Pilot AP Computer Science Principles Course

1. Pilot APComputer Science Principles Course by Art Lopez Sweetwater High School

2. Introduction • CSP is a proposed AP course under development that seeks to broaden participation in computing and computer science for high school and college students. • The CSP course curriculum within San Diego County developed and led by Dr. Beth Simon of UCSD, and Dr. Diane Baxter for ComPASS CE21.

3. Background and Rationale for CSP Course • Students require increasing skills in computing across all STEM fields. • Number of students (especially women and minorities) studying computing and computer science at both the high school and college levels has been declining alarmingly. • Number of college freshmen intending to major in computer science plummeted more than 70 percent this decade.

4. Goals of CSP Course • Introduce and provide educational opportunities for Computer Science curriculum at the high school level. • CSP course is intended to foster a wider appeal for the computer science discipline and to better prepare a pipeline of STEM majors. • NSF funding project and targeting to increase number of women and minorities that would take this course.

5. ComPASS CE21 • ComPASS CE21 is recruiting and training teachers to teach CSP course in San Diego County. • ComPASS CE21 promoting and recruiting high schools and school districts to adopt course. • Curriculum designed by Dr. Beth Simon and is aligned with curriculum framework for the Pilot AP CSP course.

6. Pilot AP CS Principles Course • Information about CS Principles Course found at: http://www.csprinciples.org/ • Curriculum Framework • Learning Objectives • Performance Tasks: three components.

7. ComPASS CE21 Curriculum • Teach an engaging new computer science principles curriculum (aligned with Pilot AP CSP) based around the Alice 3D program. • Alice On-Line Book: Expeditions Through Alice. • Alice On-Line Book Teacher’s Guide.

8. CS10K Community • Goal: Computer science should be part of everyone's education, and everyone should have a path to a career in computing. • Goal:recruit and have 10,000 well-trained computer science teachers in 10,000 high school across the United States. • Pilot AP CSP course using this Web site for resources and discussion forums.

9. Phase II:Pilot AP CSP Courses in San Diego • Art Lopez at Sweetwater High School. • Juanita Quevedo at Otay Ranch High School. • Jill Westerlund at Hoover High School. • Rebecca Dovi at Patrick Henry High School.

10. URLs for Pilot AP CSP Course • College Board: https://sites.google.com/site/csprinciplespilotii/ • ComPASS CE 21: http://www.ce21sandiego.org/ • CS10K Community: http://cs10kcommunity.org/

11. Contact Information for San Diego CSP Course • Dr. Beth Simon: bsimon@cs.ucsd.edu • Please add QWERTYat beginning of subject line. • Dr. Diane Baxter: Dbaxter@sdsc.edu • Director of Education, San Diego Supercomputer and UCSD. • Ange Mason: amason@sdsc.edu • Education Program Manager , San Diego Supercomputer and UCSD. • Art Lopez: arthur.lopez@sweetwaterschools.org

12. Thank You