Next chapter meeting this Saturday, May 19

Our next chapter meeting is this Saturday, May 19, from 1:00 -- 3:00 back in our usual venue, the UW CSE building.

We're not sure exactly what we'll discuss (Stuart says there isn't that much to report from  this year's SIGCSE conference), but it's sure to be a good time.

See you there.

CS&IT Conference - July, 2012

The Computer Science & Information Technology (CS&IT) Conference is the only international conference specifically developed for K-12 computer science educators. This year the conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Irvine on July 9th and 10th, 2012, in Irvine, CA. To see the agenda, register for the conference, or reserve your reduced housing rate at the Hyatt, visit www.cstaconference.org.

UW CSE Inspirational Teachers

Two of our chapter members recently received a nice recognition.

Hélène Martin and Lauren Bricker were fêted by the UW CSE department, having been nominated by current undergrads in that program as secondary teachers who inspired them in high school or community college classes.

Read more about the award and the event here: UW CSE “Inspirational Teacher” dinner.

Congratulations, Hélène and Lauren!

April 2012 Programming Contest Results

Another successful competition has come and gone! We had 27 teams participate from 12 schools, 12 judges from industry, and 10 advisors. 

Amazon.com was our official sponsor! They provided us with many judges, 17 pizzas from Zeek's, tons of snacks and breakfast items, drinks, shirts for everyone, gift cards, and two kindles! Plus they let us use their facilities and provided us with a Tech Talk! We are very thankful for all their support of our contest.

Contest Winners:

Novice - 1st Place - Roosevelt High School - Team "x4x1x9xHeAdShOt" - Galen Caldwell, Kevin Ault, Grant Price

Novice  - 2nd Place - Roosevelt High School - Team "java.lang.Objects" - Kilian Folger, Sam Dixon

Novice - 3rd Place - Interlake High School - Team "while(true) WIN" - Alex Boulton

Advanced - 1st Place - Tahoma High School - Team "Q" - Colin Wallace, Ashton Ohms

Advanced - 2nd Place - Garfield High School - Team "By (Ge|J)orge" - Derrick Gasaway, George Matter, Jorge Bretzke 

Advanced - 3rd Place - Lakeside School - Team "QTPi" - Nat Mayer, Karisma Gupta, Chinmay Nirke

The rest of the results can be found here.

Contest Problems, Student Data, Judges Data:  Available here

Spring Contest Lineup

Registration is now closed for this Saturday's PS CSTA Spring Programming Contest, sponsored by Amazon.com.

26 teams from 12 Puget Sound area high schools will be participating.

Read about the lineup here: http://goo.gl/0CtvL.

Spring Programming Contest

Registration is now open for the PS CSTA Spring Programming Contest !

Please join us on Saturday, April 28, for this great event. Register your team by April 22 to participate.

Amazon.com is sponsoring the contest and it will be held at their South Lake Union Campus.

See the Programming Contests page of our site for full details.

After the AP Exam

You've prepped them for the AP exam and many of them have sat for the test. Now there's between 4 and 8 weeks left of the year - what *do* you do with your students?

Lauren Bricker will give a short presentation on what they do up at Lakeside and show some example projects that have been done. We can follow up with a discussion and brainstorming session of other ideas.

This Saturday's monthly meeting will be (NOTE the CHANGE) from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm and in Room 503 of the Paul Allen Center, due to the NCWIT awards that afternoon.

Hope to see you there!