Through the University of Colorado's Scalable Game Design project, CSNYC, a nonprofit bringing computer science instruction to NYC schools, is starting SGD New York! Pilot schools will use AgentSheets, Inc. software to bring proven computational thinking SGD curricula to their students.
Hear Dr. Alex on CPR!
Dr. Alex Repenning, inventor of AgentSheets and AgentCubes, will be interviewed on Colorado Public Radio on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014. He will be on the "Colorado Matters" show, which airs at 10am and again at 7pm.
Article in CSTA Voice
A great article on Scalable Game Design's success in Broadening Participation in the CSTA Voice Newsletter, Research Review "From Games to STEM - A Sustainable Path to Broaden Participation" on page 6
Programming is hard and boring...
Dr. Alex Repenning delivered the Keynote Speech, entitled "Programming is Hard and Boring: addressing cognitive and affective challenges in Computer Science education" at the Rocky Mtn. Conference of the Consortium for Computing on Fri. Oct. 12th. For more information, go to page 2 : http://www.ccsc.org/rockymt/
Innovative after-school program wins Boulder Prep an NSF Grant
Raising the ceiling on Computational thinking tools: this Boulder Camera article is about using AgentCubes to teach programming in Boulder Prep High School.
Lowering the Bar to Computer Science: a great report from KUNC showing students in Fourth grade learning computational thinking with AgentSheets!
Gaming Tools Kids Want to Use - Talk/Panel
Dr. Alex Repenning, Computer Science Professor and CTO at AgentSheets, joined Tamara Hudgins (Girlstart), Virginia Mcarthur (Zynga), Ward Tisdale (AMD) and David Gerding (Columbia College) at the talk/panel of the "Gaming Tools Kids Want to Use" at the SXSW in Austin, March 13. Join the conversation about authorship, identity, creativity, and the tools kids use for developing serious and social games.
Google's National CS4HS Program returns to Boulder
2012 CS4HS participants at the Google offices in Boulder, CO
Scalable Game Design Summer Institute Promotes STEM Education!
Our 2012 Summer Institute for Teachers in June was a roaring success for the iDreams Project and kickoff for CE21! Check out our facebook photo album here.
Introducing our Computational Thinking Foundation & Chic@s Code - winners of a Google Rise Partnership award!
Thanks to the 2015 Google RISE Partnership awarded to Scalable Game Design Mexico: Chic@s Code, girls in middle schools in the state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico will be learning computational thinking through Game Design. The Scalable Game Design (SGD) Project at the University of Colorado in partnership with the Computational Thinking Foundation, Tecnológico de Monterrey, the Instituto Innovación Transferencia Tecnología, Secretaria de Educación de Nuevo León, and the Shodor Education Foundation will introduce game design to more than 3,500 middle school students, including 1,700 girls. This partnership will provide computer science education through the proven Scalable Game Design curriculum. Chic@s Code will also produce Spanish language SGD curriculum for use all over the U.S.
Chic@s Code will provide hands-on computer programming and computational thinking activities to students and teachers, engaging and motivating them and opening up a new range of possibilities for students to pursue in education and as careers. In addition this project will facilitate increasing the awareness to parents, the local and larger regional communities that a future in fields of technology are not only available, but achievable.
AgentSheets & AgentCubes are revolutionary tools that let you create your own games and simulations. Users of all ages can build games, interactive demonstrations, modifiable simulations, and more! Discover a new relationship to technology as you quickly CREATE games and computational science applications with all sorts of multi-media, and SHARE your creations online.
AgentSheets rule-based, drag-and-drop interface is easy to learn and hard to outgrow! Our users range from school districts to NASA scientists; city planners to clinical psychiatrists; middle school teachers to university professors, and students of all ages!
2012 CS4HS participants at the Google offices in Boulder, CO
