UDo.CS 2011

A Summer Workshop for High School Computer Science Teachers


Tuesday, July 26 - Thursday, July 28, 2011
University of Delaware
Computer and Information Sciences
Newark, Delaware

AGENDA

Tuesday July 26, 2011 @ 208 Gore Hall

Time Topic Facilitator
12:00 Socializing and Logistics Lori Pollock and Mel Jurist and Lisa Marvel
12:30 Welcoming Lori Pollock
1:00 Icebreakers Robert Luciano, Pocono Mountain East High School, Swiftwater, PA
1:45 Keynote
Jan Cuny National Science Foundation, CS Principles, and National Lab Day
2:45 Break/Housing
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3:00 Gender and Computing
Joanne McGrath Cohoon
4:15 Special Topics in CS: The Brains behind Watson, the Jeopardy Winner
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, IBM Research Labs
5:15 CS Unplugged
Lynn Lambert, Christopher Newport University

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 at Grottos, 45 East Main Street, Newark

6:00 Dinner
7:30 Scavenger Hunt

Wednesday July 27, 2011 @ 208 Gore Hall

Time Topic Facilitator
8:15 Breakfast/Socializing Lori Pollock and Mel Jurist and Lisa Marvel
8:45 Logic Groups Robert Luciano
9:00 Rethinking CS1 Jim Cohoon, University of Virginia
10:30 Break
10:45 Active Learning Strategies
 Terry Harvey, University of Delaware
Noon Lunch

1:00 Recruiting for Diversity
Joanne McGrath Cohoon, University of Virginia
2:30 Break
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2:45 CSTA, K-21 ACM Curriculum, Advocacy
Chris Stephenson, CSTA Executive Director
3:30 Special Topics in CS: From Morse Code to Gigabit Ethernet
Lisa Marvel, Army Research Labs

Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at The Deer Park, 108 West Main Street, Newark

6:00 Dinner ---

Thursday, July 28, 2011 @ 208 Gore Hall

Time Topic Facilitator
8:15 Breakfast/Socializing ---
8:45 Promising Practices
Tammy Pirmann, Springfield Township High School, CSTA-PASCE Phila Chapter President
9:15 Special Topics in CS: Helping Science in the Cloud
Michela Taufer, Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Sciences, Univ of Delaware
10:30 Break

10:45 Paired Programming
and accompanying Exercise 		James Atlas, Assistant Prof, Computer and Information Sciences, Univ of Delaware
Noon Lunch

12:30 Brainstorming
Chris Stephenson
1:30 Using Pico Boards with Scratch
Mel Jurist, Joanne Cohoon
2:15 Adjourn
Lori Pollock, Mel Jurist, Lisa Marvel
  • Computer and Information Sciences  •      Newark, DE 19716  •   USA
    Phone: 302-831-2712  •   E-mail: udo-cs@cis.udel.edu