Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson

Alfred Thompson's blog about teaching computer science at the K-12 level. Alfred was a high school computer science teacher for 8 years. He has also taught grades K-8 as a computer specialist. He has written several textbooks and project books for teaching Visual Basic in high school and middle school. Alfred is the K-12 Computer Science Academic Relations Manager for Microsoft and is trying to be the Microsoft Education Blogger.

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:21 AM

NATIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGE

Something for middle school science classes perhaps: The Siemens Foundation, Discovery Education and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) have partnered on this unprecedented initiative to educate, empower and engage students, teachers and

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 7:06 AM

Online Programming Contest for Canadian Students

The DWITE programming competition for Canadian high school students is ramping up again for the year. From their About page : The primary purpose of the DWITE Online Computer Programming Contest is to provide an avenue for Canadian secondary school students

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Friday, July 04, 2008 12:09 PM

Imagine Cup – Student Environment & Technology Competition

The 2008 Imagine Cup finals is currently being held in Paris France. This international competition involves tens of thousands of university students around the world. This year’s theme is "Imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment."

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Filed under: education, fun, Imagine Cup, Channel 8, Contests, blogs, environment

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 4:58 PM

Above & Beyond Awards - Massachusetts

The Mass Technology Leadership Council is a great organization of people and companies in the high technology industry in Massachusetts. One of their big interests in supporting teachers who are using innovation in teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering

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Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:45 AM

A Whole Pile of Programming Competition Questions

I was looking through the web site for the HP Code Wars competition the other day and came across the page where they list the questions they have used in this annual high school programming competition since 1999. (The previous years questions – including

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Filed under: Visual Basic, C#, C++, Computer Science Education, Projects, education, fun, Contests

Monday, June 09, 2008 3:44 PM

Dream Build Play 2008

Well I see over at the XNA Team Blog they have announced the latest Dream Build Play competition for people creating XNA Games for the XBOX 360. In Dream-Build-Play 2008 you can build your dream game to compete with other game developers around the world.

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Filed under: XNA, Game Programming, Programming, fun, Contests