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Contents 1 Welcome to the Project GUTS - Supercomputing Challenge Summer Teacher Institute 2 Group Photo 3 STI Schedule 3.1 Both Strands 3.2 Strand 1 3.3 Strand 2 3.4 Guest Speakers 3.5 NMT cafeteria information (breakfast and lunch) 4 Lecture Notes and Resources 4.1 Broadening Participation 4.1.1 Data Literacy 4.2 Careers 4.3 Computational Thinking 4.3.1 Best Practices, Barriers and Affordances - Ideas from Participants 4.4 Computer Science 4.4.1 Celebrating the 100th Centennial of Alan Turing's Birthday 4.4.2 Java 4.4.3 NetLogo 4.4.4 Scratch Resources 4.4.5 Fractal Talk and Resources 4.5 Data Literacy from NMT EPSCoR 4.6 Data Analysis 4.6.1 Old Data, etc. 4.7 Diversity 4.7.1 Gender 4.8 Research 4.9 Robotics Resources Evening Program 4.10 Standards 4.10.1 Common Core Standards 4.10.2 New CSTA Curriculum Standards 4.10.3 ISTE NETS 4.10.4 Next Generation Science Standards 4.11 Supercomputing Challenge 4.12 Supporting Materials 4.13 Teaming 4.14 Technical Writing 4.15 Tower of Hanoi 4.16 Visualization 5 Reflective Blog 6 Projects 6.1 Participants' Projects 7 Surveys 8 Contacts 9 Organizations and Free Lists and Newsletters 10 You Heard IT Here First 11 Around Socorro 12 Physical Exercise Options 13 Prior Year's STI Wikis

Welcome to the Project GUTS - Supercomputing Challenge Summer Teacher Institute

Thanks to a Google CS4HS grant and LANS (Los Alamos National Security) at LANL, we are holding our fifth annual joint professional development at New Mexico Tech, from July 15th - 27th. Move into Baca Hall any time after 3 PM, Sunday, to register and then we will go over to Fidel Center for an opening BBQ and introductions at 5:30. Our second week will be held regionally and online.

Group Photo

STI Schedule

Both Strands

• Evening Programs

Strand 1

• Class Schedule
• 3 A's of Computer Science
• Teaching Computational Thinking: Abstraction, Automation, Analysis
• Bringing CT to K-12 (Not Just Math and Science)
• Intro to Computational Modeling
• Exporting StarLogo data to Excel and curve fitting

Strand 2

• Class Schedule
• Tips for use of the ABM book
• Model Planner
• Butterfly Model Planner
• Side-by-Side StarLogo TNG & NetLogo Code Excerpts
• Biologically Inspired Computing (Optimization)
• Build hills with turtles in StarLogo TNG
• Butterfly model from Day 2 for experimentation
• Butterfly Model with algorithm to kill butterflies once at top of hill in StarLogo TNG

Guest Speakers

• Guest Speaker List

NMT cafeteria information (breakfast and lunch)

• Schedule

Lecture Notes and Resources

Broadening Participation

• Win it in a Minute Fun Transitions
• Team Cup Stacking Exercise
• Wordle Data Activity

Data Literacy

Sunday Evening Activity (This is the picture and wordle from the curriculum.)

• Hi-Res Room Activity Picture
• Exploring Computer Science PDF
• Room Activity Word List
• Download Hi-Res picture, the word list, and the pdf. Then see pages 45-50 of the Exploring Computer Science pdf for the activity write up for examining the Hi-Res image.

Careers

• Career Pamphlet PDF
• Careers in NM
• Career One Stop
• Outline for Career One Stop Website
• Foggy Futures: The Confused Computing Career Aspirations of 12-year-olds

Computational Thinking

• Carnegie Melon CT
• Exploring Computational Thinking - Google
• Bringing CT to K-12
• Unplugged Activity Pages
• CS Unplugged
• Cyber Challenge
• Computer Science: Principles; Computational Thinking Practices; Big Ideas, Key Concepts, and Supporting Concepts PDF

Best Practices, Barriers and Affordances - Ideas from Participants

• Integration of Computational Thinking
• Programming
• Diversity

Computer Science

• Computer Science Pedagogy
• Instructions: I am a Robot
• Decomposition: Cake Factory
• Parallelism - Parallel Processing Activities
• Variables, conditionals, and evaluating expressions
• Termites, hands on activity
• Advocating for CS (computer science) in mid and high school
• The Sorry State of CS1 (introductory computer science)
• CS/CT during IST & OST (What?) Computer Science/Computational Thinking during IST (In School Time) and OST (Out of School Time)
• Computing in the Core: Advocating for K-12 Computer Science Education

