[Year 12 IT Apps] CS4HS Workshop and NCSS Challenge

Thu Jul 12 16:19:32 EST 2012

it was basically an invite only event

as I wrote to Geoff off list, VITTA made an error in sending that out about the CS4HS.

Steven Bird runs it. He invites people. 
Let's all get over it and move on

The NCSS stuff - go and have a look at it and think about it

Andrew

Andrew Shortell
CRC Melton
Vitta CoM member

On 12/07/2012, at 2:37 PM, Robert Hind wrote:

> C'mon David!
>  
> One email from Steven Bird on 2 July followed by Fay's yesterday is hardly an avalanche of information :-)
>  
> Robert Hind (Semi-retired) OOF, GOM, COF
> Ashwood and Traralgon
> robert at yinnar.com
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Howard, David
> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 1:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] CS4HS Workshop and NCSS Challenge
> 
> Nope, emails have been around for a while about it.
>  
> David
> St Michaels Grammar School
>  
> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Hutchison, Geoffrey G
> Sent: Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:00 PM
> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] CS4HS Workshop and NCSS Challenge
>  
> Am I missing something? Is this the first time this workshop has been flagged? On the day?
> 
> Geoff
> McGuire College
> 
> 
> On 11/07/12 11:38 AM, "Fay Richardson" <fay at vitta.org.au> wrote:
> 
> 
> 1. For Victorian secondary IT teachers who would like to develop Computer Science modules and to contribute to the development of a new VCE CS subject, this workshop could be for you.
> 
> CS4HS workshop
> University of Melbourne, 11-12 July 2012
>  
>  
> Organised by 
> Steven Bird (Melbourne), 
> Bernd Meyer (Monash), 
> Paula Christophersen (VCAA)
> 
> CS4HS is an initiative sponsored by Google to promote Computer Science and Computational Thinking in the secondary curriculum.
> 
> The goals of this workshop are: 
> (i) to update Victorian secondary IT teachers on current developments in the field of Computer Science;
> (ii) to develop Computer Science modules that can be used in the secondary curriculum;
> (iii) to contribute to the development of a new Computer Science subject in the Victorian Certificate of Education; and 
> (iv) to raise awareness of secondary educators about how computational thinking underpins the overall secondary curriculum.
> 
> You are invited to participate in the 2012 CS4HS workshop at the University of Melbourne.  This invitation is extended to the participants of the 2011 workshop, plus other interested secondary educators, subject to our limit of 25 participants.  The workshop is fully catered.  Participants from outside Melbourne can apply for travel subsidies and accommodation, subject to the limits of our budget.
> 
> For more information go here <http://www.vitta.org.au/teachers/asset_id/69/cid/5/parent/0/t/teachers/title/cs4hs-workshop> .
>  
> 
> 2. For your students
> 
> NCSS Challenge
> 
> The Challenge is unlike any other programming competition because we will teach you how to program as we go along rather than expecting you to be an expert coder already. However, if you are a seasoned coder, we have something for you too because the problems will range from relatively simple through to mind-bendingly hard.
> For 5 weeks starting on Monday 6th August, 2012 and running until Sunday 9th September, 2012, we will release a set of notes containing the information you will need to complete the week's programming challenges. In 2012, there are three streams to the Challenge:
> ·         the beginner's stream, which doesn't assume any knowledge of programming and introduces the Python programming language;
> ·         the intermediate stream, for students who have either have some prior programming experience or have some prior experience with the Python programming language; and
> ·         the advanced stream, for students who know Python and want harder problems.
> 
> For more information go here. <http://www.vitta.org.au/students/asset_id/48/cid/9/parent/0/t/students/title/ncss-challenge> 
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