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I am going to start doing more of this type of post since some conversations with Grace Hopper students
Don't talk much. Have a point to make, make it and offer to answer questions.
Use your class time for students to do computer science and dig them out of their holes.
Let the students talk.
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Have had an absolutely fabulous time and am going next year.
Might even be persuaded to speak.
Everyone and everything was wonderful.
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The bad thing about teaching CS for 20 years is that it is hard to find things you haven’t seen.
Since BYOB is the newest thing I have done, and since I was comfortable in this room, I stayed.
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good keynote on diversity in computing
Had a problem with a blanket statement about immigrants. Not all want their girls to go to college.
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Had to be really hard for the presentation, but they set up 9 tables with representatives from Google, Microsoft, Tapestry, etc who have opportunities and resources for teachers.
A great way to get the word out.
Got to see Pat Phillips!
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The first session is on Lego Robotics.
The first speaker is a former mom and was preaching to the choir for me as it was a sales pitch for FIRST.
The second speaker is a former competitor and mentor is talking about teaching programming.
she actually wrote an AI program for the NXT. Picture is of her code that she wrote as a teenager.
I got napped and had a conversation during the third presentation but she also talked about Lego Robotics.
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I arrived in Portland Oregon at about 10:00 am their time. Met up with a colleague who teaches CS on Austin.
We separated at the convention. I checked in, went through the exhibit hall and have met a ton of really cool women. I want to hug all the college girls, they are all so cute and cool and earnest.
Had lunch with the Systers which was really great, but what happens with Systers stays with Systers.
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Apparently I and another friend were NOT invited to a meeting. Honestly I don’t care, as I got what I wanted without being there — the best kind of meeting EVER. I feel bad for him.
<HAPPY DANCE>
My school gets to be the pilot of the Games Programming class that has been included in the TEKS that were approved last summer.
We will put it on the choice sheets and if it makes, it will be the beginnings of the district course. Will it make <evil grin> The fun part is that all my old CS students can take the course, as it will have a different PIMS code.
See, best kind of meeting. I didn’t have to go and I got what i wanted.
I’m having an excellent job year, even though my personal life sucks (see http://www.kweave.org/blog for the details.
Our school won a grant from the Junior League of Dallas which will allow us to have a second robot.
I was and am proud to have been a Civil Air Patrol Cadet. I joined both CAP and Army JROTC when living in Detroit and going to school at Osborn High School on 7 mile (yes, it was worse than 8 mile).
I won the Distinguished Cadet award and still have the medal, ribbon and medal box that was presented to me.
When we move to Jackson, MS, I was made the Battalion Commander and continued in Civil Air Patrol.
I was also a National Merit Semi-Finalist.
I applied to the Coast Guard Academy, Air Force Academy and West Point, and received a nomination from Thad Cochran to West Point. I checked out, as I would have been in the second class of women, but instead won a full four scholarship to the Air Force Academy.
Unfortunately the Air Force had to many officers when I graduated, and my father was terminally ill, I was offered a resignation which I took.
Just some cool stuff which could be looked up if you found a copy of “Who’s Who in High School Students, 1978”.
And yes, I am a nerd and was not well liked in Mississippi. However, I had a really fun time with the people in Detroit, and miss that group to this day.
