Members of the Mobile CSP team (left-to-right Ralph, Jim, Pauline, Chinma, Chery, and Jen) traveled to Philadelphia on Sunday to host a workshop at ISTE 2015 (International Society for Technology in Education) on building socially useful apps in App Inventor.
On Thursday, May 28nd, the 2nd Annual Mobile CSP Expo was held at Trinity College. Students who were enrolled in the Mobile CSP course during the 2014-2015 academic year were invited to demonstrate the apps they had created during the course. Approximately 70 students participated in the event.
On August 15, twenty high school students from Hartford area presented their apps to their clients at McCook auditorium, Trinity College. During six week internship with the Mobile Apps for Hartford, they have developed mobile apps for their clients, six public or non profit organizations in Hartford.
Old State House: Charles Bittner, Alan Jackson, Greidy Montalvo, Kevin Paradis
Department of Families, Children, Youth, and Recreation - Youth Services Division: Samad Ahmad, Justin Angeles, Joseph Bodington, Rasheeda Samih
YOUMedia, Hartford Public Library: Tatianya Ashley, Thomson Kelly, Amanda LaManna, Obdulio Santiago
RiseUP: Samad Ahmad, Justin Angeles, Joseph Bodington, Rasheeda Samih
TheaterWorks: Alicia Chiang, Owusu Darko, Raykwon Kerr, Sean McCarthy
The Mayor of Hartford: Nyasia Bagot, David Deer, Kristopher Marques, Benjamin Trueax
The 2014 Cohort of Mobile CSP teachers (left) gave final presentations in McCook auditorium.
The six-week course was held at Trinity College from July 7 - August 15. Fourteen high schools from the following towns were represented at this year's course: Bloomfield, Hartford, West Hartford, East Hartford, Milford, Bridgeport, Manchester, Simsbury, and Westbrook.
The Mobile CSP team (Chinma, Pauline, Jim Veseskis, and Ralph) traveled to Chicago to the
2014 CSTA Conference to present a 3-hour workshop on the Mobile CSP curriculum.
Mobile Computer Science Principles
Ralph Morelli, Chinma Uche, Pauline Lake and James Veseskis
The CS Principles (CSP) Project is an effort to develop a language-neutral, breadth-first advanced
placement (AP) course in CS. MobileCSP is an effort to train high school teachers to teach a CSP course