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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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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. 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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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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Thanks to Infosys Foundation, NSF, NCWIT and CSTA, CSPdWeek is returning this July 17-21. This distinctive cross-curricular event offers high-quality professional development for teachers planning to teach any of the following: AP CS Principles; AP CS A (Java); Exploring Computer Science; and Bootstrap.
Information and application materials are available here.
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The post and Courier
Want a high school diploma? You might need to learn a little bit of JavaScript. All South Carolina public schools could require computer-science training for graduation starting as soon as 2019. A bill advancing out of the state House of Representatives would create new standards for computer science education in grades 9-12, set up summer training for new teachers in the field and require that every high school in the state offer at least one computer science course.
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Deseret News
Remember the children's song and story "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly?" Odds are kindergartners at Parley's Park Elementary School have it committed to memory after the story became the launching point for a technology lesson in their classroom Thursday. No, they didn't resolve the age-old question of "why she swallowed the fly," but tech coach/coding instructor Tracy Fike used the story to guide the young students through a lesson on sequencing, a fundamental skill of computer coding.
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Slate (commentary)
Joe Gervais, a contributor for Slate, writes: "When I was 14, I began experimenting with something fascinating, something my teachers never mentioned but that I knew was off limits: creating malware. The code worked beautifully. It was designed and written from scratch in assembly language, a level just barely above the 1's and 0's of the computer's native tongue. After I delivered it to the intended target, it hid in the operating system and waited for the correct trigger conditions, at which time it would overwrite the volume table of contents and destroy the disk's ability to retrieve any of its stored data. It executed exactly as intended."
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THE Journal
All children are born scientists. Just watch very young children plan and plant a community garden, discussing how much watering it needs, what roots are for and how a plant's growth shifts with the seasons. Yet the public perception appears to be that only some children have scientific inclinations, based in many cases on their family cultures. According to a new research project, children who engage in scientific activities at an early age (between birth and age 8) develop positive attitudes toward science, build up their STEM "vocabularies" and do better at problem solving, meeting challenges and acquiring new skills.
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KEYE-TV
It can be tough to get middle schoolers to pay attention in class, especially when the subject matter is coding languages. But students in the Hello World after-school program are listening to every word, because their goal is to program an autonomous car. "The earlier on you start, for girls especially, the more you've demystified [and think] coding is not this big outside world," said instructor Joyce Rigelo, who is also one of the co-founders of AutoAuto, the company that makes the cars. And even though it sounds tough, the students love to learn.
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Education Week
Amid a steady drumbeat of reports on cyber-espionage and election-related hackings, lawmakers are wrestling with questions of how to best protect the country from digital threats and address a severe shortage of skilled cybersecurity workers. That means new attention for nascent efforts to support cybersecurity education, including in K-12 schools. The National Governors Association, eight different federal agencies, and a national commission established by President Barack Obama are among those supporting a wide assortment of cybersecurity-related education and workforce-development initiatives.
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U.S. News & World Report
"We need all hands on deck right now." This statement, made by a girl in Microsoft's #MakeWhatsNext campaign, refers to how women will be included in the future processes of finding a cure for breast cancer, mitigating climate change and working toward a self-sustaining environment. The campaign, unveiled March 7 to coincide with International Women's Day, focuses on ambitions of girls in science, technology, engineering and math fields. One of the girls featured in the campaign ad says, "There's always going to be someone that says, like, 'No, you can't do it.' I think I can!"
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eSchool News
No technology can replace high-quality teachers. But what happens when high-quality STEM teachers become hard to find, and what happens when STEM teacher applicant pools dry up? And how can the U.S. extend critical STEM learning opportunities to its youngest students? Students today need more STEM learning opportunities inside classrooms and outside of school. Those opportunities can occur across content areas. But there are barriers to this learning, including teacher recruitment and training, the way STEM learning is structured in some schools, and existing policies.
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Fast Company (commentary)
President Donald Trump's proposed budget increases one of the nation's largest expenditures, the military, while cutting funding to many smaller programs such as the National Endowment for the Arts, have little impact on overall government spending. The 2016 budget for the NEA was $148 million. By comparison, the proposed budget increase (not total spending) for the military in the president's budget is $54 billion.
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