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June, 2011 - Dr. Alexander Repenning Teaches Game Design to a Sold Out Teacher Workshop at ISTE 2011
Philadelphia, PA – June, 2011 – Dr. Alexander Repenning leads a sold out group of over 90 teachers in a "Game Design for STEM Education Workshop" at the ISTE 2011 Conference in Philadelphia. ISTE, the International Society for Technology in Education, invited Repenning to host his renowned Game Design workshop, after learning about the success of the NSF-funded Scalable Game Design Project. Teachers learn to use video game design, in the AgentSheets software authoring environment, in their classrooms to introduce students to Computational Thinking concepts through the easy-to-use visual programming interface in AgentSheets. Through the Scalable Game Design project, both software and curriculum are made available to teachers who then teach units of varying length in their own districts. Starting with the classic video arcade game "Frogger", students then progress to programming their own games, and after that to scientific simulations applicable in science and math classes.
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June, 2011- Dr. Alexander Repenning, CTO of AgentSheets, Inc. and Research Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado in Boulder is Nominated for their Leadership and Vision at the 2011 CSIA Apex Awards
Dr. Alexander Repenning’s outstanding work and dedication in Computer Science Education leads to recognition in the 10th annual CSIA Apex Awards.
Boulder, CO – June, 2011 – Dr. Alexander Repenning, Chief Technical Officer at AgentSheets, Inc., and Research Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is announced today as a nominee for the 2011 Apex Awards, the prestigious technology awards recognizing outstanding accomplishments and leadership by Colorado’s technology companies and professionals. The winners and finalists will be announced live Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at The Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Denver.
Since the program’s inception in 2000, CSIA’s Apex Awards have been awarded to well-deserved technology companies and executives who lead these amazing companies. Presented in five categories for companies and five categories for professionals, the awards recognize success, innovation, vision, leadership, excellent customer support and community contributions.
“I’m honored to be named a nominee for these prestigious awards that recognize technology professionals and their leadership, ” said Dr. Alexander Repenning. “CSIA is working hard to promote awareness of Colorado Technology companies to keep our state at the forefront of innovation. We’re working to educate the technology innovators and leaders of the future.”
“Leadership and vision is an important aspect for all companies, especially in the technology industry. It’s important for these humble leaders to be recognized for all their accomplishments,” said Su Hawk, president, CSIA. “Our Apex Awards provide them a once-a-year opportunity to celebrate their success, and generate awareness around their work, which include Dr. Repenning’s work in Computer Science education.”
About Dr. Alexander Repenning, CTO and founder of AgentSheets, Inc. and Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder:
Dr. Repenning is an established world leader and recognized innovator in End-User Programming, and the creator of AgentSheets. His research and products have received numerous awards worldwide and he has been named “Best of the Best Innovators” by the Association for Computing Machinery. He is advisor to the National Academy of Sciences, the European Commission, and the National Science Foundation. He is the author of over 60 scientific publications, and a popular speaker. He is currently a part-time professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and has worked with Asea Brown Boveri, Xerox Parc, Apple Computer, and Hewlett Packard.
About CSIA:
CSIA is the leader in uniting and growing Colorado’s information technology industry by providing advocacy, education, business connections, and information, while supporting economic development, unification of technology stakeholders, and larger recognition of the industry and the people involved to develop and promote Colorado’s technology industry. CSIA also works nationally to ensure Colorado’s technology voice is heard, through TECNA, a coalition of technology associations across the United States and Canada, as well as with TechAmerica, the national lobbying organization for federal issues. Since 1994, CSIA has been involved in legislative issues and public policy to represent the information technology industry in Colorado, and has provided a number of annual programs, events and connections to support business success. For more information on CSIA please call (303) 592-4070 or visit www.coloradotechnology.org
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AgentSheets, Inc. Congratulates Ft. Lupton Middle School as the National Middle School of the Year!
The National Association of Middle School Principals has just awarded Fort Lupton Middle School the "National Middle School of the Year."
