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CSTA
Stanford University is hosting a professional development experience for Math and Science teachers that showcases a new way to teach logic. Register now for this summer opportunity!
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CSTA
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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TECH CORPS
TECH CORPS is gearing up for a summer of fun with technology! Almost 2,000 students will build robots, design video games, create mobile apps and much more across four states. Summer is coming fast, but don't worry… We still have applications open for both our sponsored experiences, offered at no cost to students, and our open enrollment programs, available at a low cost. We are offering summer experiences for rising third-fifth, sixth-eighth, and nineth-12th grade students.
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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.
Education Week
Experience programming robots can make young girls more interested in technology and more confident in their abilities in related subjects, a study published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology found. But programming experience didn't diminish girls' gendered stereotypes about STEM ability. The 1st graders in the study, girls and boys alike, thought that boys were better at programming and robots. This is the first study to find that children as young as age 6 have stereotypes about programming and robotics ability, wrote the researchers.
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A digital textbook to teach computer programming with a unique story-based game. It covers introductory Python programming, and is suitable for beginners. The learner unlocks story chapters by answering a programming question at the end of each chapter. The textbook is designed for accessibility so it is suitable for learners with blindness, visual impairments and autism.
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Austin American-Statesman
The Texas Senate passed a bill designed to make it easier for more high school students to enroll in computer science classes. The legislation, House Bill 728, would have Texas public schools count computer science classes toward advanced math and science requirements, encouraging more participation in such courses and giving students more flexibility to fit them into their schedules. It was introduced by Rep. Bobby Guerra, D-Mission, and sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, D-McAllen.
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The Arizona Republic
As a veteran management consultant, Fran Maxwell noticed a shortage of employees with technology skills. For many of his past clients — Fortune 1000 companies that yearned to fix their problems — the issue was coding. But the Scottsdale entrepreneur has 9-year-old son Braeden to thank for his latest venture, iCode Kids, a private educational service that teaches technical skills like game design, coding and robotics to children in grades K-8.
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Lose the boring coding platforms—bring coding to life with Vidcode. Vidcode teaches students how to code through their favorite hobby: video making. Get free resources today!
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EdTech Magazine
While African-American and Latino workers make up 29 percent of the general workforce, they only make up 15 percent of those holding computing jobs and 12 percent of engineers, reports U.S. News and World Report. Expanding on its efforts to recruit from historically black colleges and universities, Google has created Howard West, a Howard University campus at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California Bonita Stewart, Google's vice president of global partnerships — and a Howard alum — writes in a blog post that Howard West will be the cornerstone of Google's efforts to recruit African-American software engineers.
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SPEL Technologies, Inc.
Teach your students computer programming using an accessible digital textbook called Merscythe: Adventures with the Codue. The textbook contains a story-based game in which users unlock chapters by answering programming questions, and it is loaded with many features including tutorials, instructor resources, and a learning management system. The tutorials contain practice exercises and animation games to make learning easy and engaging. The learning management system facilitates creation, grading and testing of assignments, online video classes and class discussions. The instructor resources contain a webinar that is approximately two hours long, homework problems with solutions, and projects.
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OnMSFT
Microsoft Philanthropies announced an expansion of the Technology Education and Literacy in Schools program. In the upcoming school year, the program will see an addition of 100 schools in the U.S., a total of 1,100 new volunteers, all aimed at paring technology professionals with educators to teach computer science in high school classrooms.
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The San Diego Union-Tribune
The program started with a few kids from the Sunday school at his church. But after a few years, word got around about the computer programming classes Vic Wintriss was teaching to kids, and his program grew. Officially, Wintriss Technical Schools is the name of his non-profit that teaches the Java programming language to kids beginning in fifth grade. Unofficially? They are The League of Amazing Programmers.
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Forbes
Anecdotally, some undergraduate computer science students can land internships within one year of starting a computer science degree, without any prior experience. Many students take two to three years of hard work and lots of computer science coursework before their resumes are considered. After the resume screen, the only preparation that matters is passing the technical interview, which can be crammed in less than a month of studying.
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ACM, the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. CSTA appreciates ACM's ongoing support!
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