Pledges
K-12 Educators
Jeff Solin - I ordered the CSTA World of Opportunities poster for my classroom.
Stephanie Hoeppner - There will be CS questions of the day that students can submit their answers for. Random drawings from the correct answers for prizes. There also is a jar filled with keys popped off old keyboards where the students will guess how many keys are in the jar to win a prize at the end of the week.
Barbara Froehlich - Have a student each day during the week give a brief one minute info session over the school PA on some aspect of computer science. The other technology teachers and I will be showing the video that you have posted for each day of the week
Michele Merlini - Toshiba holds a contest each year - for technology innovation. I require ALL of my 8th grade students to participate in this contest. They need to invent something new or predict where a current technology will be in 25 years.
Tsania Passfield - I ordered the CSTA World of Opportunities poster for my classroom.
Sam Black - I was interviewed for a radio program to air on Sunday about the happenings in our school district and it was all about Computer Science and what it is and why folks should support it.
Carol Yarbrough - Every day this week students are asked to answer one question about Computer Science - How it relates to their life; What job opportunities there are; Something about history of CS; etc. When they answer the question by writing on a big poster board, they learn some new information about CS and they can enter into a drawing for gift cards. The 9th grade English teacher is also helping spread the word by asking a daily computer science question. This is helping make the target audience, 8th - 9th graders, think about computer science.
Mike Snyder - I created a powerpoint to be shown on the morning tv announcements discussing the need for computer science majors in the future. I will post ppt by 12/8/11.
Doug Bergman - We invite all of our parents into the library one evening for a “Computer Science Fair” put on by the kids. The dress nice and present about robotics, game programming, hardware,and 3D modeling. Gives a chance for parents to see their children doing something they themselves don’t know much about. Also gives us a chance to show parents what Computer Science is, and is not. It’s one of my favorite nights of the year. One of the other classes puts on an Android App Development workshop for parents.
Vijayshree Sundar - I am teaching Scratch programming to seventh and eighth graders. A lot fun, plenty of questions and flowing creativity. Students are programming with out additional stress on syntax of programming languages.
Linda Brimmer - Using speaking avatars, my Teaching as a Profession students are learning how to implement this technology into teaching diverse learners. Partnering with the AP Computer Science teacher, code was used to insert the avatar into a HTML document to motivate learners in a lesson that reflected child development needs. Additional uses for the avatar included its use to teach dyslexia students in various educational lessons.
Bob Johnson - At my HS we held a free pizza lunch session where students viewed YouTube videos of 5 different alumni from our HS who now have Computer Science related careers. Each alumni was asked to create a brief 1-2 minute video introducing themselves, when they graduated from our HS, where they went to college, where they now work, and what specific computer science tools they now use in their jobs. Alumni were also asked to share why they liked their Computer Science job. We had approximately 25 students attend this event, which included approx. 4-5 female HS students. It was a very fun event! Thanks.
Susan Recoon - Every morning this week, we have an announcement for the entire school that relays a FUN computer fact.
Amy Fox-Billig - After school workshop to share with parents and students various aspects of computer science, such as computational thinking, robotics, networking, programming and applied areas of computer science. (Due to scheduled parent conferences this week, the activity will be held the following week.)
Ann Drobnis - In celebration of CS Ed Week, the National Science Foundation rolled out CS Bits & Bytes, a biweekly newsletter highlighting innovative computer science research. The NSF CS Bits & Bytes series emphasizes how computer science permeates and improves our lives and supports progress in many other disciplines. CS Bits & Bytes issues include profiles of the individuals who do this exciting work. We hope that educators and parents will use CS Bits & Bytes to inspire students to engage in the multi-faceted world of computer science, to become not just users but creators of technology, and to develop the skills to bend computation to their own ends, no matter their interests. To receive CS Bits & Bytes, visit http://www.nsf.gov/cise/csbytes.
Richard Binkley - We previously had a free response question where the students had to write a program to calculate the height of a cannonball over time. Today we showed how we could use that as the beginning of a (very simple) Angry Birds-style game. We used the GridWorld case study from the AP Computer Science exam to plot the path of the cannonball through the air.
