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Georgia Tech program to promote computing
By Clay Breshears (Intel) (194 posts) on October 7, 2009 at 11:45 am
I just read an article about an NSF grant to continue and expand the Georgia Computes! program. (My state has gotten funding to start a similar program.) The program is seeking to broaden the appeal of pursuing CS degrees especially among girls and women, minorities, and persons with disabilities across the state of Georgia. The program sponsors summer camps, after-school workshops, and training for high school teachers to better teach computing skills. The reach is for students from K through postgraduate.
An ambitiuos program with nice goals. Doing some cursory skimming on associated sites, I don't see anything with parallelism involved. I expect that this may not be a high priority of the program. To be honest, though, I'm not sure what sorts of computing are being done in the K-8 levels, so there may not be any chances for parallel programming to be anything more than something that is mentioned and played with as a "thought problem." I don't think there is a parallel version of LOGO.
Intel sponsored a parallel programming bootcamp for chosen students of Brooklyn Technical Hich School. Even though everything that was done during that week might not work in the Georgia Computes! program at all levels, some of the activities might be adaptable to use as an introduction to parallel programming concepts. I hope some of the Intel Academic Community members at Georgia Tech and other schools in Georgia will be able to exert some influence in including parallelism into the program.
Start students on parallelism early and keep students aware of parallelism often.
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