An exceptional application, written from the student's point of view, illustrated the personal attention given to each student by the school's dedicated teachers. This includes personalized lesson plans, hours of after-school help with homework, and AgentSheets. Fort Lupton is a valued participant in the Scalable Game Design program as part of the NSF-supported ITest research. AgentSheets and Scalable Game Design have been integrated into Math classes at Fort Lupton and in a very innovative Spanish class! "AgentSheets and Scalable Game Design played a significant part in the opportunities offered to our students that made this award possible!" said Melanie Patterson, Principal of Fort Lupton Middle School.
AgentSheets, Inc. and all the researchers at the University of Colorado School of Education and Department of Computer Science would like to extend our Congratulations to Melanie Patterson and all the teachers and students at Fort Lupton Middle School on achieving this great honor!
To view the news story about this event: click here
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AgentSheets Partnership with Girlstart: from zero to Programming
Girlstart is a non-profit organization created to empower girls to excel in math, science, and technology. Founded in 1997 in Austin, Texas, Girlstart has quickly established itself as a best-case practices leader in empowering, educating, and motivating girls to enjoy and become more proficient in math, science and technology. Girlstart programs, including after school workshops, summer technology camps, and more, boast resounding success! Participants are more positive, confident, and enthusiastic about their own future careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
In June 2010, Julie Shannon, co-director of Girlstart, attended our AgentSheets Summer Institute. She was so excited about the AgentSheets 
software and Scalable Game Design curriculum that she trained 8 Girlstart instructors. When Girlstart Summer Camps began in August, AgentSheets was the chosen programming environment. 175 girls built Frogger games, then progressed to “Germ Attack” games. Before the end of their week-long camp, the girls had built scientific simulations of the BP Gulf Oil Spill in AgentSheets to study the environmental impact and diffusion of oil in the Gulf region. This is exactly the kind of game-design-to-scientific-model design progression AgentSheets was built to support.
Again the results were impressive! At a Girlstart summer camp with AgentSheets, U.S. Congressman Michael McCaul (Texas) says "This is the future of STEM education in this country - making science and math exciting for students." With a teacher to student ratio of 1:17, fully 97% of the girls wanted to continue with game design and STEM. Now they can! Thanks to our continuing partnership, Girlstart will bring AgentSheets, game design, and STEM to more schools and more girls in Austin.
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October, 2010 - Visit us at STEMapalooza, Oct 8 - 9, 2010 – booth 306
AgentSheets, Inc. announces our participation at the Stemapalooza Education Conference in Denver, CO on October 8th and 9th. Come visit us at Booth #306. You can do some hands-on programming.
AgentSheets, Inc. experts will be on hand to demonstrate the AgentSheets software and the Scalable Game Design curriculum and program.
As always, we'll have plenty of ideas and information for educators and students. For more information about us check in on our website: www.agentsheets.com
With our new version of AgentSheets, AgentSheets, Inc. is striving more than ever to balance exciting innovations and cutting edge technology with proven pedagogical results for an unparalleled classroom experience of motivation, learning and inspiration.
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October, 2010 - Dr. Repenning to receive 2010 Award of Technology
AgentSheets is thrilled to announce that Dr. Alexander Repenning, creator of AgentSheets software and founder of AgentSheets, Inc. will accept the 2010 Award of Technology at the Telluride Tech Festival October 2nd in beautiful Telluride, Colorado. This award is given to leaders and innovators in the field of technology who have advanced their field and contributed to the world as a whole. Honorees will present their work, and participate in panel discussions about the future of technology. For more information, please visit the Telluride Tech Festival website
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August, 2010 - AgentSheets' interview in the Boulder, CO Daily Camera newspaper. See what our CEO has to say: http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-business/ci_15842160
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June, 2010 - Scalable Game Design Succeeds beyond the wildest iDREAMS...
This week and next teachers and community college students convene at the University of Colorado Boulder campus to participate in the Scalable Game Design Summer Institute teaching program. They are drawn by the success of the iDREAMS project to teach computational thinking skills in middle school through video game design. The project goal was to train 1200 students over the entire three years of the project. Instead, over 1300 middle school students were trained during the first semester alone, and the project is now on track to include 7500 students. The research results have been equally impressive, showing overwhelming positive response and a desire on the part of the students to continue and learn more.