Carrara Knoetgen - I am having my students research a contributor to computer science. They will create a photo collage of their contributor and write an essay on how he or she inspires them to learn about computing.
Mary Reynolds - I ordered the CSTA World of Opportunities poster for my classroom.
Bill Dunklau - For Monday: December 5-9 is Computer Science Week, so chosen to honor Grace Hopper, Rear Admiral, US Navy, an early computer pioneer and developer of the first compiler, whose birthday was December 9. Watch the computer science bulletin board for new student programs to be added throughout the week. For Wednesday: “Computer Science graduates now get more offers of employment than any other major…. ‘There are many different [types of] companies that need to hire computer scientists,’ said Mimi Collins. ‘One computer science grad may have 10 offers….’ Annabelle Evans graduated as a computer science major from the University of Southern California in 2008. [Annabelle]...now works at Google.” [From SD Times, August 2011.]
Roger McKnight - As a culminating activity in my computer science classes, I give an independent project. One of the things that I encourage students to do is to demonstrate their project to one other student who is not enrolled in the class. This gives the students really good feedback as to how interesting their project is, but also raises awareness around the school about the computer sciences courses that we offer.
Steve Ostrom - Students write a 5 sentence 5 paragraph fable and create an animation using PowerPoint and Microsoft Movie Maker that depicts the fable.
Dawn Prescott - Using the posters provided, I will start class discussion about careers in computer science this week.
Christopher Rozitis - I am currently developing a new online computer science class for students in British Columbia. This course is divided into three sections: 1. Intro to Programming with Greenfoot: Object-Oriented Programming in Java with Games and Simulations 2. Intro to Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and Javascript 3. Intro to Developing iPhone/iPad Application.
Damian DeMarco - Students in my Computer Programming class are accompanying me on a visit to the Cahners ComputerPlaceexhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston where students can explore the robotics, computers, and communication systems that enhance our lives. Students will view exhibits about the history of the development of computers, see a mainframe, type on an acutal Enigma machine and participate in activities related to computing and computational thinking, activities that provide an exciting, hands-on way for students to explore the STEM concepts behind robotics and computing through talking to a virtual museum guide, navigating an interactive sandscape, programming a robot.
We blogged about CSEDWeek and generally disseminate CS to high school students as much as possible, in line with Oregon’s OPAS goals. the blog: http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/getreal/2011/12/csedweek-org/ OPAS: http://opas.ous.edu/
Christy Ledford - I ordered the CSTA World of Opportunities poster for my classroom.
Leigh Rogers - We created Computer Science Week flyers that have been displayed throughout the building. In homeroom on Wed. we will show 2 of the videos to over 1000 high school students. I am displaying the poster I received from this website.
Chinma Uche - The GHAMAS computer programming team will attend a high school programming contest on Friday 12/9/2011 at Fitchburg State College, MA. We will be sponsoring three teams to the contest.
Keith Miller - Each of my six middle school classes will be viewing CSTA videos to promote awareness of computer science throughout this week.
Joe Kmoch - I’m co-chairing the Wisconsin Affiliate of the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing; I’m also a reviewer for the national level of the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing.
Pauline Quan - I will be posting the CSTA posters in both of the school’s computer studies lab and ask that students read and write a reflection about the contents.
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.
Daryl Hepting - 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.
Jim Walker - I ordered the CSTA World of Opportunities poster for my classroom.
Melinda Johns - I ordered the CSTA World of Opportunities poster for my classroom. I plan to use it when recruiting students for next year. I will also use it to give info to those studnets wanting to pursue CS in college.
Zorica Prekajski - I ordered the CSTA World of Opportunities poster for my classroom.
Brad Bailey - I ordered the CSTA World of Opportunities poster for my classroom.
Nancy Hoffman - I have downloaded the CSTA video announcements and I gave them to our TV Production students. They will run the five announcements during the morning announcements at my high school next week. Last year we did the same and it created interest in the Computer Science classes that we offer here.
