Events

In addition, to the tools used in school, students also participate in technology events outside of school. Some events that staff and students have participated in include.

• UMass Amherst's Women in Engineering Day . This event provides a keynote speaker, lunch discussion and several breakout sessions where student collaborate with hands-on STEM related activities. A great opportunity to hear from industry professionals, college professors and students.
• the Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center. A state of the art-green data center that provides tours for interested schools and students.
• Fitchburg Programming Competition. This bi-yearly high school programming competition provides opportunities for teams of up to 4 students. Teams work together to solve problems by writing and testing code. Teams are scored based on correct responses and the time required to complete the problems.
• The Hour of Code. Groton-Dunstable has participated in this yearly event since it's inception. After the first year which ran at the high school, high school students from our Exploring Computer Science course as well as some additional volunteers stepped up and became district ambassadors. Since then, teams of student ambassadors continue to work with the younger grades when we celebrate this event during National Computer Science Ed Week.
• Digital Cafe. The Digital Cafe events were designed so that students and staff could showcase their works and how technology impacts life and learning. We always have an amazing group of students with ideas to share.
• The Technovation Challenge. Another great opportunity for young women entrepreneurs. From scratch teams of up to 5 young women work together to design a mobile app while covering all of the other bases needed to build a start up. It's much more than coding. Think business plan, logo design, marketing research, surveying your audience and then some.