[BALUG-Talk] Linux Users' Group of Davis, "Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education", July 18th

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The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting:

  Monday
  July 18, 2016
  7:00pm - 9:00pm

Presentation:
  The Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education (The C-STEM Center)
  presented by Professor Harry H. Cheng,
  Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC Davis

    C-STEM, "Computing, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics",
    <http://c-stem.ucdavis.edu/about-us/> is a UC Approved Educational
    Preparation Program for Undergraduate Admission for all University of
    California campuses.  Participation in the C-STEM program is recognized
    in the UC admissions process as achievements that have explicitly
    prepared students for college and career.

    UC Davis recently launched a new national program for school districts
    across the country that will make it easier for students to have
    computer science educations starting in first grade.  This new
    curriculum provides students with a full first-grade-to-high-school
    curriculum that includes mathematics from the Center for Integrated
    Computing and STEM Education at UC Davis (the C-STEM Center).

    The C-STEM Center, founded by Professor Harry Cheng in 2010, aims
    to transform C-STEM education in both formal and informal K-14
    programs through integrated learning, guided by two key objectives:
    (1) close the achievement gap by broadening participation of
    students traditionally underrepresented in computing and STEM
    related careers and post-secondary study, and (2) develop students'
    21st century problem-solving skills to tackle real world concerns
    through integrated computing and STEM education.

    The center's vision is to provide formal computing education for
    all K-12 students. The C-STEM ICT (information and communications
    technology) Pathway will provide K-12 students with 12 years of
    computer science education through hands-on integrated learning of
    math and computer science with coding in the C and C++ languages,
    and Blockly, a client-side JavaScript library for creating visual
    block programming editors which run in a web browser (an open source
    project of Google, and which resembles Scratch).

    The C-STEM Center can provide two-day training academies and weeklong
    institutes in using the curriculum in the classroom for teachers
    who have no prior computer programming and robotics experience.

About the Speaker:

  Dr. Harry Cheng <http://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/cheng/>
  is a professor at UC Davis' Department of Mechanical and Aerospace
  Engineering, and is founder and director of the C-STEM Center. In 2006,
  he found that few students in his freshman computer programming course
  had prior experience in the subject. Inspired to increase exposure
  to computing in K-12 classrooms, Cheng saw a larger opportunity
  to transform how students from elementary school to college learn
  computing, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (C-STEM).


This meeting will be held at:

  Explorit Nature Center
  3141 5th Street
  Davis, CA 95616

For more details on this meeting, visit:

  http://www.lugod.org/meeting/

For maps, directions, public transportation schedules, etc., visit:

  http://www.lugod.org/meeting/explorit/


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About LUGOD:
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  The Linux Users' Group of Davis is a 501(c)7 non-profit organization
  dedicated to the Linux computer operating system and other Open Source
  and Free Software.

  Since 1999, LUGOD has held regular meetings with guest speakers
  in Davis, California, as well as other events in Davis and the greater
  Sacramento region.  Events are always free and open to the public.

  You can 'like' LUGOD on Facebook at:
  https://www.facebook.com/LinuxUsersGroupOfDavis
  join the LUGOD group on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lugod/
  and find us on LinkedIn at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=35879

  Please visit our website for more details:  http://www.lugod.org/


-- 
Bill Kendrick
pr@lugod.org
Public Relations Officer
Linux Users' Group of Davis
http://www.lugod.org/

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