Nancy Hoffman - I ordered the CSTA World of Opportunities poster for my classroom.
Dianne Kelly - I have requested the new CSEdWeek poster to display in the main hall of Pentucket Regional High School.
Bill Dunklau - I have ordered the CSTA World of Opportunities poster, will post it on my bulletin board in the hallway outside my classroom, and will leave it up for at least six (6) weeks. I will also post results of student programming work - either code or output - on my bulletin board during CS Ed Week.
I ordered the CSTA World of Opportunities poster for my Business and Technology Department at Cypress Falls High School.
Craig Whitmore - displaying poster for the computer programming classes I teach at my middle school
Dwight Jessup - We have used our TV broadcast crew to create infomericals for each day of Computer Science Week discussing the computer science course that we offer at the school. We will then look to publish each segment on our web page.
Chris Hayden - I plan on showing my students a few informational videos about all that computer science has to offer, share with them some weblinks with valuable information about CS, and have a discussion with them about what computer science is.
Kathleen Weaver - I ordered the CSTA World of Opportunities poster for my classroom.
Rodrigo Anadon - Reading e-book Own Your Space and having open discussions with students over the topics of each chapter. Creating a Word Wall and then going to organize all the vocabulary through the use of visual organizers to show students how technology has evolved, what students can do to become responsible digital citizens, and what students need to do with digital ethics.
Renee Mahler - Work with teachers using high and low tech suggestion and equipment in the class room. Demonstrate way to allow all students to access course work.
Steve Novotny - Develop a series of color posters featuring student profiles in computer science. The posters will be manufactured in the design tech department on campus. Each student poster will include a highlighted photo of the student, a couple activity photos, future education (wish) plans, areas of CS they are most interested in, and personal statements. These posters will be displayed around the school, both at the high school and at the feeder middle schools from which the students attended. The objective of this project is to enhance student self esteem and highlight the subject and careers in computer science.
Rose Hopkins - Our department is hosting an Exchange Day so students can visit my classroom and try some different programming languages. I also plan on showing the daily videos which are on the website and have discussions on how computing impacts our daily lives.
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!
Andrew Kuemmel My students are going to post links to their Greenfoot Gallery to show their friends the neat games they made!
Glen Huffman Various in class activities including career studies
Karen North I am visiting schools in the Houston area to spread the word about computer science. Students will participate in the Robotic Spelling Bee that I started last year.
Ben Chun Going to UC Berkeley to attend Dan Garcia’s event!
Patrice Gans I wrote a brief letter to the editor of the New York Times advocating for computer programming for elementary students and at the same time I mentioned Computer Science Education Week. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/18/opinion/the-computer-programmer-is-a-child.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Brian Scarbeau We will be showing 2 minutes videos of how computer science is being used the real world. Videos of our robotics class will be shown as well.
Stacey Roshan School - sharing of student’s Scratch projects in the 1st trimester Online - sharing of student’s Scratch project through twitter and Scratch community
Maria Skiadelli A class of 10 and 11 year old students, will “program” their Christmas tress using the Logo language and they will decorate them by flickering lights!
Jessica Parsons In colloboration with Math, Computer SCience, and technology class students will be asked to come up with an idea and a description for a new app. Students in computer science classes will develop apps using app inventor, and then visit google.
Sharon Jones Students will be attending a workshop and learning new computer science concepts at UNCC on December 8th. We will also be creating posters and logos that showcase computer science.
Joshua Paley Field trip to UC-Berkeley for students to learn about the possibilities of CS on the next level.
Rebecca Dovi My upper lever computer science students are organizing a Computer Science Expo for our guidance counselors, administrators and any interested teachers. The Expo will feature student work from all of our computer science classes. The guests will have a chance to explore the kinds of projects we work on to get a sense of what computer science is all about. We’ll be providing breakfast treats for folks to munch on while they see the best of what CS has to offer.
Karen Lang Mass Academy will host a panel of alumni who are using computer science (computational thinking) skills in their careers to speak to current students about how they use CS/CT and their journey after high school.
Myra Deister The computer science students at Sunny Hills High School will be given a tour and discussions at Raytheon about careers in computer science.
