CS4HS at Harvey Mudd College

July 9-13, 2012

A summer workshop for middle school educators organized by Harvey Mudd College and supported by Google's CS4HS initiative.

Resources

Goals

• To increase the computer science available to middle-years (middle-school and early high-school) students
• Provide professional development for local and remote teachers to empower them to use the ECS curriculum, either as a stand-alone class or as part of existing classes.
• Emphasize the importance of computational thinking and skills, beyond specific technical material such as typing or technology.
• To deepen teachers' understanding of CS and computer scientists' understanding of teaching to the benefit of each group.
• Engage hands-on with the computer science that the MyCS curriculum investigates
• Incorporate feedback and suitable pedagogy in order to improve the materials' reach
• Support teachers, local and remote, in delivering MyCS/ECS courses and materials

Contact

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, feel free to email us at dodds@cs.hmc.edu and/or mike@cs.hmc.edu.

Logistics

Directions

A Google map with the Olin Center and available parking marked: We are here!

MyCS-specific map

This campus map shows the available parking, the Olin Science Center, and the Hoch-Shanahan Dining Commons in detail.

Parking

There is parking available south of Olin Center, along Platt Boulevard south of campus, and along Dartmouth Avenue south of twelfth street.

Where do I show up?

Enter the first floor of the Sprague Memorial Building, "Sprague." We will be present to direct you to the workshop from 8:30-9:00am.

Schedule

Monday

• Morning session 1 (9:00—10:20)
• Welcome
• MyCS and its curriculum: What is computing? What is a computer?
• Web scavenger hunt
• Coffee Break
• Morning session 2 (10:35—12:00)
• Introduction to Programming
• Music in Scratch
• Lunch (12:00—12:45)
• Afternoon session 1 (12:45—2:15)
• Computer Deconstruction
• Afternoon session 2 (2:30—4:00)
• Movement in Scratch
• Pen in Scratch
• Variables
• Bugs and Debugging

Tuesday

• Morning session 1 (9:00—10:20)
• Problem Solving Process
• Rook Jumping
• Brick Breaking
• Let's Make a Deal!
• Coffee Break
• Morning session 2 (10:35—12:00)
• Coordinate Plane
• Goto in Scratch
• More debugging
• Lunch (12:00—12:45)
• Afternoon session 1 (12:45—2:15)
• Binary
• Beepin' and Boopin'
• Lego encoding
• Afternoon session 2 (2:30—4:00)
• Costumes in Scratch
• Storytelling

Wednesday

• Morning session 1 (9:00—10:20)
• Sorting and Searching Algorithms
• Sorting Networks
• Coffee Break
• Morning session 2 (10:35—12:00)
• Ifs in Scratch
• Sensing
• Helicopter Game
• Operators
• Lunch (12:00—12:45)
• Afternoon session 1 (12:45—2:15)
• Artificial Intelligence: Turing Test
• Game of Life
• Afternoon session 2 (2:30—4:00)
• Broadcasting in Scratch
• Receiving in Scratch

Thursday

• Morning session 1 (9:00—10:20)
• Web and society
• Coffee Break
• Morning session 2 (10:35—12:00)
• Basic HTML
• RGB Values
• Basic CSS
• Recipe Page
• Lunch (12:00—12:45)
• Afternoon session 1 (12:45—2:15)
• Safety and Security
• Afternoon session 2 (2:30—4:00)
• Javascript
• Forms
• Password analyzing

Friday

• Morning Meeting (9:00—10:00)
• Wrap up and discussion

• Super-secret extra-umptious fun-tivity extrava-palooza!


MyCS 2011 Page


Acknowledgments

The organizers and Harvey Mudd College thank Google and the National Science Foundation for their generous support of this workshop and the broader MyCS (and ECS) efforts.