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If you’d like to learn more about the workshop, you can view the slides or contact Crystal.

Thanks to Crystal Hess for facilitating the workshop, Lauren Bricker for organizing, and the University of Washington for providing space. Thanks also to Jeremy Munroe for helping to make clock hours available to those who attended the workshop.

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This workshop, run by Crystal Hess, is designed to engage critical thinking about how to build a collaborative learning community in the classroom that focuses on advocacy for students from marginalized or underserved populations.

Participants will engage in activities, discussion, and reflection to generate critical thinking about how can they, as educators, act/react to create a safe and equitable learning environment for our students. Participants gain common vocabulary about equity (privilege, bias, and allyship) and participate in discussions about how each of these can effect a student’s ability to engage in learning in the classroom and to feel belonging in to a collaborative learning community (particularly those students you are traditionally underserved or marginalized). Participants will work through example inequity scenarios, discuss solutions with their peers, and practice responses that create a safe and equitable learning experience for their students.

NOTE: Participants will be required to do an hour of pre-work consisting of groundwork for discussions in the sessions including reading supplied articles and completing supplied activities as well as reflecting on those experiences before coming to the workshop.

Participants who complete the pre-work and the 2 hour workshop will be eligible to receive 3 regular clock hours (sponsored by PSCSTA and the UW Dawgbytes program) (pending approval from WSTA, but we don’t think it will be a problem). Please email csta.pugetsound@gmail.com if you would like to receive clock hours for this event.

Event Schedule:
12:00 – Arrive/socialize (Parking is free on campus after noon)
12:30 – 2:30: Workshop
2:30 – Time to continue discussion or to socialize

About the facilitator: Crystal Hess is a tenure-track Computer Science Instructor at Shoreline Community College. She previously taught both High School and was most recently Program Director at Ada Developers Academy (a coding bootcamp in Seattle for women and gender diverse people). She is most passionate about creating an equitable, safe, and fun learning experience for all students (especially the underserved) in the intro sequence (CS0 and CS1 in particular) and creating communities where people feel supported and connected (both students and educators).

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The morning started with a talk by Mark Russinovich, Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform and author of the popular books Trojan Horse and Zero day. He had some great parting advise for all the students: “Ask questions and seek the answer, Write and speak about it, Stay current.”

We want to thank the Microsoft and Microsoft Teals for supporting us, and key PSCSTA members including Lauren Bricker, Chad Norman, Kory Srock, Brett Wortzman. Ashwin Raja, Alex Kharbush, Michael A. Hawker, Adam Blackburn, Andrea Foegler, and many others for their help organizing the contest, and so many others that helped out on the day of the event.

Mark R’s parting advise to students.

All photos taken at this event can be found in our Winter 2015 Flickr Album.

Materials

• PracticeProblem
• NovicePacket
• AdvancedPacket
• everything

Future Events

• Tech Out! event for Girls on Saturday, February, 2015
• Spring Contest likely on Saturday, April 24, 2015

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All photos of the event are now posted on our flickr page!

The contest started with a Tech Panel of industry professionals that work in Computer Science fields related to Security. The video of this panel will be posted soon.

The winners of the advanced division were

• 1st place: 2sly4you from Garfield High School (earning 835 points in 2:45:43)
• 2nd place: Sirius Cybernetics from MercerIsland High School (earning 780 points in 2:42:53)
• 3rd place: Complexity from Interlake High School (earning 780 points in 2:53:43)*

The winners of the intermediate division were

• 1st place: Eastlake High from Eastlake High School (earning 775 points in 2:32:47)
• 2nd place: Polar Vortex from Tahoma High School (earning 720 points in 2:29:12)
• 3rd place: ! from Seattle Preparatory School (earning 660 points in 2:59:00)

* We regretfully had some miscommunication with a judge in the advanced division. Corrections to the Bank Street Writer were not communicated to the judge which resulted in two teams not receiving these corrections. We apologize greatly to the teams impacted, which included Complexity from Interlake High School. If they had received these corrections they may have been able to place higher in the standings.

All scoresheets and materials used are provided below.

• Advanced Scoresheet
• Intermediate Scoresheet
• Practice Problem
• Student Packet
• Judge Packet
• Student Data
• Judge Data

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