AMHERST, Mass. – Building on its success in drawing more women and under-represented minority students to study computer science at Massachusetts public colleges and universities over the past five years, the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology...

The issues in South Carolina are different from the ones in Georgia, and they’re different again in Massachusetts and California. That’s what’s making this ECEP Alliance work interesting and complicated.

Below are some common themes that have surfaced from ECEP's work so far, based on ...

On November 15, 2013, a meeting organized by ECEP brought together 20 professional development providers in Massachusetts. The group discussed teacher needs and the current training opportunities available for computer science educators--from Massachusetts-grown projects like App Inventor,...

This summer, ECEP helped teachers develop plans to bring Andriod app-making into the classroom through a weeklong introduction to App Inventor. Find out what went on with this write-up from MIT student Joanie, who assisted with this workshop: ...

Atlanta hosted 300 computing professionals, students, and faculty for the STARS Celebration Conference August 15-17, 2013, and ECEP leaders were there to share strategies with the STARS Leadership Corp students who reach out to engage more young people in computing in their regions across the...

Twenty-three computer science teachers from 15 states gathered in mid June for a daylong workshop with leaders of the Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) Alliance in an effort to identify opportunities to help states improve formal computing education pathways. Held in Quincy, Mass. on...

Georgia Tech's Institute for Computing Education (ICE) is hosting 3 professional development workshops this summer in Atlanta Georgia.

Getting started with Java - May 28-31st 2013 taught by Crystal Furman and Kyle Justice - both experienced teachers of beginning programming and AP CS A....

Computer science (CS) educators in Massachusetts have dozens of workshops to choose from this summer to hone their technology and teaching skills, thanks to the Expanding Computing Education (ECEP) Alliance, the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), and other providers. A full...

ATLANTA – November 15, 2012 – Through a five-year, $6.24 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Massachusetts Amherst will form a partnership to further grow the pipeline of students in U.S. computer science programs...