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.”
Joshua Paley, a Teacher, Computer Science & Mathematics at Henry M. Gunn High School took almost 50 students to UC-Berkeley’s CS Education Day for high school students on December 7, 2010. Students saw displays and talks about animation, games, AI, and robotics, amongst other things. It was outstanding! (There are a lot of things one simply cannot do in class…)
Mario Alvarez, IT/Community Teacher for Adults at New Horizon Coop of Boulder, will write a Science Blog in Spanish supporting STEM education to be distributed among students and teachers here in USA and in a few Latin American countries.
Avinash Kulkarni, a K-12 computer science teacher in India, is running an activity called Inter House Computer Science Quiz 2010-11, which is organised to test the level of computer science knowledge in high school students. The quiz is desigined and will be hosted by the school children.
Fred Borne, HCC CCP Mathematics Teacher at Ansonia High School, is introducing students to the process of creating their own programs that they can use on a graping calculator.
Vicki Coffman, a Computer Science Teacher at Dulles High School in Texas, is creating a pictorial computer science history display outside of library.
Tom Adamich, Head of Metadata/President, Muskingum University/Visiting Librarian Service, is reviewing applications for the Ohio Aspirations in Computing Awards. Committee chair, Dr. Jay Shaffstall, and Tom will select winners this week. The awards ceremony is scheduled to be held Saturday April 2, 2011 in Columbus.
Pat Yongpradit, a teacher at Springbrook High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, invited the Microsoft Director of Communications for Worldwide Education, Suzi LeVine, come to school and meet with the Springbrook Women in Technology. I am playing the CSTA provided videos for my morning announcements all week.
Charles Fulco, a science teacher at Port Chester Middle School, will instruct his students how to incorporate and integrate computer science into their daily workload, to create a virtually paperless class.
K Miller, a computer science teacher, will show the videos posted on the CSTA website to each of my classes. I may also share these with students who have other teachers during an after school session.
Leighanne Young, a Computer Science teacher at Whitehouse High School in Texas, will do an assignment where students will use their choice of presentation software such as glogster, Prezi, Power Point or Word to create a presentation to encourage and raise awareness about Computer Science Education.
Ciro Viamontes, an Instructional Technology Specialist at Clements High School in Fort Bend Independent School District in Texas, will spread the word around the district by sharing links, blogging, and generally raising awareness.
Salih Tuncer, a Computer Science teacher at Chesapeake Science Point Public Charter School, will give a homework and a period class focusing on Computer Science Education.
Debbiee Stotts, a HiC Teacher in Ocean Beach School District, will teach her 19 highly capable students to create a blog on the school district website, insert pictures, insert a weblink, approve comments as an administrator, and leave comments on other students’ blogs. We will also take digital pictures of our blogging experiences and insert them into a Word document to publish a newsletter! The newsletter will be emailed to parents, informing them and highlight our blogging achievements.
Anna Alfano, a Computer Science teacher in Canada, will be showing the CSTA CSEdweek videos on TV screens in the cafeteria during lunch periods as well as showing computer pioneers and careers in computer science powerpoint projects done by computer science students.
Renee Mahler, an occupational therapist licensed & registered with the American Occupational Therapy Association, will be sharing with other staff members how computers can allow all students equal access and informing them about CAST and RFB & D access to print material.
Eileen Bomberger, a kindergarten teacher, is developing a Kind-garden website lesson on wiki for my kindergarten students.
I am a Media Specialist trying to include my kindergarten students to appreciate what is offered by learning more about the computer.
David Meyer, a K-12 Special Education Teacher in Frederick County Public Schools in Maryland, will introduce some portion of computer science education via application or other means utilizing the csedweek.org website and other resources available for 5-10 minutes before each Math and Science class. Students will become engaged in the presentation by writing their own thoughts or opinions regarding what was presented and/or what they have learned/want to know more about, etc. The classroom wiki will be the resource vehicle for presentation of each daily installment.
