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CSTA NE (Huskers) October Minutes

Hello, everybody

Here are the notes for today’s meeting.

Date: October 26, 2015: 7:14 PM – 8:00 PM

Place: Lincoln Southwest

Present: Leen-Kiat Soh, Scott Burns, Lloyd Sommerer, Scott Handelman, Lisa Davis, Bill McClung (Wesleyan), Amy Chittenden (Everett Elementary)

  1. Introduction of attendees
  2. CS Education Week Event (report by Leen-Kiat & Lisa)
    1. We will need to have a CSTA booth
      1. Scott Burns plans to be there.
    2. Things are moving along.
  3. NETA (April 21-22, 2015 @ CenturyLink Center, Omaha, NE)
    1. Sessions (November 13th)
      1. ACTION ITEM: Scott Burns will e-mail local chapter about sessions.
      2. ACTION ITEM: Scott Burns will e-mail Derek of Omaha to talk about a joint session
  • Proposal Idea 1: Scott Burns: Documenting CS Education Week Event
  1. Proposal Idea 2: Lloyd: Comparing and Contrasting different CS courses at Lincoln, NE
  2. Proposal Idea 3: Kent talking about Code.org K-5 Partner School District
  3. Proposal Idea 4: Lisa: Experience with teaching Google’s CS First and Club
  • Continue with an Information Booth. Scott Burns will man the Information Booth.
  • Idea: Joint dinner for both chapters.
  1. For our sessions, PPT slide at the end: mention our joint dinner/joint session and encourage people to attend
  2. ACTION ITEM: Scott Burns will complete the NETA-contract form
  1. Google’s CS First course for third graders (by Lisa)
    1. Maybe fourth/fifth graders would be more appropriate
    2. Materials are complete (down to minutes)
      1. Whole box for 30 kids
      2. 8 one-hour sessions
  • Storytelling
  1. Engaging, fairly self-guided
  2. After-school clubs — but can be for regular lectures
  1. Girls Who Code in Lincoln, meeting this Wednesday 4:00 p.m., The Non-Profit Hub @ 1420 P Street (near Lincoln Children’s Museum) (Jessica Versaw and Lana Zumbrunn)
    1. On how to launch local chapters for grade 6-12 girls
  2. NCWIT Aspirations in Computing award
    1. Deadline is November 4th, 2015
    2. Link is at: https://www.aspirations.org/participate/high-school
  3. Programming I (by Lloyd)
    1. on Debugging skills
    2. Good programmers more likely to do this correctly. But not all of them got it right.
    3. Allowing students to ask others to peer-review.
    4. Allowing students to learn about their mental models learning this.
  4. A Sphero robot with tons of sensors
    1. Bluetooth, Blockly
    2. $130
  5. Next Meeting:
    1. November 16th, 2015, Location: Lincoln Southwest; 7:00 PM, B-Wing Forum

Thanks,

Leen-Kiat Soh

 

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