{"60843":{"#nid":"60843","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Teacher Workshop: AP Prep","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for Computing Education (ICE) is proud to host an Advanced\n Placement Computer Science A workshop on Friday November 19th, 2010 \nfrom 8:00 am - 4:30 pm at GA Tech. The workshop will take place in the \nCollege of Computing, room 345.  Teachers must attend the entire \nworkshop and do 2 hours of additional work on JavaBat.com or on the AP \ndatabase to get 1 PLU. All teachers must register at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/9DPLS6M\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/9DPLS6M\u003C\/a\u003E.  Georgia public school teachers must also register at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ctaern.org\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.ctaern.org\u003C\/a\u003E for workshop CTAERN3081. The registration deadline is November 11, 2010. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis workshop is for teachers who are currently teaching AP CS A.  It \nwill help you prepare your students for the AP CS A exam.  Teachers will\n gain hands-on experience with GridWorld.  They will do exercises with \n2-dimensional arrays.  They will learn about resources that they can use\n to help prepare their students for the exam. We will also cover how to \nteach difficult concepts like inheritance, abstract classes, \npolymorphism, recursion, and sorting. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis workshop is free for Georgia teachers.  Thanks to our National \nScience Foundation grants we can also cover the cost of a substitute.  \nIf you live \u0026gt; 30 miles from Georgia Tech we will pay for your hotel \nfor Thursday night (2 teachers per room), Thursday night dinner, and \nFriday breakfast. If you would prefer a private room you can pay 1\/2 the\n hotel cost. We will cover parking for Georgia teachers who stay at the \nhotel and reimburse parking for Georgia teachers who do not stay at the \nhotel. We will pay for lunch for all teachers. Space is limited to 30.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPlease bring a laptop if you have one, or notify us if you need to borrow a laptop.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27345","created_gmt":"2010-09-08 11:04:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:52:18","author":"Cristina Gonzalez","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2010-11-19T07:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2010-11-19T07:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2010-11-19T07:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2010-11-19 12:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2010-11-19 12:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2010-11-19 12:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFelicia\nBrewster\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:fbrewster@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Efbrewster@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}