<div dir="ltr">Highlights from today's ECEP meeting.<div><br></div><div>Lots of conjecture about where the money is coming from for the $200 million dedicated to CS education.</div><div><br></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-2bc02e1e-bb11-8185-1962-85ccb08458ea"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">STARS program is in Loyola and Bowie state in MD. Curriculum for the credit college class was shared.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ECEP mini grants: Deadline extended 2 weeks for mini grants</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mini-Grant RFP located on the ECEP Google Site :</span><a href="https://sites.google.com/a/ecep.cs.umass.edu/ecep-nsf/shared-documents/assoc-state-mini-grants" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://sites.google.com/a/ecep.cs.umass.edu/ecep-nsf/shared-documents/assoc-state-mini-grants</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Other uses of mini grants: SC did a landscape study that led to updated CS standards (Quinn Burke) Discovered that rural areas were not offering CS. <br></span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Summit and landscape study in NH. Challenging to get business data.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap"> Nice looking landscape report (a grad student did great formatting)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Anne Leftwich, IN,  they brought together PLTW, COde facilitators and others. This is a great idea to build facilitators in the state. Working with the governor’s office. Also meeting with the department of ed. Governor’s office pledging millions. Announcement to come soon.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Patty: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">They brought Dale Reed and did the first ECS in Spanish. Created a strong bond between teachers. Got a meeting with the secretary for education. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">PR has other problems right now, obviously. Discussing DonorsChoose to get funding for rebuilding.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cindi Nevada, they have new K12 CS standards. In internal review currently, will go public any day now. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Carol TX, working on ECEP 2.0. Sara, Maureen, and Anne are all coming to Austin next week to work on details.  </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Conference still not finalized. Will submit to NSF, meet at CSforAll. Currently looking at January in NC. Team of 14 people to plan the annual meeting. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Alabama Draft CS Standards released for internal comment  Will be made for public release soon.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hal and Carol are doing Hour of Code in the Rotunda this year with TX legislators. Other states are thinking of doing the same thing. Dell will loan PCs, other sponsors, Facebook. Kids will teach legislators their first lines of code. </span></p><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IDEA: collaborate with CEASOM and add more CS opportunities to their common ground conference in Ocean City. </span><a href="http://www.commongroundmd.org/housing.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.commongroundmd.org/housing.html</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> That will forge a stronger connection with Eastern Shore. Make this a place to grow our area advocates. Possibly make a mini grant out of this? Registration costs $190/ per person for the 2 days. </span></span><br><div><br></div><div>Notes are on our site<div><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GPA2b2cwkcAv3ZyUyjVxvrWqjmDv9Q5yBVV9x3En0Q0/edit">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GPA2b2cwkcAv3ZyUyjVxvrWqjmDv9Q5yBVV9x3En0Q0/edit</a></div><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Dianne O'Grady-Cunniff, CS Matters in Maryland</div></div>
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