Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity for Professional Development offered by the Oregon CSTA — Teachers teaching teachers. Learn about continued opportunities for receiving a stipend to join a Professional Learning Community (PLC), or how you can host a customized Pop-Up SuperQuest event at your school. Meet and network with other educators and CS professionals. […]

Our friends at the Frontier Oregon STEM Hub will be conducting two free robotics workshops in the next month: A FIRST Lego League (FLL) Robotics training for coaches and volunteers this coming Saturday, September 17 at the Malheur ESD (9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m).  More information and a registration link can be found here. A FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) […]

Promised updates to previous OCSTA event presentations are up: BEC STEMConnect 2016 Impact and Stakeholder reports posted.  Summarized: Chris Stephenson from Google on “And Now the Hard Work Begins: Achieving the Promise of Computer Science Education”, original slides included. Summarized: Exploring CS and NCWIT resources for inclusive CS education with Joanne Goode, UO, and Jane Krauss, NCWIT. […]

Welcome back to School! Here’s a short slate of dates for student competitions and one for classroom funding. September 5 — Allen Distinguished Educator DIY Guidelines grants for K-12 classrooms (<=$1000) applications close. More info from Allen Distinguished Educators  Blog post summarizing the program FIRST(tm) Robotics programs have a two part registration: nationally, with FIRST, and locally […]

Except, of course, for the afterparty — a backlog of resources to share, and connections to be made, and processes to polish so that next summer’s SuperQuests are even more timely, useful, and well-run. We’re planning on having an informational email on the Virtual Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) for the coming academic year to be […]

The last, and second largest SuperQuest of Summer 2016 will be at the Table Rock Campus of Rogue Community College from August 16 – 18. Southern Oregon has been an enthusiastic partner in SuperQuest for years, and put on an event with distinctly local expertise — many courses are only offered at Southern Oregon. Register […]

SuperQuest Eugene wrapped Friday, August 5, but not before we got a great talk from Joanna Goode, one of the co-authors of the Exploring Computer Science Curriculum, and her occasional colleague and co-champion of inclusive pedagogy, Jane Krauss. They talked about Equity and Inclusion in Computer Science. Joanna, from the University of Oregon’s School of […]

Chris Stephenson‘s SuperQuest presentation “And Now the Hard Work Begins: Achieving the Promise of Computer Science Education” was live-posted from SuperQuest in early August and I have now added the promised summary/scaffolding. Chris Stephenson is the Head of CS Education Programs at Google, the former founding Executive Director of ACM’s Computer Science Teacher Association, and a Eugene resident. […]

Wednesday: Terrel Smith, 37 year veteran of the classroom and President of the Oregon Computer Science Teachers Association — T will talk about the grant funding this workshop, and additional supports for increasing the number and quality of CS education programs in Oregon, in and afterschool. Thursday: Chris Stephenson, Head of CS Education Programs at Google, […]

One of the educators in Melissa Kessler’s App Inventor class in Pendleton teaches preschool — and she came out of the class confident that she can use ScratchJr this fall, to help the kids she works with have fun, learn, and have some control. No more App specific classes this summer, but there are Game Development […]