Minutes - September 15, 2009
General Membership Meeting

The meeting was called to order at 4:30 pm

The new website was introduced:

  • The membership page will contain a list of institutions/organizations our members come from
  • We will create e-mail accounts at pacse.org by role, as in president@pacse.org

Topics, speakers and agenda for Fall Symposium:

 

  • 'Expanding Computer Science: content, approach, participation' is the tagline
  • Tammy Pirmann will present key issues on diversity learned at the Tapestry workshop at University of VA
  • Faculty members of Haverford College will introduce us to Scientific Computing
  • Brief overview of the new CSTA Level 1 Curriculum
  • We will try to put together a panel to discuss approaches to computer science education
  • We decided to change the date from October to November to allow us to work on increasing participation in our offerings
  • We will send a 'save the date' email this week, then produce a poster to be sent out 6 weeks prior to the event

Topics for membership meetings for this year:

  • Tabled until next meeting

     

Nominations and elections of Vice President and Secretary:

  • Dorothy Weiss was nominated for Vice President, won the vote by acclamation
  • John Dougherty was nominated for Secretary, won the vote by acclamation

Meeting was adjourned at 6:15 pm

Mission

Computer Science is a young and rapidly changing field, challenging its practitioners and educators to remain current and be quick to adapt in order to achieve their full potential. Our group offers a forum for the exchange of curriculum ideas, sparking collaboration among and between educators in secondary schools and universities in the greater Philadelphia area, so as to help fuel continued improvement in the teaching of Computer Science. We promote Computer Science education and support K-16 educators by raising public awareness of Computer Science and its many subfields, and the value of a Computer Science education to the next generation of students.

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