Programs, Events and Ideas

This Web site provides details that will help you prepare for a career in the exciting field of computing.
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Dot Divas are the new face of computing. They believe in the potential of computing to redesign the future and build a better world. They’re young women with the power and passion to make a difference.
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Teacher Enrichment in Computer Science (TECS) workshops are designed to provide quality pedagogically-oriented programs and resources in computer science for teachers.
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As an organization dedicated to advancing computing as a science and profession, ACM takes pride in helping its student members prepare for their careers by ensuring that a wealth of information and resources are always available at their fingertips.
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CS/10K is an NSF-led project to develop an effective new high school curriculum for computing, taught in 10,000 high schools by 10,000 well-qualified teachers by 2015.
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Ensemble, a new NSF National Science Digital Library Pathways Project, is a national, distributed digital library and “community center” containing resources for all levels of computing education, including K-12 education.
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Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.
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Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.
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This Web site provides tutorials and sample course content so computer science students and educators can learn more about current computing technologies and paradigms.
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Computational thinking is a way of solving problems, designing systems, and understanding human behavior that draws on concepts fundamental to computer science.
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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources.
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A premier professional development conference that brings together the world’s best thinkers, practitioners, and more than 8,500 educators to share their passion for teaching and learning. This two-day experience for educators happens March 5-6, 2010 at the Hilton New York in New York City.
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