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Early bird pricing for the CSTA Conference has been extended until April 1. Register now to attend the 2017 Annual Conference in Baltimore this July. Click here to find out more about our program, pricing, hotel details and to register.
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The winners of the Cutler-Bell Prize in High School Computing have been announced. The Association for Computing Machinery and Computer Science Teachers Association, presented the prize to three high school students recognized for their talent in computer science.
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For the second year in a row Oracle Academy is providing first-time CSTA Conference Attendees with the opportunity to receive a $1,000 scholarship to help them attend the conference this July in Baltimore. Thirty-five scholarships will be awarded. The application submission period will be open from April 1 - May 1.
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The 13th Google Summer of Code began accepting student applications on March 20, 2017. This highly-competitive, global, online program is designed to engage interested university students with open source software development. In the past 12 years over 12,000 students from 104 countries have been accepted into this program.
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US-based teachers — earn your Cyber Teacher Certificate issued by the Computer Science Teachers Association and delivered by LifeJourney. Includes 8 CEUs. Fully sponsored with no cost to you or your school. Click here to register.
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Zulama and the Computer Science Teachers Association are pleased to offer a Computer Science and Game Design 30-hour professional development program designed for K-12 Teachers. Through this fun and highly interactive, self-paced, online course, you will learn and apply game design principles and programming skills.
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TWC News
Universities across the United States have developed programs to attract more women to STEM careers; however, statistics show those efforts are not translating. Wake Forest University students, faculty and administrators are working on formal research, departmental evaluations and innovative outreach to change the statistics. WFU is one of three universities part of the National Science Foundation-funded alliance. The goal of the alliance is to help historically underrepresented minorities, like women, work toward careers in STEM. According to the National Science Foundation, only 18.2 percent of computer science degrees and only 39.7 percent of degrees in the physical sciences awarded in 2014 went to females.
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The Hechinger Report
On a recent Saturday, a squad of Lego robots fitted with markers limped, hopped and spun dizzily across the table. Some flipped over or trailed broken Lego limbs as they covered butcher paper with ragged squiggles. But the kids who were building and programming these bots weren’t deterred. They made repairs and tweaked their code. A similar persistence was on display at nearby tables where groups of young people created computer games and Web sites.
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New Mexico Political Report
Gov. Susana Martinez vetoed two bills that passed the Legislature with overwhelming support, including legislation that would have allowed high school students to count computer science classes toward math and science credits needed for graduation. The second vetoed bill would have made what appeared to be a minor change to state law dealing with tax increment development districts. Such districts are formed by local governments as a means to finance public infrastructure, like streets and utilities, for new development.
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Arkansas Business Online
Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced the formation of the blue ribbon commission to study how to grow the state's computer science and data analytics sector. The 19-member commission, co-chaired by Acxiom Corp. founder Charles Morgan and Arkansas Economic Development Commission Executive Director Mike Preston, begins meeting later this month. "This esteemed group of Arkansans, through their expertise and guidance, will allow the state to address the opportunities and obstacles we must address to create an environment in which our technology sector can thrive," the governor said in a news release.
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The Seattle Times
Our working class — young and old, rural and urban, Democrat and Republican — is worried about being left behind. With the accelerating pace of technological change, economists warn about job losses due to automation. For Washington state, we see this not only as a challenge, but as an opportunity: the opportunity to prepare for the careers of the future. Two years ago our state led the nation in allocating $2 million to expand access to K-12 computer science. Just more than 10 percent of Washington's students now have access to learn computer science in schools that previously didn't offer any classes in the subject. We’ve proven this strategy works, and it's time to double-down.
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The Des Moines Register
Computer science education is becoming increasingly important. Changes and improvements in technology have created an ever-growing need for computer science engineers, programmers, data analysts and software developers. Computer science jobs are the No. 1 source for new wages in the U.S. and make us two-thirds of all projected new jobs in STEM fields, according to Code.org. Iowa is not producing enough computer science graduates to keep pace with the demand for these jobs within our own state. It's time we started thinking more about how we can prepare our students for these jobs.
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THE Journal
Code.org, the organization behind Hour to Code, will shortly pilot a new middle school/lower high school introductory computer science course that will be free when it's released. For a short time it's also taking applications for free professional development to help teachers prepare.
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HawaiiNewsNow
A free program in Hawaii schools has students in low-income areas doing the same type of work that programmers do in Silicon Valley. Purple Mai'a Foundation says only four public schools in the state offer advanced computer science classes. Its hoping to change that — one school at a time. The program, which combines Hawaiian-based learning with advanced computer coding, is now offered in 10 schools. Instead of calling the neighborhoods they're in as low-income or disadvantaged, the organization refers to them as "high opportunity areas." Among the schools where the program is offered: Kaimaile Academy in Waianae.
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