Pledges
Companies & Professionals
Judith Bishop - There will be a blog on this site next week http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msr_er/
Le Osburn - Promotions for starting a new trade association chapter for FY2012 that will bring together College Prep High school students, teachers and professors of all levels, researchers, technologists, and industry. Celebrating accomplishments of YOUR Schools programs: please tell me about them! I invite you to share your post with me here: facebook.com/le.osburn1 or Connect with me on LinkedIn (see URL below) Compute and Create On!
Steven Ira Marcus - We are inglesgarantizado an english language school in murcia madrid barcelona spain with classes here in murcia during the year and classes in london and miami during the summers.We want to connect spanish language schools in both london and the usa with our national school.We will search for and connect with other schools where the students desire webpals..Chat google talk partners for homework helping.conversation romance between adults and business ops among corporate students.We invite private schools of language and regular high schools businesses.We will search,contact and organize international interlanguage activities.
Idit Harel Caperton - Teach Game Design, Computer Science and Engineering to your middle school or high school students through GLOBALORIA, a results-proven comprehensive digital learning and teaching program, implemented in 60 schools in 5 states. Professional development and ongoing blended-learning support included. March 1 is the deadline for educators/principals to submit an application for next school year. We’re trying to get the word out this CSEDweek so many teachers apply and plan to fit it into their daily schedules! Visit our site at http://www.Globaloria.org to learn more about enhancing subject learning with CSED, 3 teaching tracks, application requirements and process, and more.
Nikki Navta - For the next 30 days, Zulama will make the first games programming project in our Intro to Games Programming course (http://zulama.com/content/introduction-video-game-programming) available for free to students and teachers. This course was authored by Ruth Comley, faculty at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University. Students learn programming by coding an actual video game using GameMaker (available for free at yoyoyogames.com).
Clay Smith - We’ve posted links to the Pledge with a pitch for supporting CSEdWeek on our social networks.
Linda Bookey - We are publishing a paper on the skills gap and needs for better workforce development. It’s focused on programs in Washington state, but applicable nationally.
Vani Mandava - Posting a tweet.
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.
Kristin Tolle - I’m giving a lecture on natural user interactions, machine translation, and healthcare at a local junior high and high school.
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!
Clayton Smith I’m sharing the CsEdWeek countdown widget on our website.
Penny Napoli I judging applications for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing for both the National and the Local Indiana awards.
Volker Mueller I am judging applications for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing for the National and the North Carolina competitions. This involves the review of about two dozens applications by female high school students pursuing computer science activities taking classes in school or as extracurricular activities. More information is available at http://www.ncwit.org.
Georgia P I am on the planning committee for an annual Expanding Your Horizons (TM) conference, scheduled for March 2012. I am developing an activity on compute clusters. The attendees will pretend to be processors in a cluster, some with different capabilities. We will “calculate” something, engage in message passing and I/O, and ultimately (I hope) end up with a “solution” to an actual problem (solve a maze? pixelate an image?) While the “activity” will not take place during CSEd week, we do have a committee meeting scheduled, and will be soliciting additional workplace participation on the committee or to develop other STEM activities and workshops. I will cite CSEd week in those solicitations.
Tracy Hughes-Head Judging applications for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing
Terri Lewis I am judging applications for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing.
Ferne Hayashi judging applications for NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing
Patricia Phillips I sent 40+ letters of Appreciation to the principals of the CS teachers involved in my CS XNA curriculum pilot and to writers of Microsoft Certification classroom teaching resources.
Rane Johnson Microsoft Research Connections Researchers will head to Kent School District Friday Dec 2nd- to the two Technology Academies covering 7th-12th graders to make them aware of all the cool things students can do as a computer science researcher. We will share projects, share tools, studenst will participate in pilot projects, tallk to researchers, understand career paths and how to create a high school beyond plan that can help them become a researcher and cool tools to investigate in computer science education week.
