Adventures in Alice Programming Workshop for High School Teachers South Carolina • Summer 2015 Alice is an object-oriented programming language that is used to create 3-D animations. It has been designed to make object-oriented programming easier to teach and learn and also to attract a larger, more inclusive audience to programming and eventually to careers in a computer field. Teaching Alice in a first computer programming course provides students with a positive experience with computing and programming making these students more likely to choose a computing major and to succeed in their college degree program. Alice is made freely available by its creators at Carnegie Mellon University. For more information about Alice, visit www.alice.org. A workshop will be held during summer 2015 to train teachers in Alice and to support teachers as they develop curricular materials to be used in their own classrooms. • Week one, Monday - Friday: Alice training • Week two, Monday - Wednesday: Alice Training and Curricular development (must attend both weeks) June 8 - 12: College of Charleston, Charleston, SC June 15 - 17: College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 1. Teachers will be trained in Alice and develop instructional classroom materials. 2. Teachers will receive a certificate of completion for 70 hours of classroom work. 3. On-campus lodging, breakfast and lunch will be provided. 4. Teachers will be paid an $800 stipend for completing the workshop. 5. Alice classroom support will be provided during the 2015 – 16 academic year. 6. A community of Alice high school teachers in the state of South Carolina will be developed. Teachers will meet at College of Charleston for a one-day workshop during 2016. http://tinyurl.com/alicesc2015 With questions contact: RoxAnn Stalvey • [email protected] This workshop is being offered through a grant funded by the National Science Foundation. Funding is in place for first time Adventures in Alice workshop attendees.