Renee Ciezki, a Computer Science teacher and secretary of CSTA Arizona, will show a short CS video on the school’s morning announcements each day of Computer Science Education Week. She’ll also be talking to her students and asking them to come up with some other ideas.
Shyla Vire, Advisor of the Technology Student Association, will have students bring consoles and evaluate different games as well as have contests with different games. Prizes will be given during each session of class on campus.
Jenny Ronquillo, a Computer Science Teacher at Pontchartrain Elementary School in Mandeville, Louisiana, will be talking about how computers are becoming more and more the focus in education, higher education, and job related work. Students will research jobs that require computer skills. Students will share what they want to become when they grow up, and we’ll talk about how computers will play a part in any job they choose!
Etzel Brower, an Industrial Technology Teacher at Egg Harbor Township High School in New Jersey, will have students in his engineering class use customized computer interfaces to perform data analysis for scientific conclusion.
Sample abstract titles this year are hydrogen fuel cells, wind turbines, solar energy, biomass conversions, with geothermal evaluations and special emphasis on liquids, solids, gases, plasmas, bose-einstein condensate, and an unamed sixth state.
Specifics on the energy-mass equation discussed with unique emphasis on how write a program that calculates the amount of light energy distributed on electron-hole recombinations that emit light in the visible wavelength.Win Carter, a Marine Science Instructor with the Southern High School in Guam, is instructing students to search Marine Science topics, prepare an Insight and share discoveries and favorite sites with other computer based study students as well as classmates.
Marta Rosa, a Biology teacher in the Department of Education of Puerto Rico, will have 10th grade students present their Scientific Fair Projects in in a Science Symposium. They learn to use Power Point, make a public presentation and use hardware such as the smart board, display and computer.
Each student prepares their own scientific work in a presentation format learning to change and use the correct font size and color, background, insert pictures, tables and print the 3 slide handouts.
They present their work to the school community and parents.Brian Kenney, a Computer Science Teacher at Centennial High School, is going to host testing for the Microsoft Technology Associate Certification. I am hoping to get another 20 students certified!
Rebecca Dovi, a Computer Science teacher, will ask all of her computer science students to create a mini collage describing how they use computer science. I ask them NOT to do a PC/laptop, but try to think outside the box.
My favorite one from last year was a student that uses computer science to “talk to my brother in Afghanistan”Shannon Henderson, a Computer Science teacher at Kentwood High School, is helping students who are involved with the Microsoft XNA pilot curriculum to demonstrate their games/progress to other students during lunch.
Janet Slee, a non-CS teacher, will model computer programming through the following activity: Students use a bag of Legos to build an object and write down all instructions. Their partner will try and replicate the object using an identical bag of Legos using only the instructions. The students will be able to observe the difference between well written instructions and poorly written instructions.
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.
Oladapo Adefilola, a K-12 Computer Science Teacher at Regal College in Sagamu, Nigeria, is running a contest with students giving speeches on the importance of ICT/Computing in the development of Nigeria as a nation. Prizes shall be given for the best three speeches.
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.
Damian DeMarco, a Computer Science Teacher at Sea Coast High School in Revere, Massachusetts, is taking his class to visit the corporate headquarters of iRobot Corporation in Bedford, MA for dmac’s computer science students. Tour includes a visit to the iRobot museum and a robot demo.
Evelyn Williamson, a computer science teacher at Norfolk Technical Center, will host students from seven middle schools on a visit to our school giving them the opportunity to work with students in the Computer Information Systems and Certified Internet Webmaster classes for about 20 minutes on hands-on activities such as desktop publishing, web page creation in HTML, etc.
Charles Payne, a computer science teacher at Northern High School in Durham, North Carolina, will has placed an announcement and link on the home page of a wiki used in Durham, NC, to encourage collaboration among computer programming, AP Computer Science, and game design teachers in Durham, NC. This is a new wiki, with a small membership, but other teachers are welcome to join, and everyone is invited to use the materials and links.
Karen North, a computer science teacher at Piney Point Elementary School in the Houston Independent School District, will run an activity with students to program the beebot to go where they want it to go and to spell thanks as a way to engage students in the fun of computing.
