Pledges
College & University
Daryl Helpting - On December 7, the University of Regina Computer Science Department and Regina Catholic Schools are presenting a professional development day for Saskatchewan teachers in Grades 6-12. We will covering scratch, build your own blocks, greenfoot, and CSunplugged.
Panayiotis Verropoulos - talking to High School graduates about computing and computer science. Inform them about the various organizations (ACM, IEEE etc) and help them get an idea what to expect in University. Suggest things they should do to help them in their academic and professional career.
Jalobeanu Mihai-Stanislav - discussing this subject/event with my staff colegs, as well with our students, planning few seminars and webinars, advertising the CSEdWeek at national level, on teachers’ virtual groups and few national organisations (Moodle.ro, UPIR = a CS teachers society of Romania, ...) . http://edu.moodle.ro
David Carlson - I am available to do a few road shows at nearby high school and middle schools to talk about careers in computing. In fact, I have already done one such road show with the aid of one of our college students.
Tuğba Buldu - We tried to provide a Turkish Language resource for CSEd Week.
Barbara Ryder - We are one of 3 universities (Virginia Tech, U Virginia, George Mason University) sponsoring an NCWIT Regional Aspirations for Women in Computing Award in the VA/DC area. This is the first year of this activity. We choose our winners next week and we are very excited about this.
Stacy Hughes - Blogging, Facebooking, and Twitter Posts regarding the history of computer science.
Ruthe Farmer This week NCWIT will select the national winners/runners-up of the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing! http://www.aspirationsaward.org
Monica Anderson - This is an extension of the NCWIT Roadshow in a Box “Teach a Robot to Draw” that allows students to encode shapes for the finch robot to draw out on paper. The software is a web-based interface developed at The University of Alabama that allows middle school students to build a sequence of commands by selecting buttons.
Cynthia Skier - Explore Computer Science and Engineering this summer at the MIT Women’s Technology Program. January 1 is the deadline for girls currently in grade 11 to submit an application. We’re trying to get the word out this week to as many 11th grade teachers and female students (and their parents) in the U.S. as possible! Visit our site at http://wtp.mit.edu to learn more.
Elizabeth Hawthorne - Announcement about CSEd Week 2011 was emailed to 12,000 community college faculty and administrators.
Elizabeth Hawthorne - The ACM Committee for Computing Education in Community Colleges collaborated with CSTA to produce a poster on careers in computing. These posters were distributed to 8,000 CSTA members and a column was published in the December 2011 edition of ACM Inroads.
Kim Wilkens - Do you know something about a technology tool or computer science concept that you could help explain to others? TechKim is collecting student-created tutorials on her YouTube Channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/techkimtutorials). Of special interest are tutorials created by students using programming environments like Scratch, Alice and NetLogo. Or introduce TechKim and other students to a cool new tech tool!
Elise Duquette - I wrote a research paper that covers a field of computer science or information technology that is current in today’s society. I chose to write about bioinformatics because it incorporates computer science application to biology and the medical field, which are my main academic interests.
Holly Yanco - I will be teaching an Artbotics (http://www.artbotics.org) workshop for 26 middle school students at the Advanced Math and Science Academy Charter School in Marlboro, MA.
Daryl Hepting - CIPS (Canadian Information Processing Society) and the University of Regina are co-sponsoring a luncheon on Tuesday, December 6 at the Delta Hotel in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The guest speaker will be Dean Elliott, Science Consultant for the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education, who will talk about the future of computer science education in Saskatchewan.
Franklin Chen - I will discuss my own CS education on my blog and ideas on how to spread knowledge beyond just the narrow audience of undergrad CS majors.
Christine Shannon - I ordered the CSTA World of Opportunities poster for my classroom.
Kris Stewart - working with the student ACM computer club at SDSU, i have shared the poster celebrating CSEd Week. i have also posted on my facebook page.
Mark Whigham - This activity will provide students with information on certifications and how they are integrated into the computer science program.
