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How will you mark CS Education Week?
To get ideas and to find out more, go to www.CSEdWeek.org
To take the pledge to do something, go to http://www.csedweek.org/forms/sign/pledge-step1
For some great ideas about how to support CSEdWeek, download What Can You Do to Support Computer Science Education Week? (Word doc).
UMass Amherst's In the Loop covers CAITE's support of CSEdWeek!
Resources for CAITE-supported CSEdWeek Activities:
CAITE logo for web
CAITE logo for print
CS Ed Week logo
W-9 Form
Media permission form, English
Media permission form, Spanish
Participant survey, English
Participant survey, Spanish
Student, Teacher, & Advisor Resources:
 Visit ITforU.org, your portal for IT and CS education resources. You and your students can browse listings for all CS programs offered at public, higher-ed institutions across MA, and find internships, financial aid info, and a collection of inspiring profiles and information.
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Massachusetts Celebrates
Computer Science Education Week
December 4-10, 2011
Computer Science Education (CSEd) Week, December 4-10, 2011, is a nationwide effort to raise awareness of the impact of computing and the importance of computer science education. Endorsed by Congress in recognition of Grace Hopper's birthday on December 9, 1906, CSEdWeek is a call to action to share information and offer activities that will elevate CS education for students at all levels. Thousands of students, teachers, parents, and members of industry will take part in CSEdWeek events this year, and we hope that you will, too.
CAITE supported the following activities:
Cambridge, UMass Boston: Women In Science Club Field Trip to Google's
Boston HQ, 12/9
Fall River, Bristol CC: JQuery Mobile Activity, 12/9
Haverhill, Haverhill HS: Android App Inventor Mobile App Development, 12/5-12/9
Haverhill, Haverhill HS: So You Think You Can Dance? For Middle Schoolers, 12/6
Haverhill, Northern Essex CC: CS/IT Jeopardy Game, 12/7
Marlborough, AMSA Charter School: CSEdWeek Parent Night, 12/8
Milton, Milton HS: Design Your Own App & Trip to Google HQ, 12/5, 12/7, 12/9
Reading, Reading Memorial HS: Middle School Outreach Day, 12/7-12/8
West Newbury, Pentucket HS & Haverhill HS: "I Lift Things Up and Put Them Down" Cross-Platform Robot Challenge, 12/7, 9am-10:45am
Worcester, Mass Academy of Math & Sciences, CS/IT Nightly Challenge, 12/5-12/9
CAITE also helped organize Mobile Boot Camps at Northern Essex Community College and Hampshire College. These workshops took place on December 2, 2011.
Pledge Your Support for CSEdWeek
Getting involved in CSEdWeek is easy. Join teachers, students, parents, and industry in a pledge to support or participate in a CSEdWeek activity. Massachusetts educators and students represented the state well in 2010, when 45 percent of pledges came from Massachusetts and California, and Marlborough and Shrewsbury, MA were two of the highest-pledging cities in the nation. Help Massachusetts gather even more local support for CSEdWeek this year by completing the pledge form online at http://www.csedweek.org/forms/sign/pledge-step1.
Organize CSEdWeek Activities
There are plenty of creative ways to celebrate CSEdWeek at your school, campus, or club.
Last year, CAITE-supported CSEdWeek activities included a workshop on programming Super Cricket robots, a talk by the inventor of the "digital assistant" for middle and high schoolers, and a field trip to Microsoft's New England Research and Development Center in Cambridge. A complete list of activities that CAITE supported is available here, or you can draw inspiration from events from across the country on the CSEdWeek site.
For resources and ideas on organizing your own event, use the CSEdWeek Event Planning Toolkit.
You can find even more great ideas for CSEdWeek activities and actions in the CSTA Voice CSEdWeek issue online at the CSTA website. This is an especially useful resource for educators who don't have a lot of time or funding to spend on a CSEdWeek activity—it includes ideas for projects that take as few as fifteen minutes or a couple hours. Download a copy of the issue directly here (PDF).
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