World of Opportunities Poster
This engaging new classroom poster, developed in partnership with the Committee for Computing Education in Community Colleges, highlights exciting careers in four key areas: medical informatics, mobile maps and animation, computer mapping, and
cyber forensics. You can download a copy from this website or request copies of the poster for outreach events or for your classroom (CSTA members only).
To order posters, please contact
l.clayborn@hq.acm.org.
Click here to download poster (1,600 KB).
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CSTA Celebrates CSEdWeek with Audio and Video Announcements
As part of their commitment to support CSEdWeek activities, the Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences at the University of
California, Irvine and CSTA have created a series of announcements that schools and teachers can use for morning announcements or in the classroom. These
audio and video files are intended to inform and engage students and to help them understand the many opportunities computer science provides. Teachers:
share these with other educators throughout your school!
Audio Announcement
This 45 second audio announcement by a high school senior points to a broad spectrum of career opportunities and encourages students to celebrate Computer
Science Education Week.
To listen to audio file,
click here.
To download, either right-click (on a PC) or Control-click (on a Mac), and then select "Save As" to save the file directly to your computer.
Video Announcements
This series of five two-minute videos celebrates the contributions that computer science makes in four fields and encourages students to pursue computer
science as an educational pathway and a career.
Day I: Computer Science and Entertainment
Click here to view streaming video
Download Quicktime video here
Download Media Player video here
Day 2: Computer Science and the Environment
Click here to view streaming video
Download Quicktime video here
Download Media Player video here
Day 3: Computer Science and Communications
Click here to view streaming video
Download Quicktime video here
Download Media Player video here
Day 4: Computer Science and Medicine
Click here to view streaming video
Download Quicktime video here
Download Media Player video here
Day 5: Computer Science and Empowerment
Click here to view streaming video
Download Quicktime video here
Download Media Player video here
The U.S. House of Representatives has designated December 9-15, 2012 as Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek)
in recognition of the transformative role of computing and necessity of rigorous computer science education at all levels.
CSTA is delighted to have worked with ACM on this major accomplishment and we encourage all of our members to get involved!
Please visit the CSEdWeek Web site at www.CSEdWeek.org to
access computer science education resources and participate in all of the social networking for this event.
