The Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) alliance is offering a free workshop in the San Jose area to help start and run financially self-sustaining computing summer camps. This workshop is open to college and university faculty or staff, non-profits that run camps at colleges and universities, and high school computing teachers.
If you attend personally, you will be eligible to apply for up to $4999.00 in “seed” funds for equipment. If you can’t attend personally, you can attend remotely using Blackboard Collaborate (free trail webinar software) with a browser and a connection to the Internet. There are limited funds to reimburse for up to $100 in expenses for travel to the workshop for people who live more than 30 miles away. To apply, please fill out an application at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HTRASC121314
Barbara Ericson from Georgia Tech will be leading this workshop. The Institute for Computing Education (ICE) at Georgia Tech has been running non-residential computing summer camps since 2004. These camps are financially self-sustaining and the camps get statistically significant changes in student’s attitudes towards computing and in knowledge of computing concepts.
Learn:
- What to consider when starting or expanding computing summer camps to 4th – 12+ grade students.
- Equipment/tools that can be used in camps.
- Details on how to run, advertise, and evaluate the camps.
- How to apply for the “seed” money and how the applications are evaluated.
When: Saturday, December 13th from 9am to 3:30pm.
Where: Santa Clara University, Vari Hall, Wiegand Room http://www.scu.edu/map/14/Vari-Hall