Professional development workshops are traditionally scheduled in the Spring and Summer. As information about upcoming events becomes available, the announcement will be posted here.

In the meantime, if you are organizing a professional development event for computer science teachers, please email the following information:

Date of Workshop
City and State
Name of workshop
One sentence description
Email for contact person
Event URL

to l.clayborn@hq.acm.org.


Date of Workshop: February 25, 2012
City and State: Austin, TX
Name of workshop: Bootstrap: Programming Videogames with Algebra
Description: Bootstrap is a free curriculum that teaches students to program their own videogames, using a purely algebraic programming language! Bootstrap is built on state mathematics standards, ensuring that time spent programming will reinforce what students see in math class. Discover how Bootstrap can be integrated into your math or CS classroom!
Contact: philip.schielke@concordia.edu
Event URL: alumni.concordia.edu/bootstrap

Date of Workshop: April 21, 2012
City and State: Boulder, CO
Name of workshop: Bootstrap: Programming Videogames with Algebra
Description: Bootstrap is a free curriculum that teaches students to program their own videogames, using a purely algebraic programming language! Bootstrap is built on state mathematics standards, ensuring that time spent programming will reinforce what students see in math class. Discover how Bootstrap can be integrated into your math or CS classroom!
Contact: jessica.feld@colorado.edu
Event URL: ecsite.cs.colorado.edu/welcome/bootstrap-2012/

Date of Workshop: June 12-13, 2012
City and State: Lebanon, IL
Name of workshop: CS4HS - McKendree University
Description: This workshop is aimed at teachers in every discipline who are looking for exciting content to introduce to their junior high and high school students. Join teachers from across the region as we explore curricular and extra-curricular activities that you can use to engage students in computer science and computational thinking.
Contact: nawhite@mckendree.edu
Event URL: http://lance.mckendree.edu/cs4hs

Date of Workshop: June 18-22, 2012
City and State: Pittsburh, PA--Carnegie Mellon University
Name of workshop: Alice 2.2 Workshop
Description: Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming. This workshop will explore the Alice 2.2 programming environment as an effective and engaging tool to introduce students from middle school through college level to programming and Computer Science. We will also explore how Alice 2.2 can be used in multi-disciplinary K-12 classrooms.
Contact: dslater@cmu.edu
Event URL: web.campusservices.cmu.edu/conferences

Date of Workshop: June 25-29, 2012
City and State: Pittsburh, PA--Carnegie Mellon University
Name of workshop: Alice 3 Workshop
Description: Alice 3 is a tool uses 3D graphics and animations to introduce introductory programming students to fundamental programming concepts and transition them to Java. This workshop will explore the Alice 3 programming environment as an effective and engaging tool for students in a Computer Science 1 or Advanced Placement course in Java. Alice 3 will come out of beta this summer and be ready for use in classrooms this fall. This workshop will explore the instructor course materials that are being developed, also for use in fall classes.
Contact: dslater@cmu.edu
Event URL: web.campusservices.cmu.edu/conferences

Date of Workshop: June 25-29, 2012
City and State: Pittsburh, PA--Carnegie Mellon University
Name of workshop: Alice 2.2 Workshop for Spanish-speaking populations
Description: For the first time, we are presenting a workshop for teachers interested in using Alice with a Spanish-speaking population. The workshop will be presented primarily in English, though the primary presenter speaks fluent Spanish and will be able to clarify concepts and answer questions in both Spanish and English. Workshop attendees will receive two copies of the latest version of Alice 2.2, one in English and one in Spanish. All instructional materials used in the workshop will have an English and a Spanish version.
Contacts: dslater@cmu.edu, jacobo@cs.cmu.edu
Event URL: web.campusservices.cmu.edu/conferences

Date of Workshop: June 25-27, 2012
City and State: Sandy, UT
Name of workshop: Teaching of introductory programming concepts using AppInventor
Description: Would you like a new way to introduce students to programming? Thinking about jumping on to the mobile development craze? Then I have a summer workshop for you. It is a three day workshop held in Sandy, Utah. We will be stressing the teaching of introductory programming concepts using AppInventor. We will be covering how to introduce topics in computer science and programming using the visual environment. We will also go over how to load these apps onto an Android device and the benefits of using a graphical language.
Contact: cody.henrichsen@gmail.com
Event URL: www.tinyurl.com/appinventorclass

Date of Workshop: June 25-29, 2012
City and State: Cary, NC
Name of workshop: SAS Programming 1 for High School
Description: Join us for the SAS Programming for High School Summer Workshop and learn to teach SAS Programming to your students. You will receive all instructional materials, assessments and software.
Contact: Julie.Petlick@sas.com
Event URL: http://support.sas.com/learn/ap/hs/index.html#t1

Date of Workshop: July 16-18, 2012
City and State: Sandy, UT
Name of workshop: Using Java to Develop Android
Description: This is a three-day workshop on using Java to develop Android apps in the eclipse environment. It will cover the installation of the SDK and the AVD manager, develop a couple of apps for Android devices, load apps onto devices as well as how to introduce your apps to the Android Marketplace. This is a great opportunity to bring students in to a popular area of computer programming that they can immediately share with friends and family and can be a great recruiting tool.
Contact: cody.henrichsen@gmail.com
Event URL: www.tinyurl.com/appinventorclass