CS4HS Chicago 2010

Location: UIC campus, near downtown Chicago.  See campus map detail for locations.

Space limited to the first 30 registrants.

Topics

• 1. Current computer science curricular tools that both instruct and capture students' imagination and attention. Both Scratch and Alice will be provided, with participants choosing one or the other. Training will alternate between 20 minute lectures and 40 minute hands-on labs. The intention is to provide enough immersion that you will be able to subsequently use these in your own classroom. We will also experience some content from CS Unplugged.

  2. Pathways into computing careers in the Chicago area.

  3. Regional Universities offering CS (Loyola, DePaul, IIT, UIC, St. Xavier, ...)

  4. Community Colleges feeding into subsequent university CS programs (COD, Oakton, ...)

  5. News you can Use: Cool tools that help in classroom CS education.

  6. Programming environment tools for Java (Eclipse, Interface-building in NetBeans)

  7. Free Software (PortableApps, GIMP, Kompozer, Open Office, Ubuntu)

  8. Best-practices examples from area University and High School teachers (Python, Nand-to-Tetris)

Schedule

See session details page to help you choose between concurrent sessions and to give you more information and links from each session.

Wednesday 6/23

Sessions held in UIC Computer Science labs, SEL 2260. See campus map detail for locations.

           8:30 -  9:00      Registration and breakfast

Thursday 6/24

Sessions held in UIC Student Center East (SCE), Room 605.  See campus map detail for locations.

           8:30 -  9:00       Registration and breakfast