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Women in Computer Science Day at UPENN Please sign up at this site if you're interested in participating in the WICS day.  It's a great experience that allows you to learn more about what computer science will be like in college and what career opportunities it might present.

Computer Science Education Week! This week is CS Ed Week, a week set aside to bring attention to Computer Science, and specifically to Computer Science Education.  Computer Science students have been working on projects for several weeks and showcased them yesterday at Upper School Assembly.  As they turn in their projects, I'll highlight them here.  Here is one example, Paige Tobin's ('13) Computer Science commercial:

Welcome! Welcome to my page and to the 2012-2013 school year!  Here you will find links to information about the Baldwin Computing program as well as individual courses. Information for students is distributed here as well as through other means.  I also try to provide information about technology resources for both teachers and students.

Computer Science and Technology at Baldwin At Baldwin, we provide many opportunities to use technology within the curriculum. However, through the technology and computer science curriculum, we focus on providing a solid foundation in computational thinking and technical skills.  Computational thinking involves problem solving skills, the process of abstracting, planning, working with data, and figuring out how computers can help with the problem-solving process, among other things.  While computational thinking forms the foundation for computer science, it is important to many disciplines.  While the specific technological tools we use continue to evolve, a computational way of thinking will provide students with the ability to evolve with them.

Teaching Scratch in 8th Grade Here's a video of me at an MIT workshop about what I teach and showing some student work.   ScratchEd | Show & Tell: Laura Blankenship from ScratchEd on Vimeo.