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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The Institute for Computing Education (ICE) is proud to host an Advanced
Placement Computer Science A workshop on Friday November 19th, 2010
from 8:00 am - 4:30 pm at GA Tech. The workshop will take place in the
College of Computing, room 345. Teachers must attend the entire
workshop and do 2 hours of additional work on JavaBat.com or on the AP
database to get 1 PLU. All teachers must register at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9DPLS6M. Georgia public school teachers must also register at http://www.ctaern.org for workshop CTAERN3081. The registration deadline is November 11, 2010.
This workshop is for teachers who are currently teaching AP CS A. It
will help you prepare your students for the AP CS A exam. Teachers will
gain hands-on experience with GridWorld. They will do exercises with
2-dimensional arrays. They will learn about resources that they can use
to help prepare their students for the exam. We will also cover how to
teach difficult concepts like inheritance, abstract classes,
polymorphism, recursion, and sorting.
This workshop is free for Georgia teachers. Thanks to our National
Science Foundation grants we can also cover the cost of a substitute.
If you live > 30 miles from Georgia Tech we will pay for your hotel
for Thursday night (2 teachers per room), Thursday night dinner, and
Friday breakfast. If you would prefer a private room you can pay 1/2 the
hotel cost. We will cover parking for Georgia teachers who stay at the
hotel and reimburse parking for Georgia teachers who do not stay at the
hotel. We will pay for lunch for all teachers. Space is limited to 30.
Please bring a laptop if you have one, or notify us if you need to borrow a laptop.
