Middle School

Oregon Game Project Challenge (OGPC) is looking for volunteers to help put on its 11th annual Main Event on Saturday, May 12th at Western Oregon University in Monmouth. Last year, over two hundred students on fifty-seven teams participated in the event and providing a great experience to those students requires lots of help. The biggest […]

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 […]

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. […]

From our allies at OregonASK, the Statewide Afterschool Network:  Join us in Salem on October 22nd for the Oregon Afterschool Conference! We’ve got tracks in Technology, STEAM, Cultural Conversations and more. Whether you are looking for ways to engage more underserved youth in your program, or would like to hear more about Building a K-5 Computer […]

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. […]

NCCE — the National Council for Computer Education — has its roots in Oregon. They will be in Portland at the Convention Center for the Largest Education Conference in the Pacific Northwest, March 22-24, 2017.  Conference organizers have invited and encouraged OCSTA members to submit presentation proposals — 50 minutes, 2 hours, or exhibitor showcases. […]

Target Corporation Field Trip grants (<=$700) closes Oct 1, 11:59 pm Central Time for field trips February 2017 – December 2017  funds for transportation, tickets, food, resource materials, supplies education professionals employed by public, private, charter K-12 school swith 501(c)(3) or 509(a)(1) tax-exempt status show student learning Apply online. There’s always the science museum and […]

Here’s a chance for students to create an app and strut their stuff in Oregon and to be on display in the US Capitol. In brief: one to four students, not yet graduated from high school, no minimum age, two of whom are in the participating representative’s district app written after November 2, 2015 your […]