There is a Latino Tech Fest Saturday May 19th at the Intel Jones Farms Campus Conference Center from 8am to 5pm. Everyone is invited, not just Latinos. There will be a Professional Track and a High School Track –  the events expects to serve over 400 professionals and 100 high school students for a day of career development, diversity and networking. Register HERE […]

The Connectathon Challenge invites educators to their Student Showcase on May 17th from 5pm-7pm at The Arts & Communications Magnet Academy in Beaverton. At the event, teams of students will be presenting their innovative technology based solutions for improving the lives of people with diabetes. Register now for the Connectation Challenge: Diabetes Student Showcase The […]

Do you use Scratch in your classroom? Interested in meeting up with others to share tips and learn in an informal setting? Check out the PDX ScratchEd Meetup on May 12th from 11am-2pm. RSVP is required, see the event site for more details.

This summer marked the 2nd year for the Northwest Advanced Programming Workshop (NWAPW). Like the inaugural 2016 NWAPW, students with advanced computer science skills were recruited and recommended by their teachers to participate in this summer’s free project-based workshop. This year 48 new high school students were recruited to work in teams of three on […]

I missed posting last week’s update – I’ll blame having to prepare my taxes 😉 – so this update will be for the last 2 weeks. On Saturday, April 8 the Oregon Game Project Challenge (OGPC), sponsored in part by the OregonCSTA, held its annual Main Event at Western Oregon University in Monmouth. This year’s […]

It’s been a quiet week for the OregonCSTA as we, like all Oregon educators, have enjoyed the spring break.  Things will pick up next Saturday, April 8 when the Oregon Game Project Challenge (OGPC), sponsored by OregonCSTA, holds its annual Main Event at Western Oregon University in Monmouth, OR. For 2017, the tenth annual event, […]

Just a quick update about recent past and upcoming events.  On Saturday, March 18 we held our 1st professional development event of 2017. The 2017 SuperQuest Spring Conference & High School Programming Contest was a combined event held at George Fox University in Newberg, OR.  I will post a recap of those events later this […]

Continuing the theme from yesterday’s blog post, Upcoming OCSTA Training Events and Workshops, I think it might be good to provide a similar update about upcoming OCSTA and partner events and workshops for students.  As mentioned in yesterday’s blog post, the 2017 High School Programming Contest will be held on Saturday, March 18th at the […]

Subscribers and newcomers to the OCSTA blog have probably noticed that things have been a little quiet around here lately.  It has been almost two months since our last blog post. That is about to change, starting with today’s blog post about next month’s upcoming Computer Science (CS) education events. One of the biggest CS […]