[TOS] NYC high school for software engineering
Mel Chua
mel at purdue.edu
Mon Jan 23 18:18:48 UTC 2012
Was reading the news today...
http://gcn.com/Articles/2012/01/19/New-York-high-school-software-engineering.aspx?Page=1
Short version is that in "September New York City will open its first
public high school dedicated to training kids in software development:
The Academy for Software Engineering."
I wonder how they plan on recruiting, how they plan on teaching, and so
on... the article reports that "the school was the brainchild of Mike
Zamansky, a teacher at Stuyvesant High School," so if anyone knows more
about this I'd be super-curious about it.
Would they be interested in TOS? I know we have some folks from New York
colleges here who might be interested in enrolling graduates from this
sort of program, and wonder if starting high school students early in
the same (H?)FOSS projects as some nearby colleges could be a nice
opportunity for vertical learning, peer teaching, and involving students
in a community of practice that is real *and* also has scaffolding to
accommodate them.
--Mel
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