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January 29, 2010
Stevens CS hosts Fourth Annual High School Computer Science Workshop
The Computer Science department at Stevens Institute of Technology hosted the Fourth Annual High School Computer Science Workshop at Stevens Institute of Technology on January 29, 2010. More than thirty teachers and seventy students attended the workshop, as well as participants from Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Corporation. Micheal Kölling from the University of Kent gave a demonstration of the Greenfoot system, which is a graphical programming environment for developing Java applications, intended to help high school students get started in programming. Michael's talk emphasized the fun and creative aspects of programming, including an example of emergent behavior in a simple application modeling ants foraging for food. A wide-ranging panel discussion afterwards with the audience of teachers covered diverse topics in pedagogy for computer science in high school education. Panel participants include Michael Kölling, Alfred Thompson from Microsoft, Don Slater from Carnegie Mellon University, and David Klappholz from Stevens Institute of Technology. Students were provided with lab demonstrations and hands-on activities involving security, vision and robotics, during the panel discussion.
More information is available at the workshop Web site:
http://www.stevens.edu/compsci/partners/Workshop-January-29-2010.html
For further information, contact:
Professor Dominic Duggan
Department of Computer Science
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Tel: 201-216-8042
E-mail: dduggan@stevens.edu
Web: http://www.dominicduggan.org
