Computer Science Education Week: December 4-10, 2011
Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek), designated by the U.S. House of Representatives as the week of Grace Murray Hopper’s birthday, recognizes the transformative role of computing and the need to bolster computer science at all educational levels. Please see http://www.csedweek.org for detailed information including background information, resources, suggestions on how to participate, and more.
SIGCSE would like to know what you are doing to celebrate. If you have a short description of your plans, or even better a short description plus a link to a web page/site with information about your CS Ed week activities, send the information directly to daniel.joyce@villanova.edu. We have posted below the information and links that have already been sent to us. Below that list, you will find a link to a page which lists the same information from 2010.
Also be sure to submit your ideas to the CSED site by Making Your Pledge. Once you make the initial pledge (enter your name, email, role, and zip code), you will be taken to a page to post your event or activity. The CSED website will list all these events in a searchable format and tally all the pledges. They will also be sending out a newsletter to all those who pledge between now and CSEdWeek, which will share information about the celebrations.
Here are the responses SIGCSE has received so far. We hope this list encourages even greater participation and provides ideas for everyone to build upon.
- Drexel University - Game Design Workshop, Computer Entertainment Talk, Quizzo and Kinect Game Nights, Movie Screening, and the Random Hacks of Kindness competition all serve to highlight CS Ed week at Drexel.
- The CAITE (Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education) page provides a list of activities around the state of Massachusetts.
- Rowan University - Holding First Lego League: Introduces younger students to real-world engineering challenges by building LEGO-based robots.
- Bradley University - Workshops for high school students and gaming party for high school and Bradley students. Topics covered include programming, robotics, mobile computing, and application of math.
- Villanova University - Information distribution, a movie presentation, student research presentations, and an outreach program.
- Haverford College - Students will display and informally discuss their current projects and theses with other students, faculty and campus people. Refreshments will be available at well.
- Lawrence Technological University - Robofest is an autonomous robotics competition designed to promote and support STEM (Science, Engineering, Technology and Math) and Computer Science for students in grades 5 - 12 and college students.
- Calvin College - Holding second annual "Grace Hopper Birthday Party."
- California State University, San Bernardino - Students presenting projects, internships, and independent work. Faculty presentations on Grace Hopper and Alan Turing
- University of Buffalo - Various activities available on blog
- The College at Brockport, State University of New York - featured a display in the college library with information on the CS degree, employment options and statistics, several CS books, and profiles of several Brockport students who are part of the Computer Science program and work for the IT department.
- Harvey Mudd College - Presenting an overview of computer science using Computing Unplugged exercises.
