CS4HS@Sydney

CS4HS at Sydney is a free two day workshop for high school maths, science and computing teachers. The first CS4HS @ Sydney was held in the School of Information Technologies at the University of Sydney on Thursday the 12th and Friday the 13th of April, 2012.

We will be holding a second CS4HS @ Sydney workshop in September. Register your interest here.

The first CS4HS @ Sydney workshop introduced participants to the design and study of algorithms that are used daily in applications such as Internet search engines, online advertising auctions, algorithmic trading on the stock market, genome sequencing, and artificial intelligence and that have made an impact in our society.

The CS4HS workshops are sponsored by Google and include informative talks by industry and academic leaders and demonstrate engaging ways to introduce recent developments in IT into high school computing classes, as well as incorporating computer science skills into high school science and mathematics classes in line with the proposed national curriculum. Participants also have the opportunity to interact with senior software engineers from Google.

Our workshops aim to provide teachers with support, materials and real world examples of computation in action for use in a classroom setting, including text materials and data for experiments. We present recent developments in the field of computer science and the exciting problems that students can work towards.

Discussion opportunities include a panel of industry representatives, academics and current university students, with a specific focus on how IT skills and algorithmic thinking are necessary for many careers, not just in computer science but also encompassing engineering, science, medical research, architecture and the arts.

We also showcase some of the extension activities and programmes run by the university to extend academically gifted students, such as the National Computer Science School and NCSS Challenge.

The workshop is free of charge and seats are limited. For teachers outside the Sydney area a limited number of travel grants are available.

To register your interest, please fill out this form.

Enquiries to Nicky Ringland, Outreach Officer, University of Sydney, cs4hs@it.usyd.edu.au.