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MyCS workshop

July 15-19, 2013

A summer workshop for middle school educators organized by Harvey Mudd College and supported by both Google's CS4HS initiative and the National Science Foundation project CE21:1240939

MyCS's Goals

To increase the CS content and skills available to middle-years (middle-school and early high-school) students and teachers

To provide content that make both the student and teacher experience of CS as empowering as possible.
To complement whatever pedagogical approach and personal-interaction style a teacher chooses to use.

To deepen students' and teachers' identification with CS and sophistication with the discipline.

To contribute as wide a variety of hands-on projects as possible, in order to "hook" as diverse a group of students and teachers as possible.
To build context not only from current technologies, e.g., programming languages and consumer software, but from the fundamentals of the discipline, i.e., organizing data, algorithmic reasoning, and procedural composition.

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

We are in HMC's Sprague Library, which is just to the east of our Olin building.
For mapping purposes, the Olin building is at 1250 N Dartmouth Ave. Claremont CA 91711.

MyCS-specific map

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

Parking

Parking is free and available on Dartmouth Ave. south of 12th St. and on 12th St. itself. The map above shows those streets, which are very close to the Sprague building.

Where do I show up?

Enter the first floor of the Sprague Memorial Building, "Sprague." We will have some breakfast items starting at 8:30am, and we will dive into the workshop at 9.

Schedule

MyCS 2012 Page
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.