerly as hoped, the working community of Denver did, when newspaper, radio, and TV exposed them to the program's potiential. Response was great enough to require an Action Office and briefing teams of students to describe the program to the interested firms. City, state, and Federal governments also saw the potential of the program. At George Washington the experience brought self-confidence to those students involved, an interdisciplinary togetherness to the teachers, and a new reputation to the school as a viable institution for education. (JH)