CS4HS workshop this summer at the UW

The University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering department is running a workshop this summer targeted at high school or middle school teachers of math, science and computer science, and we'd love to have you join us!

The workshop's goal is to give teachers the knowledge and resources to incorporate computational thinking elements into their regular curricula, while giving them the opportunity to earn two University of Washington credits or 20 clock hours from WSTA.

Specifically, the CS4HS workshop aims to:

• Let you earn either 20 clock hours OR 2 university credits.
• Expose you to exciting examples of computer science operating in close relationships with other disciplines.
• Teach you the basics of computational problem solving and give you the vocabulary to relate these concepts to your students and your own subject material.
• Give you hands-on experience with visual and physical programming environments (No programming experience necessary)
• Broaden your view of computer science and the way it is shaping Washington's communities and people--and those of the entire world.
• Explore opportunities for you to help broaden your students' interest in computer science and dispel myths about what computer science is and is not.

We would love to welcome you to the workshop August 10th-12th. More details can be found at: http://cs4hs.cs.washington.edu/ and below.

Thank you for your interest--if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me!

Workshop detail:

• When:  August 10-12th, 2011 (Wednesday-Friday approximately 830am - 5pm)
• Where:  UW campus (Seattle)
• Cost:  $35 registration includes lunch for three days, light breakfast, reception, parking, housing for out of town participants,  clock hours or university credit
• Credit:  Two university credits granted by the University of Washington or 20 clock hours
• Who:  Teachers of high school and middle school math, science, or computer science classes.
• What:  Learn what the field of computer science has to offer and take home some ideas of how to incorporate computational thinking into your classes

Crystal Eney
Academic Advisor - Lead
Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington - Seattle
cs4hs@cs.washington.edu

April Programming Contest Results

First, thanks again so, so much to Amazon.com for being our official sponsor! Thanks to their support we were able to give away 10 gift cards ranging from $10-$50 as well as 4 kindles! Plus every participant got a tshirt and slap bracelet!

RESULTS OF THE CONTEST:

1st Place Overall: Garfield HS - Eamon Gaffney, Michael Rosenberger (programming in Python)
2nd Place Overall: Tahoma HS - Colin Wallace, Ashton Ohms (programming in Python)
3rd Place Overall: Garfield HS - Seth Vanderwilt, King Xia (programming in Python)

1st Place Novice: Garfield HS - Evan Barley-Greenfield, Nicky Kaman, Joel Jacobs (programming in Java)
2nd Place Novice: Kamiak HS - Tom Overton, Jarret Gaddy (programming in Java)
3rd Place Novice: Issaquah HS - Jeremy Tickman, Matthew Lam, Steven Yang (programming in Java)

At the contest, I accidentally announced 3rd Place Novice incorrectly :( I am very sorry about this mistake. Issaquah HS actually took 3rd Place scoring the same number of points as the Tahoma team I announced; however, Issaquah earned their points 15 mins faster than the Tahoma team.

Here are the detailed results for all teams

Links:
- Contest packets and data files
- Sample solutions [in python] [in java]

Thanks so much to everyone who came out to participate, judge, or support the contest. Hopefully we'll see you back next year for our December 2011 and April 2012 contests!