David Schattilly - Teaching the next generation the science of computer. And computer safety, security, and how to avoid bad sites. Dates to be determined. I will do this at the I will do this at local library. I will do this to help parents understand what their children are seeing and how they can participate with their children. Also show how computer science has changed the world. How people like Grace Murray Hopper, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Dennis Ritchie, T. Linus and Steve Wozniak innovated computers to go from a warehouse of a singal computer to smartphones we hold in our hands. It should be fun. Webpage will be up by 12-02-11.
I am judging applications for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing! I utilize my Edtech education to blog, tweet, and share resources for computer science education!
Shaukura Ross I have 3,000 friends on Facebook and I am sure the word can be spread efficiently and reach some if not all. Majority of my network is the African American community.
Nayda Santiago Coordinating Outreach activities with university of PR student organizations; WIE, IEEE, ACM, Free Culture. Visit high schools to talk about computing and its impact. In Spanish.
Justin Robertson I will post information of Facebook to spread the word.
Claudia Casas Our student advocates will be posting student sucess stories in Computer Science among the CAHSI Universities on our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/6207949241/ Information on our student sucess stories will include the challenges faced, accomplishments, life outside CS, and advise to students who wish to start a career in Computer Science.
Ivanna Gutierrez In my Beauty and Joy of Computing Class we will be showcasing the games we made and what computer science is to high school students. I will also tweeting and posting status on Facebook and Google+ to promote Comp Sci
Arta Szathmary I teach at a community college. This semester I plan to reach out to all students in CISC110 and give them more information about considering Computer Science as a MAJOR. During Computer Science Week I would like to offer informational meetings for potential majors.
Teresa Coffman I’m reviewing applications for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing D.C. Affiliates
Vivian Stepp I will talk to local high school student, whether through Facebook or just conversation, I will have people be aware of how awesome CS can be. I would like to target girls especially.
Paul Gestwicki I maintain a blog dedicated to reflective practice in teaching. I intend to write a post about CS Ed week, as I did last year as well.
Teresa Hernandez As part of the Outreach Program of the Society of Women Engineers at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, we visit several schools throughout the year and teach students from all ages about the opportunities in engineering through talks and proyects. In addition to a small talk about computer engineering, we didn’t have an activity inspired by computer science until now, when we plan to include Computer Science Unplugged’s Sorting Group Dynamic http://www.ncwit.org/videos/network.htm hoping to get more students, specially females, interested in this field.
Crystal Carter CMD-IT is hosting a Telecon with our Community of Partners to share activities about CS Ed Week and create linkages.
Mark Guzdial I blogged on CSEdWeek and encouraged others to pledge!
Renee Fall The Commonwealth Alliance for IT Education (CAITE) is supporting several activities & events across Massachusetts in 2011. Schools, colleges, and clubs will benefit from transportation support, as well as “Massachusetts Celebrates CS Ed Week” banners, and tech items to provide participants. Go to http://caite.cs.umass.edu/educators/CSEdWeek.html for more information.
Darold Davis Interactive Media Arts Club (IMAC) of the Academy of Art University will be doing volunteer web design and development for local non-profit organizations in San Francisco / Bay Area to fulfill community service oblations and to increase awareness of the web, internet and related technologies.
Sheena Chiong An outreach program to Sweetwater Elementary Schoool in Miami, Fl. Our Florida International University STARS (Students & Technology Academia, Research and Services) group are reaching out to young kids to help develop their minds to be knowledgeable about technology.
Tim Finin We’ll highlight the week on our department’s web page and also make one or more posts about it on our department blog.
Mehran Sahami Mark Zuckerberg (CEO of Facebook) will be coming to the my (first quarter) introductory programming class at Stanford (with an enrollment of over 600) to talk to students about careers in computing. The event is actually scheduled for the week before CS Ed Week, since that’s when he was available.
Anmol Rajpurohit I would like to promote my open source based product named Sahaj Linux which is a wrapper to GNOME interface of Linux. This is a product of my research in Cognitive Science during my internship last summer. It is a great tool to make all people aware and make their work easy due to intuitive features in my GUI. It would be useful for all due to its robustness and reliability too.