The teachers come from as far away as the Pine Ridge Ogallala Reservation in South Dakota, and even Alaska. They come from such diverse school districts as Boulder Valley, Denver, Aurora, Ft. Lupton, Pueblo, Trinidad, and Brighton. This year, district teachers are joined by educators from Cool Girls and Girl Start, two programs dedicated to helping girls excel in math, science, technology, and arts. Results so far have shown that over 78% of girls in Scalable Game Design classes wish to continue with further classes.
This year's summer institute presents a unique opportunity to support these new teachers, and to prepare them for the upcoming Fall semester. It is now certain that Scalable Game Design motivates students to learn more about computers and computational thinking, now efforts and studies will shift the focus onto more exact learning results during game design sessions, and effective transitions from game design to computational science that preserve the positive motivational aspects of the project. Results this year hope to align more exactly and illuminate direct STEM educational initiative successes. Teachers and school districts involved are taking a bold step forward to bring computer science education back to middle school students, and hope to show that video games are not just for entertainment, but that they are proven to teach significant math and science along the way.
The Summer Institute is part of CU-Boulder's iDREAMS project, funded by the National Science Foundation to bring computer science to diverse middle school classrooms. The iDREAMS project team involves researchers from the computer-science department, School of Education, AgentSheets, Inc., and the Science Discovery and Upward Bound outreach programs. Participants use the Scalable Game Design curriculum and AgentSheets, an award-winning software authoring environment, to teach middle school students to program complete video games, which builds their basic competencies in computational concepts and problem-solving skills that they can apply in a range of technological careers.
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February, 2010 - AgentSheets 3: Another Breakthrough in Teaching and Learning Computer Science!
Since 1996, the internal slogan at AgentSheets, Inc. has been “Revolution, not evolution.” Every new major release version of AgentSheets truly incorporates innovative leaps, pushing the envelope on making computer programming more accessible and enjoyable in new ways.
The innovative Boulder software company has now released AgentSheets 3 worldwide. AgentSheets 3 introduces Conversational Programming, a new patent-pending technology that makes the computer your programming “buddy.” By using the processing power of the computer to tell you visually how the game or simulation you are programming is going to act before it runs, cooperation between programmer and program moves to unprecedented new levels. This new ability lets the programmer see problems before they arise, whether they are simple omission errors, “that's not what I meant to do” errors, unforeseen interaction errors, or more complex design or conceptual errors. Using the characteristically straightforward visual user-interface of AgentSheets, the computer now communicates unobtrusively about your programming actions as you make them, giving you more insight and clarity than ever. Programming is no longer a “black box” activity. Truly a revolution, indeed.
A History of Revolution.
Since his days as a graduate computer science student, AgentSheets Chief Technology Officer and Computer Science Professor Alexander Repenning has sought to change the way computers are programmed. Now an internationally recognized expert and sought after speaker in computer science and computer science education, Dr. Repenning's research has improved the ability of those whose expertise may lie in other areas to communicate that expertise to a computer. Dr. Repenning's pioneering work in 1996 brought one of the first “drag and drop” Visual Programming Languages into being, changing forever the way programming can be taught and learned. With a determination to not only simplify programming and expand its accessibility to students of all levels, Dr. Repenning has enabled students, scientists, and all AgentSheets users to create programs, games and simulations that are as complex and comprehensive as desired. This makes AgentSheets a software environment that you don't grow out of easily, no matter how much you learn! Users include everyone from elementary school students to NASA scientists.
From University to Company. AgentSheets, Inc. has continued to innovate, creating in 1997 the world's first “Behavior Exchange” - an Internet repository for AgentSheets simulations, giving people the ability to share games and simulations over the Internet, and to incorporate and read live information and data from the internet into a simulation. In 2000, AgentSheets, Inc. brought “Collective Simulations” to classrooms with a revolutionary, NIH-supported system for physiology instruction called Mr. Vetro, which allows students to control the biological functions of a simulated patient and observe direct cause and effects of unhealthy actions or behaviors. In 2008, AgentSheets, Inc. has, in collaboration with the University of Colorado, and funded by the National Science Foundation, developed Scalable Game Design - software and curriculum to teach computational science through the design and visual programming of games. This ongoing program allows students to go from playing video games to designing video games in as little as 3 hours. Studies show that the motivation students have for this activity inspires them to study more computational science across gender and ethnic lines. AgentSheets also allows students to progress from building games to building simulations for science or other classes. Teachers can access curriculum developed by their peers, share what they are doing, and connect with other teachers or mentors through this program, which is continually growing and expanding.
