Social discussion of CS in K-12

[George Reese <reese AT illinois.edu>]

The hourly forecast has the rain clearing up an hour or more before 6 PM. 
So let's plan to meet at Cowboy Monkey. 
I have a small agenda of items to discuss. 

- Phone call with Code.org - Thanks to Maya's outreach, she, Kerris, and I
had a brief discussion with Amy Hirotaka, the State Policy and Advocacy
Manager at Code.org. There are more discussions in the works that will most
likely happen on a twice-monthly basis.

- Pechakucha - Kerris suggests doing one. Great idea. 

- Judah Christian's desire for Scratch training. Dan Ditchfield has been
making the contacts and there seems to be considerable interest there. Of
course, our first priority is the public schools but Judah's interest is
certainly worth being responsive. 

- #CTexchange - what next? Minsoo and Bruno Rodrigues have been exchanging
emails and Bruno's students have put up some Scratch apps (most in
Portuguese) about Brazil. 

See you at 6. -George


George Reese
Office for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (MSTE)
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Champaign, IL 61820
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