Project

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Project Georgia Computes!

• NSF BPC Alliancehttp//www.georgiacomputes.org

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Goal Impacting the Whole Pipeline At a
Statewide Level

• Partners
• YWCA
• Girl Scouts
• University System of Georgia
• 35 institutions of higher education2-year,
  4-year, and research universities
• Georgia Department of Education
• Center for Education Integrating Science,
  Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC)
• Evaluation

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Hypothesis Its about making it interesting

• Students do find computing and technology
  interesting.
• Its computing education that students find
  boring.
• Goals
• Lets show students a broad vision of computing.
• Lets show teachers how to use this vision in
  their classes.

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K-12 Creating Interest

• YWCA Afterschool Programs
• Girl Scout camps
• Activities
• Robots and Pico Crickets
• MIT Scratch
• CMU Alice
• Training trainers

• High School Teachers
• Join with Georgia Department of Education
• Workshops
• Summer training
• Media computation approach
• Revising state curriculum
• Establishing endorsement for CS

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Undergraduate Level

• Workshops with university faculty
• Media computation CS1 (Python and Java) and
  CS2,CS1 with Engineering examples in MATLAB,CS1
  with Robotics
• How to run a summer camp
• Help with adoption and adaptation
• Help with assessment

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Tying it together On-line space, Mentors ltgt
Graduate School
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Core Team

• Barbara Ericson and Maureen Biggers
• K-12
• Mark Guzdial and Lijun Ni
• Undergraduate faculty
• Amy Bruckman and Sarita Yardi
• On-line activities, HCI Summer Camp
• Tom McKlin and Becky Cocos
• Evaluation

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Getting started

• YWCA Afterschool program with Undergrad mentors
  (in last weekends AJC)
• Girl Scout activities (September Dad and me
  robotics, Saturday sessions, summer camps with
  Crickets)
• Undergraduate student mentors in high schools and
  
• Undergraduate faculty workshops (19 institutions
  involved so-far!), 3 new summer camps
• On-line activity focus HCI.
• Piloting as summer camp this summer
• Evaluation of activities, teacher impact,
  demographics cross-state started.

I dont think I want to be a programmer because
its too tedious and I dont think I could do
that sitting in front of a screen all day just
looking at the typed stuff, I dont do well with
that. -Maureen, 9th grade