From your Board: April Monthly Meeting is 🌟 TONIGHT 🌟 and a call for proposals!
We hope your April is as amazing as you all are! Don't forget about our monthly chapter meeting tonight and read on for updates from CSTA NE and Quinnipiac!
CSTA (Computer Science Teachers Association) New England has a call for proposals for the October 16, 2021 CSTA Conference. Do you have a great CS idea? Are you interested in networking with other CS teachers? Please mark your calendar for the conference and consider proposing to present.
The Computer Science and Software Engineering Programs in the School of Engineering at Quinnipiac University are sponsoring a High School Computer Programming Competition. The competition will be held remotely using cloud tools (Zoom and Mimir) on Wednesday, April 21, 2021. They will be limiting the competition to 30 teams this year. High schools should submit a form for each team. Teams consist of 2 or 3 students. We reserve the right to limit the number of teams from individual schools if necessary, to provide slots for more schools to participate. The deadline for registration is this Friday, April 16th.
Student teams will work together to solve programming problems. Programs may be written and submitted in Java, C/C++, or Python. If a team wishes to use a different language, please contact them directly. The competition consists of problems ranging from relatively easy to relatively difficult. Scoring will be based on whether the submitted program compiles, runs, and solves the specified problem. The team that solves the most problems wins; ties are broken by the time of last successful submission.
Sample Programming Problems
Problems from previous competitions are available on request.
To participate, please complete the registration form found at the end of the article.
Schedule
[NOTE: The online-competition platform will be open for testing a week ahead]
Introduction to Computer Hardware and Components using Logisim (free downloadable educational tool for designing and simulating digital logic circuits on Windows or Mac).
Computer Networking Workshop - April 24, 2021, 10am-3pm
Programming concepts in Python. Using pandas library to manipulate and explore a dataset. Create simple visualizations using Matplotlib. This is a 2-day workshop.
Participants will need a Google account to use Google Colab.
