July 15, 2015 - From its initial four states, the ECEP Alliance grew to include representatives from 11 states and territories by the end of May 2015. Four new states came on board that month (Maryland, New Hampshire, Texas, and Utah) to join the others states (Alabama, California, Georgia,...
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Monday, June 29, 2015
June 29, 2015 – The NSF Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) alliance is providing workshop and “seed” funds to expand computing summer camps at colleges, universities, and high schools across the United States. On December 13, 2014 ECEP co-PI Barbara Ericson hosted a workshop in Santa...
Monday, June 1, 2015
June 1, 2015 - ECEP has awarded funding to support efforts in South Carolina, Maryland, Texas, and Puerto Rico that will improve educational efforts in computer science in those states. As part of its mission, ECEP Alliance invited members to apply for mini-grants to support statewide and...
Friday, May 15, 2015
May 15, 2015 - Two new reports on issues of diversity in STEM credit ECEP and co-PI Barbara Ericson with contributions. In February 2015, Advancing Equity through More and Better STEM Learning was released by The...
Saturday, May 2, 2015
May 2, 2015 - In April, ECEP and CAITE sponsored a pilot series of free virtual professional development webinars to “train the trainers” for computer science PD providers in Massachusetts. Webinars were one-hour in length and led by Barbara Ericson, ECEP Co-PI and Director of Computing...
Sunday, March 15, 2015
March 15, 2015 - Twenty-eight students and faculty from 12 states braved Boston’s February weather to attend a panel session organized by ECEP at the Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing 2015, titled “State-level Computing Education Reform for Diversity.” The panel featured leaders from...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
ECEP will be represented through a number of panels and workshops during the 2015 SIGCSE conference. The conference runs March 4-7, 2015 in Kansas City, Missouri. Please see their website for more details. Below, a preview of ECEP’s contributions to...
Friday, December 26, 2014
On Thursday, December 18, ECEP PI Mark Guzdial hosted a Transfer Summit at Georgia Tech. In attendance were 15 professionals from 11 different institutions in the University System of Georgia, representing both two-year and four-year degree institutions. The goal of the summit was to ease...
Friday, December 26, 2014
Tech entrepreneur Chris Klaus (for more on his efforts go here) has gathered stakeholders in a “Georgia Coding” group to push on improving computing in...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
This year, Computer Science Education Week is more popular and ambitious in scope than ever before. December 8-14, students across the country, and internationally, will be introduced to the basic concepts of computer science. Many will be using...