Bill Glass Promote CSEd Week in company newsletter
Andrea Joseph I will be grading applications on the national and state level.
Trent Smith, External communications specialist for SAS, tells us about his company’s pledges: “Business analytics company SAS has reached out to its many contacts in the education world through blog posts, multiple Facebook pages, tweets and direct emails. The CSEdWeek logo is on our website, and one of our iPad app developers has been interviewed for a Science Lives piece. The response from teachers and education leaders, particularly in NC, has been tremendous.”
Suzie Boss, an Edutopia blogger, blogged for Edutopia about an award-winning after-school program designed to engage girls in higher-level computer science courses in high school:
”Got Game: How to Keep Girls Interested in Computer Science”Heather Rocker, Executive Director of Georgia’s Women in TechnologyThrough our organization, Women in Technology (www.mywit.org), we are spreading the word throughout Georgia and especially with the supporters of our Girls Get IT program.
Traci Rodgers, Vice President at Bank of America, has reviewed for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations for Indiana, Bay Area, Boston, and North Carolina. Good luck to all! We have some awesome applicants!
Debbie Hoffa, IT Manager at OneAmerica, is reviewing applications for the NCWIT Award for both the Aspirations in Computing Indiana Affiliate and for the National awards.
I am also assisting in the planning of the January 19 event for the Indiana Award for Aspirations in Computing which is being hosted by my employer, OneAmerica, in Indianapolis.
I am setting up a tour of the OneAmerica Data Center for the Indiana award recipients.Anne-Liese Stuer, is reviewing applications for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing Illinois Affiliate.
Jill Tietjen, President and CEO of Technically Speaking, Inc., is celebrating the legacy of Admiral Grace Murray Hopper by hosting a luncheon on her birthdate. Jill is one of the speakers and nominated Admiral Hopper for the National Medal of Technology and to the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
Weiwei Cheng, a Research Intern at Microsoft Research Cambridge, has presented a demo at Think Computer Science, a one day event co-organized by Microsoft Research Cambridge. Every year, for the past 6 years, a number of students are invited for an exciting day of talks, demos, and interactive sessions. The goal is to inspire and support students early on in their education, providing insight into the world of a computer scientist. The demo he presents (called RipOff!) together with a tutorial attempts to show some interesting aspects in cooperative game theory. It is based on the research of his colleague Yoram Bachrach.
Shari Money, Manager of Collaborations for Girl Scouts of West Central Florida, is reviewing applications for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing Florida Affiliate.
Matt Livingston, is speaking to Junior High Schoolers about what Computer Scientists do and what we can do to make this a better world!
Ariana Robinson, is reviewing applications for the Indiana Award for Aspirations in Computing.
Yolanda Rankin, a Research Staff Member at IBM Research - Almaden, will meet with high school seniors at Overton High School to discuss her role as a research staff member at IBM research and her career in Computer Science.
Volker Mueller, Research Director at Bentley Systems Incorporated, is reviewing and judging students’ submittals for National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT; http://www.ncwit.org) national and regional Aspirations in Computing Awards (Ohio, North Carolina).
Andrea Joseph, a Senior Software Developer at Liberty Mutual, is reviewing applications for Indiana, Illinois and National Aspirations in Computing Award participants.
Ameeth Deenanath, Account Manager with Cognizant, has reviewed various applications for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing.
Pat Rex, Webmaster/Designer for ETR Associates,reviewed applications for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in San Francisco Bay Area Affiliate 2010-2011 and National Award 2010-2011.
Marie Perrin, is reviewing applications for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing in the San Francisco Bay Area in honor of CSEdWeek.
Phillip Gibbons, Principal Research Scientist at Intel, is serving on the CSEdWeek Steering Committee and will publicize CSEdWeek broadly within Intel.
Phil Bond, President and CEO of TechAmerica, will help spread the word, and hope to catalyze more company involvement.
