Draw a computer scientist

Each fall in the first class of the introductory computer science course I do an opening exercise with the incoming freshmen students. I give out a short survey asking for some general demographic information about them - gender, age, nationality, and prior computer experience. Then I ask them to do two things that have produced some interesting results. First, they are asked to answer the question, "what is computer science?" The majority of the students answer the question with a reference to programming. Many say they really don't know and hope they will find out in the class. Others mention the study of hardware and software. A few even use the word algorithm. These results clearly indicate that our profession is not doing a good job communicating the diversity and complexity of our field to the general public and to high school students in particular.