Kathryn Vanderwater, a college student, is reviewing applications for the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing award. It’s a blast!
Lisa Albert, a college student and former student at Miss Porter’s High School, a private all-girls school in Farmington, CT, will be talking to some of the girls next week about her experience working in technology (Business IT) as well as discuss different CS options. She wants to create a discussion rather than a lecture and hear what questions and opinions the girls have. Since women in technology is a hot topic, this is a great opportunity to spread the word about majoring and working in a technology field and the different things people can do in the tech industry.
Jerome Domingo, a student in the Bren School of ICS at UCIrvine, plans on spreading the word about this by posting on Facebook, blogging on my website and re-tweeting on twitter.
Abrita Chakravarty, a college student, is reviewing applications for the NCWIT National Award for Aspirations in Computing as well as North Carolina competition.
Ken Anderson, an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is hosting the award event for the Colorado Affiliate of the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Award in March 2011.
Judith Challinger, an Associate Professor at California State University, Chico, is reviewing applications for the Bay Area Affiliate of the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Award.
Susan Sim, an assistant professor at UCIrvine, will write a post on on my blog about how the first programmers were women.
Yonatan Bisk, a PhD Candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is reviewing applications for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing for Central Illinois, Houston Texas and nationally.
Arjumand Younus, Research Associate for the Database and Multimedia Lab at KAIST, will be writing a blog post on the significant role of Computer Science in our lives and the opportunities that it gives to the world for making it a better place.
Donna Hunnicutt, Graduate Coordinator at University of Arkansas at Monticello, is reviewing applications for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing.
Suzanne Menzel, is planning the January 19 event for the Indiana Award for Aspirations in Computing.
David Todd, a Computer Science Professor at Mt. Hood Community College, is reviewing applications for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing Oregon Affiliate.
Alexandra Holloway, reviewed 23 applications for scholarships for young women to pursue computing fields after high school as part of the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Awards!
Jesse Heines, a Computer Science Professor at UMass Lowell, is involved with the Massachusetts NCWIT Affiliate Aspirations in Computing Award for high school girls.
Linda Werner, Lecturer and Associate Researcher at UC Santa Cruz, is meeting with a high school student to share my research project and solicit her help.
Jenny Hertel, Advisory Board Member, IU Women in Informatics & Computing, has reviewed applications for both the national and the Indiana NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing, and is volunteering to help put on a local livestream of the national TEDWomen conference.
Megan Olsen, is reviewing applications for the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Award.
Mohsen Beheshti, Professor and Chair of Computer Science at California State University, Dominguez Hills, pledges his department to attend 3 to 5 high schools (three schools already set and are waiting for confirmation of the last two) in our area to give a 30-minute presentation to a class about the field of computer science.
He has been working with the ACM student chapter and has arranged for our graduate and senior students to give the presentations to high school students (in their classes) during CSEdWeek. We believe students hearing from their peers are very effective.Maureen Biggers, Assistant Dean for Diversity and Education, Indiana University and Indiana STARS Coalition - We’re hosting 20 Indiana Aspirations award winners across the state, and another 22 semifinalists. The teacher network will receive the winning names, explanation of the program and information about CSEdweek and the resource sites for them to use. All of our informatics and computing students and faculty have received the info and were asked to help spread the word about CS Ed week via their networks.
Nayda Santiago, an Associate Professor at University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez - CAHSI (Computing Alliance for Hispanic-Serving Institutions) is sponsoring a contest for students to create their own song/dance/poem/promotional piece that sells Computer Science to middle/high school students. Students will post their video (tagged with “CSEd Week” and “CAHSI” keywords) on YouTube during CSEdWeek.
Debra Richardson, Chair of CSEdWeek - We’re having a contest here at CSEdWeek headquarters to see who comes closest to guessing the number of pledges we’ll get for CSEdWeek. If you want to participate, send an email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)!
Jenella Bellows, a college student, will give a presentation at Alfred Almond Junior-Senior High School in Almond, NY to raise awareness about computing careers.
