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Schedule (Fall 2012)

The workshop will take place on October 26 and 27, 2012 in Northern Virginia at the NRC facilities (http://www.nvc.vt.edu/). The workshop is hosted and sponsored by the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech and by Google's CS4HS program.

Click the session title to see a description of the session and links to resources for the session. Not all links are there yet, we will have them available by the time of the workshop.

Friday October 26th, 2012
5:00 PM Sign in, refreshments
5:30 PM Introductions to three working groups; Dinner
Group 1. Android (using Sophia)
Group 2. Python/Media Computation
Group 3. Middle School
8:00 PM Breakup for the evening
Saturday October 27th, 2012
8:30 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM Brief introduction for each group (30 mins for each).
For resources, see Friday's session descriptions.
  • identify homework that will be developed
  • identify technology to be used
  • setup goals for the day
10:30 AM Break up by group, work on assignments
Noon Lunch - continue group work over lunch
1:30 PM Back to group work
3:00 PM Break
3:15 PM Back together as a single group.
Each group presents in 15 minutes what was prepared/accomplished.
4:00 PM Evaluation of workshop, plans for future workshops, dissemination
4:30 AM Breakup for the day