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