{"id":16,"date":"2014-01-21T03:30:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T03:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/?p=16"},"modified":"2014-01-21T03:30:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T03:30:34","slug":"boffin-branksome-grads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/2014\/01\/21\/boffin-branksome-grads\/","title":{"rendered":"Boffin Branksome Grads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/files\/2014\/01\/sherlock-holmes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17 aligncenter\" alt=\"sherlock-holmes\" src=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/files\/2014\/01\/sherlock-holmes-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/files\/2014\/01\/sherlock-holmes-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/files\/2014\/01\/sherlock-holmes.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 960px) 75vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">Yup&#8230;I just made a Sherlock Holmes reference (<\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em\" href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/boffin\" target=\"_blank\">S2, E2<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">). It was only a matter of time, considering my unhealthy obsession with the show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now bear with me&#8230;my mind is making a connection here.<\/p>\n<p>Since my last post (too long ago), I have had a good run with promoting computer science with our students.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We had a panel of female new media artists &amp; developers from <a href=\"http:\/\/learninglabs.org\/members\/girls-learning-code\/\" target=\"_blank\">Girls Learning Code<\/a> in to speak to our middle school students. It was a great presentation and started a lot of great conversations with our students about opportunities in the industry.<\/li>\n<li>We had course selection presentations for Grade 8 students (selecting Gd 9 courses), where we snazzed up and revamped the computer science course. Great interest from students (AND parents!) about the program. We&#8217;ll see if it translates to actual course selection.<\/li>\n<li>We had a great experience with our innovation club at the FIRST competition in November. No wins but such a great team-building experience for us, and allowed me to think about how we can build the program for next year.<\/li>\n<li>I had a coding competition for the <a href=\"http:\/\/code.org\/hourofcode\" target=\"_blank\">Hour of Code<\/a> with a number of middle school students. Despite my smack talk, they obliterated me and far surpassed my capabilities. That was kind of the point anyways. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is what I&#8217;m thinking of pursuing further&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gathering data on the progression of students who have taken computer science at Branksome. What did they take in subsequent years? What did this lead to in post-secondary education?<\/li>\n<li>Gathering data on BH alum who are currently working in the technology industry. What was their career &amp; education path (both within BH and post-secondary).<\/li>\n<li>Conduct a survey of current Grade 8 students and their perception of computer science (I teach all of the Grade 8&#8217;s drama&#8230;so I can easily gather this data with them in class).<\/li>\n<li>Have conversations with our math &amp; science departments to brainstorm ways we can cross-promote STEM careers in our classes.<\/li>\n<li>Analyze all of this data to determine where we are succeeding in getting girls into the tech industry, and where we can still improve.<\/li>\n<li>Research post-secondary computer science programs and their admission requirements. Perhaps present this to our senior school guidance department.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup&#8230;I just made a Sherlock Holmes reference (S2, E2). It was only a matter of time, considering my unhealthy obsession with the show. Now bear with me&#8230;my mind is making a connection here. Since my last post (too long ago), I have had a good run with promoting computer science with our students. We had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/2014\/01\/21\/boffin-branksome-grads\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Boffin Branksome Grads&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-action-plan","category-girls-in-stem","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}