Celebrating the 100th Centennial of Alan Turing's Birthday

• Code Breaker the Life and Legacy of Alan Turing You Tube show
• Code Breaker – Exhibit of the Work of Alan Turing
• The Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook – The Turing Test, 1950
• Radio Lab: Turing Test
• 2012 The Alan Turing Year
• Turing and his work, including Artificial Intelligence. Largest web collection of digital facsimiles of original documents by Turing and other pioneers of computing. Plus articles about
• Alan Turing – Biography including Apology from British Government
• A Turing Machine built using LEGO

Java

• Java Lectures and Source Code from 2011

NetLogo

• NetLogo Book

Scratch Resources

• Scratch
• Computational Thinking
• ScratchEd
• Carl's Scratch Resources

Fractal Talk and Resources

• Slides from Joel Castellanos's Fractal talk (This presentation has many large images and is 204MB, so it is best viewed by right-clicking and saving a local copy before opening the document).
• FractalGrower Freeware for Growing Lindenmayer Substitution Fractals
• GNU XaoS: fast interactive fractal zoomer

Data Literacy from NMT EPSCoR

• NMT Data Literacy

Data Analysis

Old Data, etc.

• Data Analysis

Diversity

• Diversity and Recruitment wiki
• Diversity Statistics PSAP Personal Stuck Action Plan
• Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation

Gender

• Girls Win Google's Science Fair
• Gender Differences in Stem Faculty
• First-Place Sweep by American Girls at First Google Science Fair
• Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering
• College mentors key to prospective female STEM major
• How We Got 50 Women to Our Hackathon (And You Can, Too)
• World needs more geek girls!

Research

• Research Wiki

Robotics Resources Evening Program

• First Semester BEST Robotics (focus on design and building from scratch material - Remote Control Robots - majority of effort is put into building robot)
• Second Semester Botball (focus on design and programming - Autonomous Robots - majority of effort is put into programming)

Standards

Common Core Standards

• Overview
• The Standards

New CSTA Curriculum Standards

• (Call for Public Comment)
• Draft CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards
• Computer Science Teacher Certification Requirements

ISTE NETS

• (National Ed Tech Standards)

Next Generation Science Standards

• http://www.nextgenscience.org/

Supercomputing Challenge

• Supercomputing Challenge - Home Page
• About the Challenge
• Challenge Overview
• Challenge as an Academic Marathon
• SC videos of top finalist presentations, 07 - 08
• Supercomputing Challenge Dates
• 2011 Student Webinar -The Black Death, Garbage Patches and the Supercomputing Challenge

Supporting Materials

• An STI Problem Solving Bibliography, Applied Math, Fermi Problems
• Software Downloads
• Letter to Administrator
• Letter to Tech Person
• Expand Your Connections Poster
• Electronic Vehicles
• Games People Play
• Digital Word Wall

Teaming

• Teaming Wiki

Technical Writing

• Overview Technical Writing
• Technical Writing Presentation
• Purdue OWL - Online Writing Lab

Tower of Hanoi

• Tower of Hanoi Reference Materials

Visualization

• Visualization
• Many Eyes
• Google Public Data Explorer
• Infographics for Librarians, Educators, and Students
• The Anatomy of An Infographic: 5 Steps to Create a Powerful Visual

Reflective Blog

• Reflective Blog & Discussion Forum

Projects

• Brainstorming Ideas for a Good Project

Participants' Projects

Surveys

• NM-CS4HS-2012

Contacts

• Guest Speakers
• Teacher Participants
• Student Alums
• Facilitators

Organizations and Free Lists and Newsletters

• Supercomputing Challenge
• Project GUTS.
• Guts y Girls
• NM Society for Technology in Education
• CSTA - Computer Science Teacher Association
• ISTE - International Society for Technology in Education
• Updated NETS - National Educational Tech Standards
• CS Bits and Bytes
• State Science and Math Teachers' List
• The Information Age Newsletter
• Fractal Foundation

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You Heard IT Here First

• Come join the Challenge at the Maker Faire in ABQ
• Education and Social Media
• Here is an article about modeling tornadoes with supercomputers.
• Rising Above the Gathering Storm Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5
  • Note: This legally downloads the pdf of the full report. But the pdf begins with an offer to sell you a print copy. This is confusing! Just move on to the report.
• Drought and Wind Fuel Summer of Fire
• STEM Report, referenced by Bobbi Eichhorst
• Technology Student Organization, recommended by Bobbi Eichhorst
  • New Mexico chapter of TSA

Around Socorro

• Sightseeing in and around Socorro
• Restaurants in Socorro
• Cafeteria Hours

Physical Exercise Options

Open to All Tech Students

• Swimming Pool
• Game Room
• NMT Gym
• Golf

Prior Year's STI Wikis

• STI11 wiki
• STI10 wiki
• STI09 wiki