Welcome to Georgia Computes!NSF Site Visit, December 5, 2008

Who we are

• An NSF BPC Alliance focused on improving computing education across the entire state across the pipeline:– K-12 students– Secondary Computing teachers– Undergraduate Computing teachers

• Our alliance includes Georgia Tech (College of Computing and CEISMC), Georgia Department of Education, University System of Georgia, Girl Scouts, YWCA.– Growing with new partnerships with Morehouse

College and local games developers.

Georgia Tech

CEISMC

School of Interactive Computing

ICE

University System of Georgia Schools

Columbus State

University

Albany State

University

Kennesaw State

University

… (30+ times)

Morehouse College

High Schools across Georgia

Milton High

School

Centennial High

School

AACCD

Mailing lists, State

Dept of Ed.

CAITE

Individual connections

… (300+ times)

YWCA Atlanta

Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta

Individual connections

Websites, Wikis

Georgia Tech

CEISMC

School of Interactive Computing

ICE

University System of Georgia Schools

Columbus State

University

Albany State

University

Kennesaw State

University

… (30+ times)

Morehouse College

High Schools across Georgia

Milton High

School

Centennial High

School

CAITE

… (300+ times)

YWCA Atlanta

Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta

Organization of Morning

• For each of our three levels of focus (K-12, secondary teachers, undergraduate teachers):– 20 minutes presenting what we do at that level,– 10 minutes on assessment results in that area,– 15 minutes discussion.

• 8:45-9:30: K-12• 9:30-10:15: Secondary

– 10:15: Break• 10:30-11:15: Undergraduate• 11:15-12:15: Poster Session of Projects

Organization of Afternoon

• 12:15-1:30: Lunch– Site visit team goes to GT Hotel.– Everyone else, lunch here.

• 1:30-2: Future directions and responding to questions.

• 2-3: Brainstorming and Discussion– What’s working? What’s not?– How would you advise us?