WeTeach_CS Summit 2019

#IBMCyberDay4Girls promotes cybersecurity awareness among middle school girls. Learn how and why IBM volunteers created this one-day program. Educators will leave this session equipped to engage with IBM volunteers to deliver #IBMCyberDay4Girls in its entirety or may be inspired to create a program of their own using IBM volunteer activity kits.

In this hands-on session, computer science teachers will work in teams and use design thinking to create video game elements for specific super-heroes or villains. These elements may range from buildings, gadgets, vehicles, clothing, and inventions. Participants will use the Extraordinaries Design Studio Pro Kit throughout the session and will take away design thinking methods for effective ideation that could be applied to narrative, character, and world or level design in video or analog games. Takeaways will include guiding design thinking principles that can be used independent of the Extraordinaries' kit.

In this panel I will discuss what the state is doing to help high school and college students engage in cybersecurity career opportunities while improving the public’s general awareness of cybersecurity issues. Some specific points of interest are the Annual SANS Girls Go CyberStart Competition and the DIR Cybersecurity PSA competition.

NOTE: Please bring a laptop, tablet, or chromebook to this session.
Have you ever wanted to learn about drag-and-drop programming but don’t know where to start? This hour-long introductory course is for you! We will be starting at the beginning with creating accounts and crafting simple programs. By the end, you will have the skills to make a simple video game (and bring what you've learned back to your school!). Perfect for teachers of grades 3 through 8.

CALLING ALL STEM TEACHERS: WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
You are invited to join a Listening Session to share your experiences and perspective as a STEM teacher. We want to hear your opinions, ideas, struggles, and successes to help inform and share insights around STEM education and programs with 100Kin10 as we work to shine a national spotlight on the need for great STEM teaching.

Are you curious about expanding your role as a advocate for computer science education? Come to this session to learn about local and national opportunities to better understand and speak out about expanding CS education. Your knowledge, experience, and expertise can drive the CS for All movement.

Can you figure out the math to help your Jedi escape the Death Star? Wanting to try out some STEM with computer science and math together in your classroom? Here you will see some ideas for integrating math and Sphero to engage and motivate students to learn and apply the important concept of multi-step equations. Participants will get to experience a galactic adventure with a Star Wars themed Sphero math maze and receive copies of all activities to use in their classroom. Activities can be easily built upon to increase coding and computer science in your STEM classroom with Sphero. Come prepared to learn, have fun, and escape from the Galactic Empire’s most revered space station. Download the Sphero Edu app from Google Play or the App Store prior to the session to be able to use your own device to aid in your escape (optional).