Charity Herr, National and Chief Technology Officer with Microsoft Corporation, will conduct a session on the history of computers with elementary school students. They will view pictures and discuss how computers have changed since they have been created; a computer expert will answer questions and discuss the progress of computer science education.
Cameron Evans, Microsoft’s Education CTO,(@EDUCTO),is teaming up with Birmingham City Schools to kick off Computer Science Education Week in his hometown. “The Magic of Software Day” focuses on how students can use Computer Science in college.
Grace Suh, a Senior Program Manager with IBM - IBM Corporate Citizenship managers throughout the US will highlight CSEdWeek with the schools IBM works with and encourage them to use the IBM/CSTA resources created and featured here: http://csta.acm.org/Resources/sub/HighlightedResources.html
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)!
Ashish Parmar, is reviewing Aspiration in Computing Award applications for the National Center for Women and Information Technology.
Shelby Healy, VP of Communication for International Association of Business Communicators, will be taking his placement tests to start a web development and design career - a huge switch from six years in sales! ...and of course, I’ll be blogging all about it on shelbot.com.
Chris Hemedinger, a Senior Software Developer at SAS, will blog for CSEdWeek - see posts at http://blogs.sas.com/sasdummy.
Michael Diaz, a corporate professional, will bring up awareness by talking with collegues and other professionals through face to face, im, and social media.
Cameron Wilson, Director of Public Policy for ACM, is reaching out to key Congressional Members and staff during Computer Science Education Week to discuss the issues and findings of the recent report Running on Empty report by ACM and CSTA (http://www.acm.org/runningonempty) and the need for Congress to take up and pass the Computer Science Education Act.
Katherine Hahn, Director of Federal and Government Relations at SAS, is working with SAS corporate internal communications team to publish articles on our intranet site each day to celebrate Computer Science Education Week.
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.Chris White, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, will be spreading work of CSEdWeek through various social media outlets.
Diane Larsen, a Program Manager at Microsoft, is visiting the elementary school that she attended during CSEdWeek , which is in a rural area, and talking about what I do at Microsoft, the great things about working at companies like Microsoft, and why a broad-based education is important for the jobs of today and tomorrow. She will be visiting the school multiple times during the school year, talking about careers and career development, and volunteering in science and math activities.
Pat Phillips, a K-12 Curriculum Developer with Microsoft Corporation, is sending letters of appreciation to the principals of the teachers who are in her XNA game development pilot and others that she work with. The purpose is to draw attention to the work they do in preparing their students in computer science and to make the principal aware of their work and the importance of their work.
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.
Philip Puthumana, VP Business Development of E-Line Media, has posted a link to the Computer Science Education Week website (csedweek.org) on the STEM Video Game Challenge website to let more students and teachers know about it.
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.
Lisa Kaczmarczyk, with ACM Education Council, will be composing a column for Inroads magazine that will discuss CS Education week. The article will appear three months from now and serve as a refresher of what is to happen (and by then will have happened) and as a reminder that the importance of CS Education is a year round activity.
She will also promote on my blog during that week the final week activities and projects of the APCS Principles pilot project that is taking place at UCSD. Anyone who will be in the San Diego area is welcome to contact her (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) if they would like information about seeing the student final projects.
Gary Kacmarcik says, “Every year for CSEdWeek, I go to a local school and either give a presentation to or run an activity for the students. This year, I’ll be running my “How the Internet Works” activity. In this activity, the students act out various parts of the internet and learn how routers and DNS works to route traffic to websites. Also, in preparation for this, I’ll be publishing part IV of the activity and releasing it on the website before CSEdWeek.”
Jerri Barrett, the VP of Marketing at the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, will be actively promoting CSEdWeek with a newsletter on December 6th, blogs and daily tweets.
Leslie Hawthorn - I will be blogging about CS Ed Week at hawthornlandings.org, my personal blog. I have also reached out to a local girl’s school to offer to give a guest lecture on careers in computing.