Tim Korb, Assistant Head of Computer Science at Purdue University, will be publicizing on Facebook and other sites, our CS4EDU project. This project includes the creation of a Computer Science Endorsement for secondary school teachers.
Susanne Steiger-Escobar, a professor at MassBay Community College, plans to update her department’s facebook page everyday with links that show how CS is used to help the world.
Ratan Kumar, a college student at Cochin University of Science and Technology in Kerala India, has made a Google site with friends where they can discuss all the computer science related stuff - http://www.csewave.com.
Omoju Miller, a college student, will be updating my facebook page all week long with all the ways that computer science has changed the world for the better. This way I will reach my friends who are not in the field.
Kristina Winbladh, an Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware, plans to tweet and blog about CSEdWeek as well as making her department aware of it.
David Kay, Vice Chair of Informatics at UCIrvine’s Bren School of ICS, is offering a Landscape of Computer Science Education Opportunities - an overview for first-year students of the wide range of courses, majors, and minors in computing-related fields at UC Irvine.
Alexis Miteff, a university student, will be presenting literature review of thesis on network neutrality.
Paola Garcia, Computer Club Organizer a St. Thomas Aquinas College ... First off, during that week we’ll be petitioning our school for support and get our Computer Club recognized. We’ll pass the message around school about the Computer Science Education week.
In our Club activity, we’ll be sending out an email to all the school community letting them know about this week and we’ll be asking a question: How can you as a student help promote Computer Science among other students?
Thank youShanan Sorochynski, Communications Officer & Blog Manager at University of Regina in Canada, The University of Regina’s official blog will feature a variety of computer science related posts thanks to the efforts of Computer Science professor Daryl Hepting and the University of Regina community.
Michael Terrazas, Interim Communications Director at Georgia Tech College of Computing, will conduct a social media campaign (Facebook & Twitter) to promote Computer Science Education Week in general and our CS education activities in particular.
Robert Mikhayelyan, a Microsoft Student Representative, will be giving quick talks at high school computer science class about what students’ futures could be like in computer science.
Michele Leonard, Parent and External Relations Coordinator for the National Center for Women and Information Technology, is going to wow my daughter’s Brownie troupe with the card trick and sorting exercises outlined in CS Unplugged!
Leisa Thompson, Director of Research & Consulting for the National Center for Women and Information Technology, has included a message with my email signature to promote CSEdWeek
Darin Bartholomew, a Microsoft Student Partner at Temple University, will be talking to students in tech-ed and math classes about the computer science field as well as the Microsoft Blink web design competition. Also, I will be going to my old middle school web design class to have a general discussion with the students about the future of Technology and get them excited about the computer science field!
Paul Gestwicki, an Associate Professor at Ball State University, will write a nice blog post about why this is a good thing. But, I will use details. Unlike this.
I gave my blog URL below. Feel free to link to it or the salient article, once it is written.
Cheers!Amilcar Gonzalez, a college student in Puerto Rico, is working with a team to design a module that contains a board, software, a mini game to program, and an annotated presentation for high school teachers. We have identified teachers who are willing to help with CSEdweek. We are targetting puertorrican schools and the module is in Spanish. The objective is to demonstrate that computing and software can be fun and entertaining and also striving to eliminate the stereotypes.
Jane Krauss, Curriculum and Program Developer at NCWIT, will be blogging about ways to encourage computational thinking through real-life projects. The audience for my blog is K-12 teachers keen on technology-rich learning environments. I’m bridging from that interest to the use of technologies -from spreadsheets to Scratch- to encourage the exploration of computational concepts during real-life problem solving.
One example? Students in Ohio became concerned about broken sidewalks in their town that hamper mobility for senior and disabled citizens. By making an inventory of sidewalk quality and studying foot traffic patterns students were able to create a model that they presented to the city council in support of their recommendations for sidewalk repair.Evymarie Prado, a college student in Puerto Rico and IEE WIE Secretary, is helping to design a module that contains a board, software, a mini game to program, and an annotated presentation for high school teachers. We have identified teachers who are willing to help with and learn from CSEdweek. We are targeting Puerto Rican schools and the module is in Spanish. The objective is to demonstrate that computing and software can be fun and entertaining as well as striving to eliminate the stereotypes.
