Computer Science Education Week 2020

CS Ed Week Launch is the kickoff event for our whole week of activities where students and teachers alike can learn about CS across VA. Attendees will hear from a diverse range of CS professionals along with Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, First Lady Pamela Northam, Secretary of Education Atif Qarni, and State Superintendent James Lane

Algorithms are a fundamental part of computer science. Eureka Workshop will be leading activities that explore how both bees and dessert chefs need algorithms in order to communicate. Join us to learn about sequencing, patterns, looping, and randomness as we create our own group algorithms in real time!

Algorithms are a fundamental part of computer science. Eureka Workshop will be leading activities that explore how both bees and dessert chefs need algorithms in order to communicate. Join us to learn about sequencing, patterns, looping, and randomness as we create our own group algorithms in real time!

Join us for an App in an Hour event where participants will be learning how to code a classic shell game using Code.org’s App Lab. Viewers will learn how to use block code to create a game with variables, functions, and loops. This activity is perfect for beginning to intermediate learners aged middle school to adult.

DoodleJams are collaborative drawing time hosted by our Eureka Workshop and for CS Ed Week our special guest artist will be Saxton Moore! Saxton Moore is a two times emmy nominated artist who’s worked with the likes of Nickelodeon and Netflix. Students of all ages can join this online drawing session and have fun with a career professional and their friends!

Looking for ideas for how to integrate computer science into your classroom? Join us on twitter for the CS Integration Twitter chat to share ideas and resources on how you can make your classroom CS Ready

Participants will focus on Knowledge of Elementary School Computer Science Standards of Learning, Strategies to integrate Computer Science into non-CS subject areas, How to work with CodeVA’s Computer Science Integration Lesson Planning Guide, and Learning to plan Computer Science integrated lessons for K-5th grade.

Participants will focus on Knowledge of Middle School Computer Science Standards of Learning, Strategies to integrate Computer Science into non-CS subject areas, How to work with CodeVA’s Computer Science Integration Lesson Planning Guide, and Learning to plan Computer Science integrated lessons for 6th-8th grade.

Join us December 7 from 3:30-4:30 for an interactive session on the Impacts of Computing. This is part of CSTA Blue Ridge’s Computer Science Series every Monday from 11/9-12/14. Join the conversation to help us bring CS Education to every student in Virginia. Each session is stand alone for register for one or all!

At Family Code Night, parents pair up with their young children at this evening school event to do their first hour of coding, together. The effect is extraordinary: huge turnouts, great fun, inspiration – plus the personal engagement of happy, motivated parents, a unique and largely untapped force in K-5 computer-science education.

Presented by CodeVA’s Director of Education, Rebcca Dovi, this webinar will provide principals, educators and parents with necessary understanding of the Virginia Computer Science Education Mandate. The Mandate requires schools to integrate computer science into core instruction from kindergarten through eight grade. Through CodeVA’s partnership with the national CS is Elementary program, schools will also see how to post their computer science goals in a visualization of CS programs in each school and district in the state.