Mobile Computer Science Principles

Who should attend? High school teachers, curriculum directors, principals, school leaders interested in bringing computer science to their students.

Learn about:

• How to engage students in building mobile apps for Android devices using the blocks-based App Inventor programming language.
• The details of the College Board's new Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles (AP-CSP) course, which goes live in 2016-17.
• How the Mobile CSP course provides a mobile themed-implementation of the AP CS Principles course that is expected to be endorsed by the College Board.
• Summer 2016 professional development opportunities for Mobile CSP, including possible hybrid workshop in Western Massachusetts.
  

Applications for this PD are open now at: http://survey.mobile-csp.org/index.php?sid=62751

One of the conditions for the PD is that your school agree to teach the course in 2016-17. Teachers are encouraged to apply ASAP (even before the Info Session): http://mobile-csp.org/?q=participate

Presenters:

Ralph Morelli, Professor of Computer Science, Trinity College, Hartford, CT and Principal Investigator, Mobile CSP

Pauline Lake, Mobile CSP Teaching Consultant and Project Admin.

Parking at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center is convenient and free. There is a 15 space lot in front of the facility, and a 39 space lot on the opposite side of Bigelow Street. Either is just a short walk from the front door.