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 […]

Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) has finished and kudos to those of you who participated in any of the many events around Oregon.  The final tally as of 7:00pm PST today, is 478 HOC events in Oregon out of 43492 in the US and 162,436 worldwide!  Do to some extreme weather (freezing rain and snow) […]

Congratulations to Mark Gullicksen, Oak Grove Elementary School, in Albany. He got some “good STEM news” which he thinks “is a direct benefit from my involvement with OCSTA’s professional development opportunities that I have participated with as an educator. This Monday, I was humbled to learn that I was selected as one of 20 teachers, […]

Congratulations to Dr. Chris Stephenson, Eugene resident and resident Google guru of CS Education. Chris, the former (and first) executive director of the national Computer Science Teachers Association, has been awarded the Association of Computing Machinery’s Presidential Award, in recognition of her landmark work in CS education advocacy. And, because Chris is Google’s lead on […]