<div dir="ltr">I think so - I like how they have expanded the types of things they are funding.<div>-- Jan</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">*************************************</span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Jandelyn Plane, PhD<br>Principal Lecturer - Department of Computer Science</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Director - Maryland Center for Women in Computing</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Associate Director - ACES Honors Program<br>University of Maryland College Park<br><a href="mailto:jplane@cs.umd.edu" target="_blank">jplane@cs.umd.edu</a>   301-405-2754<br><br>******************************************</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Megean Garvin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:megeangarvin@gmail.com" target="_blank">megeangarvin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Should we apply for next year too?<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Katia Naffa</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knaffa@google.com" target="_blank">knaffa@google.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 1:52 PM<br>Subject: [Google CS education] Join the CS educator online summit; 2018 grant applications now open<br>To: <a href="mailto:megeangarvin@gmail.com" target="_blank">megeangarvin@gmail.com</a><br><br><br><span>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="m_-6393403490522663641m_-7601790912928367465docs-internal-guid-26c1ed0f-4bf1-4116-7e77-bc0947c4774b"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Meet Dr. Lisa Milenkovic, the STEM and Computer Science Supervisor for </span><a href="http://browardschools.com/Home" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Broward County Public Schools</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (BCPS), the sixth-largest school district in the nation and the second largest in Florida. As a 2017 grantee, Milenkovic developed an online PD course to help educators achieve state certification in Florida for teaching CS. “When you’re starting a new initiative like building a computer science program, you don’t have formal departments, or methods for teachers to interact with one another,” she says. “You need to help teachers build up their peer network.” The CS certification course and face-to-face mentoring funded by Google’s grant builds CS teaching expertise in the district, increasing the availability of CS classes district-wide. Learn more about </span><a href="https://goo.gl/aLNmsV" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Lisa’s PD journey</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> for educators in Broward County Public Schools</span></span></p>
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