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Known for its wildly successful hackathons for college students, HackGT is bringing some of that magic to high school students from across Atlanta with the third annual Catalyst event. Set for April 13 on the Georgia Tech campus, Catalyst is a one-day workshop, blended with traditional hackathon challenges.
Constellations Center for Equity in Computing senior director Kamau Bobb was recently named to the board of trustees of AnitaB.org, one of the most prominent organizations in computer science.
SIGCSE convenes the top computer science education researchers and practitioners in the world annually to share the latest pedagogy in the field and bring CS education innovations directly into the classroom.The Constellations Center for Equity in Computing at Georgia Tech took on a leading role in the 2019 symposium, as well as its sister conference, Respect 2019, in advancing solutions to increase minority and female participation in CS education.
When Lien Diaz was a student, she dreamed of being an engineer or going to law school. Not once did she think she would end up in education.Now, with more than 20 years of education experience, Diaz – Director for Educational Innovation and Leadership for the Constellations Center for Equity in Computing at Georgia Tech – is glad that things worked out the way they have.
Improving computer science (CS) education for K-12 and college students in the United States is a priority, but several challenges and unanswered questions remain. Georgia Tech researchers have been working to address many of these challenges and questions and are set to share results from their latest research at the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) annual technical symposium in Minneapolis, Minn., from Feb. 27 to March 2.
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