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Celebrate Computer Science Education

Join with your students in celebrating the power and heritage of Computer Science Education!

Spread the news of opportunities in Computer Science and share the excitement of our future brought to you by computer science.

Plan your celebration activities for Friday, December 7th

Here are some ideas to get you and your students started….

· Poster contest

· Fastest to debug a program

· Guest speakers from the Computer Science Field

· Essay contest about the life of Grace Hopper

·Recognize an accomplished school alumnus working in CS with a press release and certificate

· Invite past students in to "tell it like it is" about CS careers or college

· Collaborate with the lunch room to rename the items of each day's menu to some clever computer related term. For example: just for fun infinite loop spaghetti or Grace Hopper Pie

· Want more ideas or information?
Visit School Project Ideas and Register your School as a Participating School.

City of Orlando FL

Once again the city of Orlando, FL has recognized this coming Friday as Computer Science Education Day. Thank you Mayor Dyer for honoring this day in Orlando, FL.

Celebrating CS day at LHPS

Scott Faris who is the Managing Director of Corporate IP Ventures in Orlando, FL came to my 2nd period AP Computer Science class to speak to my students about his company and the technologies that he has worked with. Scott was very interesting and the students learned a great deal. The next speaker was Ms Hyland who runs an online clothing store talked to my web design students about her business and about the technologies
that they have used as well. Her husband came in later to answer any questions about the business.
Finally, Joe Healy from Microsoft Corporation and Bill Reiss from Tampa came in to talk about XNA Programming with my Honors Programming class. We invited engineering students to listen to the talks so
the room was crowded. Bill showed lots of demos of games he created. All in all, it was a fun day for my students and for me as well.

Countdown to Grace Hopper's Birthday

So what are you doing to celebrate?

At Lake Highland Prep in Orlando, FL, we'll be celebrating Computer Science Education in a couple of ways. I have some outstanding guest speakers that will be visiting our school and talking to our students. Scott Faris will be talking to my AP class about his company. Mrs. Frank who runs a very successful online business selling childrens clothes will be coming in to speak to my Web Design class. Finally, Joe Healy, from Microsoft will be bringing Bill Reiss from Tampa to speak to my Honors Programming class. Bill is an XNA developer and will be talking about game development to my students.
In addition, the Tech club will be creating a video commercial for that day.
Finally, we'll have posters set up around campus promoting computer science education. That's what we have planned so what will you be doing to promote computer science education at your school or business??

Valerie Bernauer
Technology Coordinator/Teacher K-8
Our Lady of Lourdes School
30 S. Downey Ave.
Indianapolis, Indiana 46219

Her school will be having a computer science poster contest that day.

Sharon Dearmon from Bishop Moore HS in Orlando FL

What will we do in honor of Grace Hopper Day?

0) every celebration needs food – sign up to bring in some snacks

1) We will listen to some computer science songs

2) We will have a contest to see who is the first to find the bug in a program

3) If anyone wants to write a song (perhaps Mr. Reyes?) in honor of Grace Hopper we can share that!

Coporate Sponsors

Need Coporate Sponsors - Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Students around the world will be working on activities to celebrate Computer Science Education. They will be working on various activites and corporate sponsors can donate employee time to speak to students, donate cash for prizes on student work, and dontate swag to give out to students.
Your company logo will be listed on the site. Please email bscarbeau@lhps.org

Thanks, Brian Scarbeau, Lake Highland Preparatory School, Orlando, FL

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Download a Proclamation

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Grace Hopper Park in DC

These come from Susan Canaga who recently visited Grace Hopper park in Washington, DC.

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Please register to sign guestbook and to receive more information.
Also, let me know if you would like to serve on a committee for this event.

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Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

Announcements

Anita Borg Institute Sets Plans for 2007 Grace Hopper Celebration - Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - Tuesday, October 17, 2006

The success of the recent Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) conference has led the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI) to make some changes to the event. GHC, which has been a bi-annual event since its beginning in 1994, will become an annual gathering in 2007, and ABI will also co-locate and bridge the conference with the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing conference. ABI has scheduled next year's GHC for Oct. 17-20, in Orlando, Fla., and it will follow the Richard Tapia conference, which is set for Oct.14-17. GHC is the largest technical conference in the world dedicated to women in information technology and computer science, and it is jointly sponsored by ABI and ACM.