[Yr11 Information Technology] CS4HS Workshop and NCSS Challenge

[Fay Richardson]

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/titl
e/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/titl
e/ncss-challenge> 

 

 

 

 

Fay Richardson

 

Fay Richardson

Senior Project Manager

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