CS4HS
Introductions
Prof. William Pugh
Dept. of Computer Science
This workshop
• This is your workshop
– its success is determined by how much you all get
out of it
• We've never done a workshop like this before
– we'll listen and adjust as needed
– please speak up and ask questions
• Use this opportunity to ask any questions you
want
Sponsored by
• This workshop is supported by Google and the
CS department
• Thanks to efforts put in by Margaret Byrns, Jan
Plane, Jeff Hollingsworth, Keith Lea, and the
CS lab staff
– and all of our guest speakers
Hotel, transportation and parking
• Holiday Inn of College Park
– on Route 1, just north of Beltway
• If you are parked outside the building, you
may get a ticket
– we can direct you to a pay lot
• We can get a shuttle to/from the Holiday Inn
– go there tonight at 5pm
• Tomorrow morning, two trips at 8am and
8:30am
Dinner tonight at hotel
• Reception and dinner at hotel tonight,
followed by talk by Larry Davis, chair of the CS
department
– reception at 5:30, dinner at 6, talk at 7:30
Unconference
• Tomorrow afternoon we have an unconference
• Break up into small groups, discuss topics that
you suggest
• Suggest ideas on post-it notes, we will arrange
them into a schedule
• Find a topic that interests you
• Law of two feet:
– if you aren't contributing or learning something from
a discussion, walk away, find another discussion
Tuesday dinner
• Dinner in small groups, places walking
distance from here
– or by car if you wish, or weather suggests it
– Chance of thunderstorms....
• Sorry, but it is on your own tab
Tuesday night lightning talks
• After dinner, meet back here for lightning talks
• Sign up to give a talk
• Any topic you like:
– what you are doing at your school
– projects your students have done
– how to photograph fireworks
– how to drive a race car
– how to defend yourself when the zombies attack
Various follow ups
• Book orders came in slower than we anticipated
– we may need to ship books to you
• We'll have an evaluation for you to complete on
Wednesday
– let us know if you can't be here on Wednesday
• We'll try to help over the next few months with
any questions you have about material covered in
this workshop
– all slides will be made available
– email to cs4hs@cs.umd.edu; we'll try to sort out the
best person to handle it
Individual introductions
• Please go around, introduce yourself. Tell us:
– Your name
– Where you work and your duties
– What you hope to get out of the workshop
– A skill, talent or experience of yours that is
unusual, or interesting, or just something people
wouldn't expect
• doesn't need to be work / CS related