After the AP Exam

You've prepped them for the AP exam and many of them have sat for the test. Now there's between 4 and 8 weeks left of the year - what *do* you do with your students?

Lauren Bricker will give a short presentation on what they do up at Lakeside and show some example projects that have been done. We can follow up with a discussion and brainstorming session of other ideas.

This Saturday's monthly meeting will be (NOTE the CHANGE) from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm and in Room 503 of the Paul Allen Center, due to the NCWIT awards that afternoon.

Hope to see you there!

March Meeting

Greetings, all.

Our March meeting will be held on Saturday, March 17, in the Paul Allen Center for CSE at the UW.

BUT, this month, we'll meet from 11:00 am until 1:00 pm and in room 503, because there is a ceremony at 1:00 pm for the Washington State NCWIT award winners that some members will attend.

The topic of the meeting, facilitated by Lauren Bricker, is Advanced CS Projects, or ideas for projects that can be used in AP CS classes after the AP exam.

Also note this will be a lunch meeting and we're asking everyone to brown-bag it.

Hope to see everyone then.

STEM Out! 2012

click to download PDF

PSCSTA will be hosting the 3rd annual STEM Out! Girl's Event, this time led by Amazon Hoppers (Women's Group at Amazon.com).

This event is to encourage girls to explore Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math careers! It's a FREE event and more information/registration can be found here:

pscsta.org/p/stem-out.html

Please help us spread the word and encourage your girls to participate!!

You can download a PDF of a flyer by clicking on the image at left or this link: Stem Out 2012 Flyer.

Teen online behaviors

Interesting piece from the NY Times about the research of Danah Boyd on teenage online behavior:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/fashion/danah-boyd-cracking-teenagers-online-codes.html

(curiously cataloged in the "Fashion" section because it appeared in the NYT "Sunday Styles" section of the print edition)

NO January Meeting

Tomorrow's meeting (Jan 21) is cancelled due to bad weather, bad timing, and bad luck.

For one, the FIRST Robotics FTC State competition is tomorrow and will exclude some of the very people who could really contribute to the conversation. Greg is stuck on a island without power, and probably lots of people are still recovering from Snowmageddon.

See you next month!

January Puget Sound CSTA Meeting

Our next meeting of the Puget Sound Computer Science Teachers Assocation will be this Saturday, January 21st at the University of Washington. This weekend's topic is Robotics, with a roundtable discussion of options for teaching robotics and participating in competitions. Please bring any information you have to share.

We will be meeting in Room 503 on the 5th floor of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, from 1 to 3 pm. Free parking is available in the garage and in parking lots near the building.

Greg Kilpatrick

Coursekit

I read something recently about a fairly new course management software platform called Coursekit.

Today I see that they have received some VC funding: http://goo.gl/GE6Ed.

Its avowed simplicity was appealing, and I have been meaning to check it out. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with it?