More CS Links

• Association for Computing Machinery careers site. Provides access to a brochure to prepare High School students for careers in computing, as well as other items such as the "Top 10 Reasons to Major in Computing," and "Skills You'll Learn if you Study Computing".
• Loyola Evoke Materials by Dr. William Honig to help explore whether a computing career is for you.
• Presentations from CMU and IU (mostly)
  • Identify the computer scientists: Slide quiz mostly based on CMU Roadshow. (Click on the questions to see the answers.)
  • Excerpt of remainder of CMU Roadshow courtesty of women@scs.
    (After opening, right click and choose "Edit slides" if you want to see the notes.)
  • About CMU Roadshow with some nice links to extras .
  • Local PowerPoint for IU Just Be.
    Or download zipped with supplements.
• Some Contests and Programs for High School Students
  • U. of Illinois ChicTech and TAC. ChicTech (pronounced "sheek-tek") includes a Technical Ambassadors Competition for high school girls.
  • Schubmehl-Prein Prize for Best Essay on Social Impact of Computing. Essay Contest for high school juniors; includes links to past essays.
  • FIRST runs robotics contests.
  • The National Academy of Engineering runs an annual contest, usually an essay contest.
  • We hope to restart Camp Infinity at Loyola U. This is a summer computing camp for high school women. See the Loyola home page for Camp Infinity
  • MIT Women's Technology Program in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
  • IBM Mainframe Contest and many other resources. Mostly geared towards university students, but high school students have also won the mainframe contest, for example.
• Computer Science Teachers Association Resources include a K-12 CS Model Curriculum.
• MIT OpenCourseWare: Highlights for High School