HOW CAN WE ENGAGE A BROAD RANGE OF STUDENTS TO DEVELOP COMPUTER
SCIENCE TALENT?
CODE THE WAY IS A NEW, LOCAL NON-PROFIT THAT HAS GROWN OUT OF
SAFENET'S SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM. THAT PROGRAM LEADS TEAMS OF HIGH
SCHOOL STUDENTS TO DEVELOP CUSTOM APPLICATIONS FOR OTHER LOCAL
NON-PROFITS. OVER THE PAST 2 YEARS, THEY'VE DEVELOPED AN EFFECTIVE WAY
TO ENGAGE STUDENTS IN MEANINGFUL, HIGH QUALITY WORK AND NOW LOOK TO
BROADEN THE POOL OF TALENT THAT IS ABLE TO PARTICIPATE. YOU'LL GET AN
OVERVIEW OF THE CODE THE WAY PROGRAM AND HELP US UNDERSTAND WHERE
TEACHERS/SCHOOLS SEE THE MOST VALUE, THE BARRIERS TO REACHING MORE
STUDENTS, AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLLABORATION AND ALIGNMENT WITH OTHER
EFFORTS.
COME SHARE IDEAS WITH YOUR COLLEAGUES AT PUBLIC, PRIVATE, AND CHARTER
SCHOOLS FROM ACROSS GREATER MILWAUKEE, AS WELL AS SOME FOLKS OUTSIDE
OF K12 WHO OFFER AN INTERESTING PERSPECTIVE ON THE TOPIC.
AGENDA
5:30 – 6:00 Grab something to eat and drink, say hello
6:00 – 6:30 Introductions/Code the Way program overview
6:30 - 8:30 Let's explore how to get more students engaged in CS
Food and beverage will be provided. There is no charge for
participation but space is limited!
FEATURED PARTICIPANTS
Among others, you'll have a chance to talk with:
RYAN BENNETT — SENIOR CONSULTANT, SAFENET CONSULTING
Ryan is a software engineer with a decade of experience at various
corporations including running a Portland-based start-up from his
bedroom for 2 years. Ryan is the Program director of Code the Way. As
a self taught developer who was fortunate enough to be mentored early
on, he interested in bringing this learning opportunity to as many
students as possible.
DENNIS BRYLOW — ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, COMPUTER SCIENCE, MARQUETTE
UNIVERSITY
Dennis' work centers on building tools to help those who design,
build, or teach complex systems, with particular focus on Embedded,
Real-time, and Interrupt-Driven Systems, Programming Languages and
Software Engineering. He has been the principal investigator on just
over $3 million of extramural grant funding from the National Science
Foundation, Cisco, Google, Intel and others. His ongoing projects
include:
* Embedded XINU, a culmination of both his research and teaching
interests;
* NSF-funded REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) site,
"Computation Across the Disciplines"; and
* The PUMP-CS Project, which is working to increase the number of
qualified high school computer science teachers in the upper Midwest
and metropolitan Milwaukee in particular.
KAREN GREEN — COMPUTER SCIENCE COACH, MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
RYAN OSTERBERG — COMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHER, BROOKFIELD CENTRAL HIGH
SCHOOL
Ryan has been teaching computer science for 22 years. Throughout his
career he has worked to provide his students with the best computer
science learning opportunities. He's recently begun to bring in
current work place practices into my classes in an effort to create
real-world learning experiences. Working as part of the Code the Way
team, he has brought real-world computer science learning and
application to over 50 students.
MARK ZACHER — MILWAUKEE REGIONAL MANAGER, TEALS
TEALS (Technology Education and Literacy in Schools) is a Microsoft
Philanthropy that supports high schools in offering computer science
classes. TEALS pairs teachers that are not yet trained and/or
confident enough to teach computer science and match them with
volunteers from the industry that can co-teach the class with them.
There are three models of volunteer support and four different
curricula TEALS offer depending on the needs of the particular teacher
or district. School recruitment for the next school year happens in
the Fall and volunteer recruitment happens in the Spring. Our goal:
computer science in every high school. TEALS is currently working with
7 area schools
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The Collab Lab will be held at Ward 4, 333 North Plankinton Avenue,
Milwaukee, WI. Space provided courtesy of:
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