An excellent introduction to anyone who is interested in learning what "coding" is.
http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/
Friday, June 26, 2015
Friday, June 19, 2015
$10k Award for High School Computing
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New $10,000 Award for CS Students: ACM/CSTA Cutler-Bell Prize in
High School Computing
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Dear CSTA Community,
CSTA is pleased to announce a new award aimed at recognizing talented high school students in computer science. The ACM/CSTA Cutler-Bell Prize in High School Computing seeks to promote and encourage the field of computer science, as well as to empower young and aspiring learners to pursue computing challenges outside of the traditional classroom environment. Four winners will be selected annually and each will be awarded a $10,000 prize and cost of travel to the annual ACM/CSTA Cutler-Bell Prize in High School Computing Reception where students will demonstrate their programs and discuss their work. The prizes will be funded by a $1 million endowment established by David Cutler and Gordon Bell. Eligible applicants for the award will include graduating high school seniors residing and attending school in the US. Challenges for the award will focus on developing an artifact that engages modern computing technology and computer science. Judges will look for submissions that demonstrate ingenuity, complexity, relevancy, originality, and a desire to further computer science as a discipline. The application period for the inaugural award is scheduled to open August 1, 2015 and close January 1, 2016. The inaugural awards will be announced in February 2016. Please share this exciting announcement with your fellow teachers and your students, and Good Luck!
Questions regarding this
email? Contact customerservice@csta-hq.org
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Sunday, May 31, 2015
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.
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.
Monday, May 11, 2015
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.
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,
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