Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Online programming competition

Check out the details below on an online programming competition coming up soon!

HSCTF 2: A Programming and Cybersecurity Competition For High School Students HSCTF.com, an online programming competition, will run for the second time from May 17th to May 24th, 2015. HSCTF educates high school students across the country about computer science. Last year HSCTF ran with over 2000 students participating. Competitors in High School Capture the Flag (or HSCTF) will learn computer science skills, and use ingenuity to discover a series of increasingly hard to find "flags" encrypted, hidden, or otherwise stored somewhere difficult to access. While HSCTF includes topics such as computer security, programming, algorithm design, and programming language design. Prizes include several hundred dollars and Facebook swag. You can sign up for email updates at HSCTF.com.

For questions, contact Jacob Edelman, HSCTF Lead Founder and Organizer at jacob@HSCTF.com.



Thursday, May 7, 2015

Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day Friday May 22nd

FYI...

Here is a free opportunity for female students in grades 5 through 12. Girls do not have to be part of a FIRST team in order to attend this event.

On Friday, May 22, Siemens will be hosting its second annual "Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day" at their facility in Buffalo Grove (a northern suburb of Chicago) from 5 PM to 8 PM(arrive by 4:15 PM). More information is available below and on the attached flier.

RSVP by May 15 to jessica.l.guggenheim@siemens.com with the number of girls. Please direct all questions to that e-mail, as well.

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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Teen Appathon coming up!

Hi all,

The Skokie Library and I are hosting a Teen Appathon on Saturday, May 30 from 9-6.

Designed for high school students, the event will be similar to a civic hackathon with a focus on creating or prototyping apps to help the community. We’re looking for programmers, design kids and people with good ideas.

The event is FREE and we’ll have bagels, pizza, snacks as well as awesome prizes (Sphero 2.0, Sparkfun Inventors kit, 2 HP Chromebook 11s!).

Please help spread the word and encourage students to register by May 20. http://skokielibrary.info/events/2079/community-appathon If they don’t have Skokie library cards, they are still welcome to attend. They’ll need to call the contact number on the reg. page rather than complete it online, though.

LMK if you have any questions about the Appathon. I’d love to see some of your students there. And if you’d like to pop in during the day, let me know that, too.

(Matt, I’m passing this along to you in your role as a CSTA member; still hoping my son will take on the NW outreach portion.)


Thanks,