Computer Science Teachers Association - Ohio Chapter

On behalf of OHacksIO, I present a unique hackathon organized and run completely by high school students! From their outreach coordinator: OHacksIO is a non-profit organization whose main goal is to actively encourage and enable students around the world to enjoy, participate, and excel in innovative thinking through a competition style format. In order to achieve this goal, they are planning on hosting a global online hackathon from September 4th-6th. This hackathon is a coding competition in which students will be given a theme and a set time period to create an app, website or game. There are limitless possibilities as to what students can create, as long as they're within bounds of the theme. OHacksIO will be the first global hackathon that will be run by high-schoolers in Ohio.

https://www.ohacksio.org/

Ohio University’s Russ School of Engineering will host 3 one-day online professional development workshops during Summer
2021 for STEM High School Teachers who are Ohio residents and interested in learning more about cyber security. Workshop is
eligible for Ohio Department of Education Continuing Education Units. Learn content about hardware, encryption, and decryption
of passwords, threats to security, and how to introduce these ideas to high school students. Teachers will have 1-3 ready-to go
lessons to share with their students. Participants will enroll in 1 credit of CS 5900: Introduction to Cybersecurity. A tuition waiver
will be provided for all teachers who register by the deadline (June 1, Summer I; June 30th Summer II). To register please
complete the non-degree application here: https://www.ohio.edu/graduate/apply/non-degree-application using code ND9951 and
registration form here: https://ohio.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9MFEqru3XPePJxI. For more information contact Dr. Avinash
Karanth ([email protected]) or Dr. Allyson Hallman-Thrasher ([email protected]).

University of Cincinnati student, Abby Boerwinkle, is starting a project to get girls interested in stem majors by exposing them to different workshops showcasing different stem fields. Before she makes her proposal she has to collect some data to back up her claim of need. If you can, please share her survey with some of your female students so she can get as much data as possible.

UC Women in STEM Camp Survey