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CSTA
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.
CSTA
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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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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CSTA
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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Edutopia
As defined by Jeannette Wing, computational thinking is "a way of solving problems, designing systems and understanding human behavior by drawing on the concepts of computer science." To the students at my school, it's an approach to tackling challenging questions and ambiguous puzzles. We explicitly integrate computational thinking into all of our classes, allowing students to draw parallels between what they're learning and how they're approaching problems across all disciplines.
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The Columbian
Clark County school districts are cracking the code of curriculum preparing students for the modern workforce. Area districts are increasingly adding computer science courses for their students or expanding already existing offerings, responding to the increased need for programmers and developers in Washington and across the country. Code.org, a national non-profit dedicated to expanding computer science programs, estimates that there are 22,882 open computing jobs in Washington but only 1,212 computer science graduates. The organization estimates those open jobs represent about $2.4 billion in annual salary.
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eSchool News
Engaging young children in STEM is critical for creating a lifelong love of learning and for developing critical thinking skills which will serve them well across all academic disciplines and prepare them for the 21st Century workforce. The recently released report, STEM Starts Early: Grounding Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education in Early Childhood by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and New America is a summary of current research and makes critical recommendations for both STEM communication to parents and future research in early childhood STEM.
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WKSU News
Six states have adopted computer science standards for schools. A pair of suburban Columbus Republican lawmakers want Ohio to be next, but they don't want schools to be mandated to use them. The bill from Reps. Rick Carfagna and Mike Duffey would order the state school board to work with teachers, businesses and technology professionals to develop and adopt computer science standards by July 2018, but Carfagna says they won't be requirements.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Berkmar High School senior Iman Alston encountered a problem. The 17-year-old Gwinnett County student, bright smile and braces, created an image on a computer of a girl selling lemonade, but she couldn't move a bottle with the drink from the floor to the stand. Alston changed some code on the computer and, soon, the bottle moved from the floor. "I got it up there," she said. "I've just got to get it on the table." Alston is one of 19 girls in Leah dee Kilgore's Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles classes. Last school year, there were no girls in a similar class Kilgore taught.
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By: Cait Harrison (commentary)
 A new presidential era means more changes are in store for education. President Donald Trump recently signed bills rolling back two regulations measuring school accountability and teacher training under the Every Student Succeeds Act. The school accountability measure overwhelmingly passed in the Republican-controlled House, but narrowly made it out of the Senate with a 50-49 vote — despite opposition from business, labor and civil rights groups, as well as Democrats.
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