Continuing to Revolutionize Computer Science Education. A key mission of AgentSheets, Inc. is to educate a new generation of technology workers by lowering traditional barriers to computer programming and motivating middle school children to explore their career options and aptitudes in this lucrative field. AgentSheets, Inc. works to bridge the ever-widening gap between using computers or other technological gadgets and actually programming or designing them. AgentSheets 3 is an innovative leap toward this goal.
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October, 2009 - Scalable Game Design Chosen for the Education Excellence Fair at the National School Board Association's Technology & Learning Conference
The national school board association has named scalable game design, a joint project of agentsheets, inc., the university of colorado, and the boulder valley school district, to the education excellence fair session of the technology & learning conference. the session will take place on october 28, 2009 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the colorado convention center in denver, colorado.
The Technology & Learning Conference is an innovative annual conference put on by the National School Board Association with the goal of presenting educational technology to district leadership teams from all over the country. Through keynote speeches, hands-on sessions, mini-academies, and other dynamic programming, the Technology & Learning Conference will explore optimizing the use of technology for the best possible education outcomes.
AgentSheets, Inc., in conjunction with the University of Colorado and the Boulder Valley School District, is proud to present Scalable Game Design and welcome this prestigious group of School Leaders to Colorado.
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October, 2009 - AgentSheets invites You to Visit us at STEMapalooza, Oct 16-17, 2009 – booth 607
Boulder, Oct. 13, 2009 - AgentSheets, Inc. announces our participation at the Stemapalooza Education Conference in Denver, CO on October 16th and 17th. Come visit us and chat at Booth #607.
AgentSheets, Inc. experts will be on hand to demonstrate the AgentSheets software and the Scalable Game Design curriculum and program. We are participating in the Sherlock Holmes sleuthing contest put on by conference organizers - so come and use the Bridge Builder Simulation to get your answers and win.
We are also previewing our exciting 3-D Agent Technology with the Mona Lisa Challenge! How well do you know this beautiful work of art? Come and test your knowledge for the chance to win a copy of AgentSheets software! We guarantee a smile!
As always, we'll have plenty of ideas and information for educators and students. For more information, and a booth map, check in on our website: www.agentsheets.com
Let us know we'll see you at Stemapalooza, and you'll automatically be entered into a drawing for a prize. Become of fan of one of our new Facebook pages, AgentSheets or Scalable Game Design, and you will also be entered into the drawing!
With a new version of AgentSheets fast approaching, AgentSheets, Inc. is striving more than ever to balance exciting innovations and cutting edge technology with proven pedagogical results for an unparalleled classroom experience of motivation, learning and inspiration.
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August, 2009 - Week-long Computational Thinking Camp for Girls
"Females don't typically go into computer science because they have the perception that it is just programming, and they think they'll be stuck in front of a computer desk all day" Dr. Linda Sherell, computer science professor at The University of Memphis and her team, launched a girls only week-long Computational Thinking Camp. 14 High school girls used AgentSheets to design online games. Read more...
November, 2008 - ITEST research Grant to bring AgentSheets' Scalable Game Design to Middle Schools
AgentSheets, Inc., an innovative Boulder-based technology company, has been recognized by the University of Colorado (CU) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) as uniquely positioned to help resolve the crisis in IT education. The NSF has awarded CU a $1.5 million-dollar research grant under the ITEST program. AgentSheets Inc. is a subcontractor to the grant, which will bring software and curriculum into middle school classrooms all over Colorado. Scalable Game Design is a unique approach pioneered by AgentSheets Inc. that allows students to learn both design and computer programming skills while participating in the motivating and rewarding task of designing and building their own computer games. Read more...
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June, 2008 - AgentSheets, Inc. named Colorado Top Tech Education Initiative Company
AgentSheets, Inc. has received the 2008 “Colorado Top Tech Education Initiative” award from CSIA, Colorado's Technology Association. Read more...
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