One-Day Activities for K-12 Face-to-Face Outreach

Daniel D. Garcia, Wei Ding, Joseph Cohen, Barbara Jane Ericson, Jeff Gray, Dale F. Reed · 2015

The recent successes of Computer Science Education Week and code.org's Hour of Code have meant that more K-12 students than ever are being given an authentic, engaging and eye-opening exposure to the wonders of computer science. There are resources aplenty to help high school and college faculty with outreach. These range from easy-to-learn, open-ended programming environments (Scratch, Alice, Snap!), to online coding challenges (code.org, Lite-bot), to non-computer activities with live performances (CS Unplugged, cs4fn), to having the entire outreach experience delivered "in a box", thanks to NCWIT.

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