Summer Institute 2010

The Summer Institute 2010 is a program bringing students from community colleges, tribal colleges and teachers from middle schools together to learn about how to use game design for computer science education and other STEM disciplines (e.g. Math and Science). The Scalable Game Design project supports teachers through a grant by the National Science Foundation.

This year, the new participants (both teachers and students) will be brought up to speed in the first week of the Institute. Then the old participants will join the group for the second week to learn about the next steps in the Scalable Game Design project. Last year, teachers were asked to teach (and CC students to support) a short module on how to build Frogger to serve mainly as a motivation to get middle school students interested in computer science and game design. This year, we will be teaching advanced game design and transitioning to computational science.

Dates &amp; schedules for this year's Summer Institute:

 * Week 1: New Students &amp; New Teachers (June 1, 2010 to June 5, 2010)
 * Week 2: Returning Participants join new ones (June 7, 2010 to June 11, 2010)

Grading Guidelines
Since participants are getting credit for the Summer Institute class, they are required to submit assignments for grading. The grading criteria are as follows:


 * Week 1 Grading
 * Week 2 Grading

Curriculum

 * Advanced Games to Computational Science curriculum:
 * Pac-Man
 * Ants
 * STEM simulations

End of Summer '10 Institute Surveys: June 11, 2010

 * Teachers/Administrators http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22ASDT2WQ6G
 * Students http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22ASDQQWNRA

Sample Computational Thinking Patterns Quiz
CT Quiz (June 10): http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AS4YWRBWA

Photos

 * pictures from the 2010 Summer Institute