Undergraduate Business and Technology

Agenda is tentative and subject to change.

10 am Housing check-in (or later in the day during breaks)
11:30 am Lunch (Mexican Buffet) and Workshop Registration
12:00 pmWelcome & Expectations, Chery Takkunen & Jen Rosato
12:15 pm Recruiting Students to CS, Seth Reichelson
1:15 - 1:30 pm Break
1:30 - 2:30 pm Keynote, Jeff Forbes
Program Director for the Education and Workforce Program in the Division of CNS/CISE
Presentation on current conditions & need for computing in high school
2:30 - 3:30 pm Interesting projects to retain students, Seth Reichelson
3:30 - 3:45 pm break with snacks
3:45 - 4:45 pm Gender & Computing, Joanne McGrath Cohoon
4:45 - 5 pm Dinner Logistics
5 - 6 pm Break
6:00 - 9 pm Dinner, discussion, and scavenger hunt, Thai Krathong in Canal Park

7 - 8:30 am Breakfast in Greenview Dining Room
8:30 am Logic games/CS Unplugged activities, Jen & Chery
9:30-10:30 am Rethinking CS1, Luther Tychonievich
10:30 am break
10:45 am Pair Programming, Jen Rosato
12-1 Lunch with Topic Tables
Topic Ideas: K-12 curriculum, MN CSTA chapter, Pair Programming, Active Recruiting, Making CS1 Engaging, New AP CS course
1-2 Career Panel of CSS Alumni
What is it really like? A day in the life of a computer scientist: Alums and students share
2:00 pm break
2:15 pm Caitlin Kelleher, Looking Glass
Interactive session with laptops
4-5 pm Wrap Up Discussion
Small group discussion & large group debrief

7 - 8:30 am Breakfast in Greenview Dining Room
8:30 am Logic Game/CS Unplugged Activity
9:00 am Advocating for CS Education
10:00 am Break (check out of rooms if needed)
10:30 am Creating a Strategic Plan to Increase Diversity:
- Active recruiting strategies
- Engaging learning strategies
- Current data & goal data
- Assessment methods
11:30 Box Lunch
12:00 - 1 pm Committment and Assesment, Luther Tychonievich

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