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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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,

The AI Revolution

Courtesy of Aaron Spak - interesting reads on recent impacts of AI.

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html

and 

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html

- Svetty

Google's Security "Princess"

Thanks to Mrs. Bassler for passing this one on!

A fascinating look into a woman who leads a group of hired hackers who work for Google. Considering how many companies have been targeted (successfully) recently by hackers, this is a critical field of study.  Yet another example of one of the cool things you could do in the industry.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-hacker-security-princess-parisa-tabriz-female-star-tech-industry/

- Svetty

Programming Languages <---> Lord of the Rings

Credit to Seth Steinberg for coming across this:

The Most Popular Programming Languages of 2014

Check out this link for an update on which programming languages rank the highest by usage in 2014.

http://news.kynosarges.org/2015/04/05/programming-languages-in-2014/

- Svetty

CLC Stem Series in CS - April 9th

Check out the link below for a great opportunity to hear from an awesome speaker on what computer science means for you in your future -

http://us3.campaign-archive1.com/?u=d5de1ac6bc60f493be8c63cbc&id=5e8935a605&e=51eb80b766

- Svetty