Vasantha Vivek, a professor in Singapore, will be spreading the word and informing students and others about the impact of computing and the importance of computer science education during CSEdWeek.
Anil Pattni, I’m the organizer of OCHackers, a meetup group in Orange County, California. We are developers, students, entrepreneurs, businesses, designers, coders, etc. who get together and develop wireless apps. We’ll be extra creative for CSEdWeek.
Michael Shepherd, Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University, will be visiting local high schools, along with a faculty member and a PhD student, giving some demos of projects done by our students.
Barbara Owens, past chair of ACM SIGCSE, has been developing the Computing Educators Oral History Project, which will release an upgraded website for Computer Science Education Week and showing off its new YouTube CEOHP Channel.
Wendy DuBow, a Research Scientist with the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT), is going to watch a CS Unplugged video and run the activity with my children and their friends.
Clint Hassan is blogging about CSEd Week activities including comments, suggestion, recommendations and reactions regarding the activities from day 1 up to the end of the activities and beyond.
Mariano Martes, a Computer Science Teacher in Puerto Rico, is designing a module that contains a board, a mini game to program, software, and an annotated presentation for high school teachers. We have identified teachers who are willing to help with CSEdweek. We are targeting Puerto Rican schools and the module is in Spanish. The objective is demonstrating that Computing and software can be fun and entertaining while striving to eliminate the stereotypes.
Elizabeth Hawthorne, Chair of ACM’s Two-Year College Education Committee, points people to CAP Space from the ACM Two-Year College Education Committee, which is an interactive repository of Curricula, Assessment and Pedagogical resources for associate-degree programs in computer science and other computing disciplines.
Cameron Wilson, Director of Public Policy for ACM - We are reaching out to all ACM members in the United States to spread the word about Computer Science Education Week. We are also highlighting CSEdWeek by making it the cover story for our December issue of Communications of the ACM, our flagship publication and making it the lead story on our website.
Erika Paloma and Sanchez Femat, college students and CEO and Manager of The Droid Engine and Google Technology Users Group Zacatecas, Mexico, will give conferences about the importance of Computer Science and how it changes the world.
Jeff Gray, an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama, will conduct several outreach roadshows in the central Alabama area during the week of CSEdWeek.
David Corne, a computer science professor at Heriot-Watt University in the City of Edinburgh, Scotland, will tweet links to various resources showing the value of computing.
Edgar Ortiz, a Cal State University Long Beach student and President of CSULB’s ACM student chapter, will be posting information from the CSEdWeek resources page on our facebook page.
Mark Guzdial, a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, will be blogging on CSedWeek at computinged.wordpress.com, and is honored to be a member of the CSEdWeek Steering Committee.
Peter Drake, an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Lewis & Clark College, will be participating in an online meeting of the Northwest Distributed Computer Science Department, a group of (mainly) CS faculty at colleges in the Pacific Northwest who are active in CS education.
Debra Richardson, Chair of CSEdWeek, has been spreading the word and trying to get everyone she knows to participate in CSEdWeek since it was endorsed by Congress. She’s hoping everyone will pledge to support CSEdWeek and take on some activity. Debra will like, tweet, share, blog, and do anything she can between now and CSEdWeek as well as during the week and beyond. This is all very exciting!
Kiki Prottsman, Chair for Women in Computer Science at the University of Oregon, plans to blog about Computer Science Education Week on geekgroupies.blogger.com (among other things) and try to do her best to keep awareness up!
Chris Mayfield, a PhD Candidate at Purdue University: I will conduct a “parts of a computer” role-play in my daughter’s first grade class. Groups of students will represent various components of a personal computer, e.g., CPU, memory, disk, keyboard, etc. and practice passing “data” back and forth. This is based on Topic 1 from the Level 1 activities in the ACM K-12 CS Model Curriculum.
