Presented by:
Dan Garcia
from
UC Berkeley
<p>Dan Garcia is a Teaching Professor in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. He was selected as an ACM Distinguished Educator in 2012 and ACM Distinguished Speaker in 2019, and is a national leader in the "CSforALL" movement, bringing engaging computer science to students normally underrepresented in the field. </p>
<p>Thanks to four National Science Foundation grants, the "Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC)" non-majors course he co-developed has been shared with over 800 high school teachers...
Mary Fries
from
Beauty and Joy of Computing, Education Development Center, Inc.
The BJC Sparks team have spent the summer of 2025 thinking about how to take all the amazing AI demos we've recently seen and incorporate straightaway or boil them down into middle-or-high-school-appropriate labs and activities. We'd love to hear from others who have been doing this! This will be a chance for all participants to share equally about their activities in the same space, and to hear successes and challenges.
Here is the slide deck from the presentation with links on the last page: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1574NRLUgbN9oRZ0CZCht0OwNZNNXVw8cdC0B_wl0j9g/edit?usp=sharing
- Duration:
- 30 min
- Room:
- Plenary Room
- Conference:
- Snap!Con 2025
- Type:
- Birds of a Feather (BoF)
- Presented via:
- Online
- Difficulty:
- Easy