National Programming Challenge for Girls Camp - 12 Dec 2012 - 14 Dec 2012

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Venue

The camp will be held in Cotton 246 (Networking Lab) and Cotton 350 (Common Room), in the Cotton Building on Victoria University's Kelburn Campus. Here are links to a Kelburn Campus map and Wellington City map. Please note that on the Wellington Downtown Map, Victoria University is not marked but is in the large open area bordered by The Terrace at the bottom, and Salamanca Road on the right.

Accommodation

Attendees will be staying at Te Puni Village, one of Victoria University's newest student accommodation centers, and only a few minutes walk from where the camp activities will be run.Schedule

Schedule

The camp sessions are:

(there'll be snack breaks in the morning and afternoon as well - not shown here)

All sessions will be held in Cotton 246.

Wednesday

9:30 Welcome

10:00 Introduction to Python Programming

12:30 Lunch

13:00 HCI Lab with Multi-touch Tables

16:00 Why Computer Science? (Impact on the World)

16:30 People of Computer Science

Thursday

9:30 Electronic Prototyping with Arduino

12:30 Lunch

13:00 Algorithms

16:00 Show off Arduino Boards to High School Teachers

Friday

9:30 Mobile Programming on Android

12:00 Discussion and Farewell

13:00 Camp Ends

Contact

The local site organiser is Dr Stuart Marshall at the School of Engineering and Computer Science (stuart@ecs.vuw.ac.nz)This is a three-day camp for the winners of the seven regional Programming Challenge for Girls contests.The girls will have the opportunity to take part in a range of activities, includingArduino, Android, Python, mobile devices, the touch table, and computer algorithms.

Full information to be available by the end of Tuesday, December 4th.

Stuart Marshall and Daniel Cope will help run the event.
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