2012 - 2013 Meeting Schedule

Dear chapter members,

At our August meeting, we developed a plan for this year's chapter meetings. It promises to be another great year of CS education discussions.

As usual, the meetings will be on Saturdays, hosted by the UW CSE Department in the lovely 6th Floor Commons room of the Paul Allen Center.  However we have changed the start of our meetings to 10am so they do not take up the middle of your Saturday.  The new meeting time is 10am to Noon for presentations and then Noon till about 1pm for socialization and networking.

The detailed schedule is posted on the chapter website (www.pscsta.org) under the Meetings tab. A summary version is below. BLUE items are student event days, rather than teacher meetings. We also have a Google Calendar version on the Meetings web page.

Hope to see everyone at the September 22nd and other meetings.

Cheers,

Earl B.

Sep 22, 2012: Attracting and Retaining Students, Ashley Myers

Oct 20, 2012: Processing, Hélène Martin

Nov 17, 2012: Mobile Device Programming, Earl Bergquist

Dec 15, 2012: WINTER PROGRAMMING CONTEST, PS CSTA Team

Jan 12, 2013: Building a CS Program of Study: Beyond Intro & AP CS, Brett Wortzman

Feb 9, 2013: STEM Out!, PS CSTA Team

Mar 23, 2013: SICSCE Report and Exploring CS & CS Principles Update, Stuart Reges

Apr 27, 2013: SPRING PROGRAMMING CONTEST, PS CSTA Team

May 18, 2013: Physical Computing, Hélène Martin

Jun 22, 2013: End of Year Wrap Up & Social, All

Next chapter meeting this Saturday, May 19

Our next chapter meeting is this Saturday, May 19, from 1:00 -- 3:00 back in our usual venue, the UW CSE building.

We're not sure exactly what we'll discuss (Stuart says there isn't that much to report from  this year's SIGCSE conference), but it's sure to be a good time.

See you there.

CS&IT Conference - July, 2012

The Computer Science & Information Technology (CS&IT) Conference is the only international conference specifically developed for K-12 computer science educators. This year the conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Irvine on July 9th and 10th, 2012, in Irvine, CA. To see the agenda, register for the conference, or reserve your reduced housing rate at the Hyatt, visit www.cstaconference.org.

UW CSE Inspirational Teachers

Two of our chapter members recently received a nice recognition.

Hélène Martin and Lauren Bricker were fêted by the UW CSE department, having been nominated by current undergrads in that program as secondary teachers who inspired them in high school or community college classes.

Read more about the award and the event here: UW CSE “Inspirational Teacher” dinner.

Congratulations, Hélène and Lauren!

April 2012 Programming Contest Results

Another successful competition has come and gone! We had 27 teams participate from 12 schools, 12 judges from industry, and 10 advisors. 

Amazon.com was our official sponsor! They provided us with many judges, 17 pizzas from Zeek's, tons of snacks and breakfast items, drinks, shirts for everyone, gift cards, and two kindles! Plus they let us use their facilities and provided us with a Tech Talk! We are very thankful for all their support of our contest.

Contest Winners:

Novice - 1st Place - Roosevelt High School - Team "x4x1x9xHeAdShOt" - Galen Caldwell, Kevin Ault, Grant Price

Novice  - 2nd Place - Roosevelt High School - Team "java.lang.Objects" - Kilian Folger, Sam Dixon

Novice - 3rd Place - Interlake High School - Team "while(true) WIN" - Alex Boulton

Advanced - 1st Place - Tahoma High School - Team "Q" - Colin Wallace, Ashton Ohms

Advanced - 2nd Place - Garfield High School - Team "By (Ge|J)orge" - Derrick Gasaway, George Matter, Jorge Bretzke 

Advanced - 3rd Place - Lakeside School - Team "QTPi" - Nat Mayer, Karisma Gupta, Chinmay Nirke

The rest of the results can be found here.

Contest Problems, Student Data, Judges Data:  Available here

Spring Contest Lineup

Registration is now closed for this Saturday's PS CSTA Spring Programming Contest, sponsored by Amazon.com.

26 teams from 12 Puget Sound area high schools will be participating.

Read about the lineup here: http://goo.gl/0CtvL.

Spring Programming Contest

Registration is now open for the PS CSTA Spring Programming Contest !

Please join us on Saturday, April 28, for this great event. Register your team by April 22 to participate.

Amazon.com is sponsoring the contest and it will be held at their South Lake Union Campus.

See the Programming Contests page of our site for full details.