WELCOMETeacher Computing Workshop

Wayne SummersTSYS School of Computer ScienceColumbus State University--------------------------------June 10, 2014

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Did you Know 2014

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THE ChallengeJobs vs. GraduatesThe PipelineThe NEED

Solutions & Resources

Q&A

Challenges in the U.S.The number of Computer Science majors dropped 40-50% nationwide between 2001-2008The percentage of women has dropped to about 10%

From a high of about 40% in the early 80sNot One Girl Took The AP Computer Science Test In Some States

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CS/IT Crisis

The missing 70% (AP demographics)

Troubling statistics

http://code.org/promote

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Computing / IT in Georgia54% of projected job openings could be filled by computing degrees. AP Computer Science Test-takers 2009: 743Degrees Earned in Computer and Information Sciences 2007-2008 Academic YearAssociate's: 818Bachelor's: 1168 TOTAL: 2511TOTAL: 2511Master's: 467Doctoral: 58Projected Workforce Indicators (2006-2016)

Average Annual Computing Job Openings: 4660466010-year Percent Change in Computing Jobs: 24.8%10-year Change in Number of Computing Jobs: 24,050

http://www.ncwit.org/edjobsmaphttp://www.ncwit.org/edjobsmap

Challenges for the U.S.Projections of 46% job growth over the next 10 years!

By 2018, there will be 1.4 million computer specialist job openings.US universities will have generated enough graduates to fill about 1/3 of these openings.

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Careers at Google, Amazon, and Microsoft8 min 43

The NEED

Professionals in computing say that you should like:

•Problem solving•Working with others in a team•Being creative•Problem solving•Problem solving

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Solutions / ResourcesComputer Science Teachers Association

CS Principles - www.csprinciples.org

code.org : CODING: What most schools don't teach (5 min)

Hour of code - http://code.org/learnEducator resources-http://code.org/educate

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Solutions / Resources

THE HOUSE STUDENT APP CHALLENGE

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE

Hackathon

Activ8 Summer Camps

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Some Quick Facts about CS Students

Over 400 undergraduatesOver 100 graduate students

Increasing student research opportunitiesVariety of internship and coop opportunitiesStudy-abroad opportunitiesACM Student Chapter

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Academic Programs in Computer Science

CS vs. IT vs. ISBS Computer Science - Applied TrackBS Computer Science - Games TrackBS Computer Science - Systems TrackBS Information TechnologyBS Information Technology (online)Combined BS/MS Computer ScienceComputer Science Teaching Endorsement

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Academic Programs in Computer ScienceBachelor of Science in Computer Science

Software Systems• designed for students who plan on continuing to a

graduate program in Computer Science or who want a more traditional and theoretical degree

Applied Computing• less theoretical with a focus on mainframe

programming and web programming

Games Programming• designed for students who plan on continuing to a

graduate program in Computer Science or who want to work in the gaming, modeling, and simulation industry

Minor Computer Science (18 semester hours)04/20/23

Collaboration with Industry Internships for students Collaborative Research in:

o Security / CyberForensicso Mobile App Developmento Wireless Networking / Pervasive Computingo Modeling and Simulations (Serious Games)o Software Developmento Data Visualizationo Data Warehousing / Data Mining / Data Analyticso Legacy Code Translation

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Computers in the 1940s

How many computers in the picture on the left?

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Employment for CS/IT Graduates 2011-2013 2011-2012 2012-2013

UNDERGRAD Degrees employedgrad school % Dgrs employed

grad school %

CS - Systems 4 4 100% 4 1 25%Applied CS 12 12 100% 15 14 93%CS - Games 10 10 100% 5 4 80%IT 9 9 100% 10 9 2 90%

35 35 11 100% 34 28

CSU (UITS)CSU (UITS) 7 GaTechGaTech 2 TSYSTSYS 13 MedSchMedSch 1TSYSTSYS 9 CSUCSU 9 Graffix AddixGraffix Addix 2 CSUCSU 1AFLACAFLAC 4 OmegaFiOmegaFi 2OmegaFiOmegaFi 2 AFLACAFLAC 1Graduate AssistantGraduate Assistant 2 Allure Global SolutionsAllure Global Solutions 1Dean Evans (CO)Dean Evans (CO) 1 Boeing (SC)Boeing (SC) 1Gentiva Health SrvcsGentiva Health Srvcs 1 NewPoint Comm. ChurchNewPoint Comm. Church 1CACICACI 1 Mad MobileMad Mobile 1WTVMWTVM 1 Accenture-DCAccenture-DC 1consilium1consilium1 1 Apollo Education GroupApollo Education Group 1Eyes Wide games (ATL)Eyes Wide games (ATL) 1 zell3dzell3d 1defense industrydefense industry 1 U.S. ArmyU.S. Army 1BlueCross/BlueShieldBlueCross/BlueShield 1 CSCCSC 1

Progress (ATL)Progress (ATL) 1 Med SchoolMed School 133 ?????? 6

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Q & ADr. Wayne SummersTSYS School of Computer ScienceColumbus State Universitywsummers@columbusstate.eduhttp://csc.columbusstate.edu/summers

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