SuperQuest 2016 Info

Teachers teaching teachers – Summer 2016

Come join your peers in free, small group workshops around the state, diving into topics led by veteran tech teachers and industry professionals. All courses three days unless otherwise noted. 

Where will we be? Click on the links for more info:

• Wilsonville, June 22-24
• Wilsonville Symposium, June 25
• West Salem, June 27-29 ** registration live **
• Redmond, July 13-15 ** registration live **
• Pendleton, July 20-22 ** corrected from 20-23; registration live **
• Newport, July 27-29 ** registration live **
• Eugene, August 3-5 **registration live **
• Southern Oregon, August 16-18 ** registration live **

There is no cost to you for these workshops, thanks to a grant from ODE. We’ll line up a variety of lunchtime speakers from education, industry, the State of Oregon. We’ll feed you a complimentary continental breakfast and lunch. You’ll earn PDUs (contingent on filling out an event evaluations survey) and have time to talk face-to-face with other teachers. Graduate Credit is optional for some workshops. – Licensed grade 7-12 Oregon teachers have the opportunity to earn a stipend for PLC participation.

What can you learn?

• Game Design – no experience necessary. Get your students making games instead of just playing them.
• App Development – make all that phone time a learning experience.
• LEGO Robotics – mostly aimed at grades 4-9, in either classroom or afterschool, whether to learn science or compete as a team.
• FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Robotics – for late middle school and high school educators and coaches, covering tech and team topics.
• Vex Robotics – for high school educators, particularly those with Project Lead The Way experience.
• Digital Design and Manufacturing – FabLab? MakerSpace? 3D Printing? Laser Cutting? Bring it on!
• Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Dual Credit – keep your star students learning, organize self-guided study, tap into web tools, earning credentials.
• Code.org – instead of one Hour of Code a year, how about all year long? Focused on K-5, but applicable for middle school
• Teaching Computational Thinking — The heart of computer science is breaking complex problems into a series of instructions so simple even a computer can do them. Learning to think in terms of computational problem solving is a critical part of understanding CS and the algorithms that are reshaping our world.
• Agile Software Methodology — use industry-proven techniques to deliver software on time, to specification.
• Java Programming in Minecraft — use the lure of creative changes to the popular game to inspire programming.
• Web Coding — build or refine your web design/development course or unit of study; enhance your own front-end development skills; and join our statewide community of web design/development teachers and afficionados.
• App Inventor — No experience necessary. Learn MIT’s App Inventor for Android devices (or computer-based emulator). Focus on middle and high school.
• Game Design and Development (to be confirmed)
• Making the Most of Mobiles — Ideas, tips, webtools, and apps for using iPads or other mobile devices in the classroom. Please bring your own mobile device, a laptop, and charging cables.
• Chromebooks in Your Classroom — Focus on integration, management, student engagement with specific project examples.
• Gamify your Classroom!!! — Use motivational gameplay to create a collaborative, creative classroom environment. Design a gamified unit.
• Integrating Game Design and Development into your Curriculum — Learn from an industry professional; no experience necessary.
• Intro to CS — another class from an industry professional; no experience necessary
• Intro to Web Design — no experience necessary, see how curriculum aligns for Dual Credit.
• Creative Coding — one day intro, aimed at elementary
• Introduction to Arduino — try out a multipurpose programmable logic controller: robots? wearables? light show?

More details on Courses Here.

These pages are being updated frequently as we confirm places, courses, and people. Please contact Jo via jo@oregoncsta.org if you find errors or broken links. Thanks for your patience!

Questions? Contact Randy and Janis via superquest@oregoncsta.org