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__From Joe Kmoch, President SIGCT:__ The iFair Event: promote middle and high school kid’s excitement about potential careers in information technology in a tradeshow atmosphere followed by an interactive panel. There have been four fairs in the last year involving about 2000 students. Two more are planned. About a dozen businesses exhibit from a core about 20 companies. Additionally 6-8 post secondary CS/IT programs also exhibit.

Poster Session today 7-1-2008 at NECC 1:30 pm -3:00 pm HGCC Tower View Lobby, Table: 21. Learn how a business/school partnership has developed and implemented events to promote computer science, information technology, and engineering careers to kids in grades 7-12. http://ifair-pbwiki.com

__From Brian Harvey, UC Berkeley Computer Science Professor__ ES LOGO Programming: “The most powerful of software tools is the programming language ... an important role for the teacher is as a sort of human tool, a consultant on ways and means, rather than an initiator of activities for students." - 1980. Currently I am teaching Logo to 4th and 5th graders in an after-school program at a local elementary school where I volunteer two days a week. (I spend the other three days doing what I get paid for. :-) The school has eMacs on which I've installed Berkeley Logo, Microworlds, and Scratch. [|http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/].

__From Chris Stephenson, Istanbul University, Turkey__ High School Computer Clubs Project: There are around ten hours of video and ten weeks of worksheets. Around 1200 high school students have visited the site, though the number consistently following the program was far lower. The mode student was in the second year of high school. We had a few middle school students. The whole site is only in Turkish, I am afraid. You need to subscribe to look round the site, but it is a simple automatic process that you can guess without knowing the language, http://kleene.cs.bilgi.edu.tr/learn/login/index.php; English version: Istanbul_Stephenson.pdf on file.

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