Program Overview

K-12 Computing Teachers Workshop
“Overcoming Barriers, Boundaries and Bad News”
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
October 1-2, 2010   –   Hyatt Regency Atlanta

Hosted in Partnership with the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI)

The K-12 workshop is hosted in Partnership with the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI) and will be the second K-12 teachers workshop held at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference. This year’s theme “Overcoming Barriers, Boundaries and Bad News” will build upon the equity issue discussions from the inaugural workshop which culminated in a white paper “Addressing Core Equity Issues in K-12 Computer Science Education: Identifying Barriers and Sharing Strategies.”

The 2010 workshop will convene K-12 teachers who work with under-represented populations of students at the Grace Hopper Celebration to:

  1. Instigate a discussion of equity and computer science curriculum;
  2. Create knowledge sharing opportunities on concrete solutions grounded in teachers’ articulated, specific needs;
  3. Disseminate these solutions to a broad audience of teachers, STEM practitioners, and interested stakeholders via workshop, Town Hall meeting and discussion of a newly released white paper; and
  4. Evaluate the effectiveness of these solutions in classrooms that serve under-represented student populations.

View the full workshop agenda.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Applications are no longer being accepted for this workshop. Applicants were notified of their status on Friday, June 11, 2010. If you did not receive notification of your application status please contact us.

The K12 Workshop scholarship acceptance deadline was Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Please refer to your scholarship notification email for registration instructions.

SCHOLARSHIP REIMBURSEMENT INFORMATION

You will receive reimbursement information at the K12 workshop, in your workshop folder. You may also download reimbursement forms online. REIMBURSEMENTS WILL NOT BE MADE ONSITE. You will submit your reimbursement form along with your receipts by mail after the conference.

Participants who live less than 1 hour from the conference hotel will not receive hotel as part of their scholarship and are not eligible to be reimbursed for hotel expenses.

See the hotel assignments and confirmation numbers for scholarship recipients who registered before the hotel cut off date. (coming soon)

Participants who choose to book their own hotel rooms will be reimbursed up to $106 per night (x2 nights).

Participants who received a travel award will be reimbursed for travel costs (airfare, mileage or gas, ground transportation) up to the amount of their travel award. Any additional costs beyond your travel award are not eligible for reimbursement. Travel insurance is non reimbursable.

If you have questions regarding your travel award please contact us.

A special thanks to our generous sponsors!