CAS Mind Map 1
Description of Possible Ideas
Learning Outcomes
Need/Purpose
Projected Outcomes
Skills + Knowledge
Cas Strands
Why is this project important?
Who will benefit from this project?
Participants
Service Type
Anup Vellanki Public relations and the marketer for the event: Creation of promotional Flyers, Design Graphics for the event. Host one day of Camp.
Aneesh Vellanki Event Assistant: Conducts part of the lesson plan, Participates in 1 on 1 instruction, and facilitates the lesson. Brings Candy for prizes and to encourage question asking. Host one day of Camp.
Alex Jamison Event Instructor: Conducts part of lesson plan, Generates activities and itinerary before event to ensure a complete schedule. Handle any technical issues should they arise. Host one day of Camp.
IB Learner Attributes
21st Century Skills
What will you need to learn?
Kids receive a great lesson while being engaged with us. We hope to create a diverse learning plan with many hands-on activities.
Our goals include an easy setup of the event with a hands-on experience with the kids, making the event fun and worthwhile. All while instilling a love for computer science with a productive and fun session of lessons.
We hope to garner a large audience of at least 15+ kids
Direct
Direct teaching and running of Bootcamp. We will be working directly with kids to give them instruction and all of these activities are to be conducted in person.
Creativity
Initiative and Planning: Act as a leader to carry out different activities and gain hands-on skills. Self-made lesson plans help us to plan for something beforehand and carry out the lesson plans. You will have to be a leader during this Bootcamp and help the kids to follow your instructions.
Strength and Growth: Gain valuable experiences as you plan out this event yourself and become better acquainted with content creation and instruction. There will be lesson plans that we each give out to the group each day which are created by us. We work on our leadership skills and articulation in the process.
Service
Development Format
Nease Computing Olympiad
Programming Format
5 complete days of 2 hours each day of activities and lessons with 4 days completely dedicated to learning and lessons. Kids work on finishing a final product on the last day that will be judged and awarded a prize. Throughout the week, students will receive 30 mins to work on their projects and we will perform checkups to ensure they have included the use of the day's skill within their creations which also guarantee prizes. Prizes will be provided and handeled by us.
Receive help from Club Volunteers and make the project into a group activity for service hours. Can be much wider scale and split students into groups each with a mentor of the Computing Olympiad.
A Battle Royale like structure, with an elimination format to encourage the kids to put forth more effort. These kids compete to see how much they have learned by the end of the week perhaps with questions we give them or a demonstration of their skills through activity. There can be different divisons these kids need to pass to reach the ultimate prize, the divisons can be different concpets they need to master in order to reach higher divisions.
Provide the community with new sources of creativity and excite kids in our community to pursue a tech field free of charge. We hope to build a strong foundation and leave these kids with a lasting skillset applicable to every part of their lives, now and beyond.
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity and will be a great learning experience for us. We have always wanted to accomplish something like this. Programming is one of my favorite hobbies and being able to share that with others is important to me. CAS has given me the device to churn this into motion.
Our community does not have enough free opportunities for kids to develop in this field. It is extremely important to start early and we hope to motivate kids for their lifetimes.
People who visit the public library and are interested in learning how to code. Kids 3rd grade to 8th grade.
The Participants and Volunteers of our project can be granted volunteer hours from this event by the library.
Parents and Librarians as this is a free activity to increase activity in the Library and also can act as a day care.
Thomas Olinger Event Organizer: Reserving a spot at the local library and organizing computers for use, Conducts part of the lesson plan, Researches topics for the lesson plan. Host one day of Camp.
Club Sponsor is Mr. Kirsche
Supervisors include parents and librarians.
Challenge and Skills: Most of us do not have experience in public speaking and dare dream of participating in an event of this caliber. Our goal is to add on to our list of completed activities and garner a new profound skill of articulating with proficiency.
The Bootcamp is unpaid and voluntary and also provides a learning benefit for us and the kids. We are giving our services to the library free of charge and providing all of the materials involved.
Creative thinking is involved with our completion of different tasks to complete the Bootcamp. The lesson plans and flyers will require us to think of different ways to convey our information. The different activities that we will instruct need to be planned out and relate to Computer Science.
Communicators
We will need to practice articulating my ideas better and establish a great lesson for these kids. I will be tested on my ability to handle students so it will take practice.
Collaboration: Being part of a team and taking up one's own responsibility in this project. Working together to ensure the lesson runs smoothly
Collaborative Skills: Learn the implications of teaching and handling young kids. We are going to be interacting with many kids and working together is an important part in ensuring the Bootcamp runs smoothly for everyone.
Creativity: Taking completely new concepts and transforming them into an easy to learn and easy to teach format for students.
Communication: Developing answers to any questions that arise during the lessons and providing help to students should they ask. Conveying ideas smoothly throughout the lesson
Critical Thinking: Finding new approaches to questions by students or technical issues that should arise.
ATL Skills
Organization skills
Media Literacy
Collaboration
Interaction
Risk Takers
Caring
We need to learn different styles of conducting the lesson plans like the activities, methods of learning, and etc.
Main Idea: Establishing a schoolwide programming competition
Cas Strands
Creativity
Creative thinking is involved with our completion of different tasks in order to complete the competition. The different problems we make for the competition will have to be creative and original in order to give the students a fun yet challenging experience.
Service
The creation of this competition is completely voluntary and will give students in the school incentive to pursue computer science. Additionally, it will give students with knowledge of computer science a chance to shine in an all inclusive competition. Thus bettering the school community.
Skills + Knowledge
IB Learner Attributes
Risk Takers
Caring
Communicators
21st Century Skills
Communication: Articulating thoughts and ideas about programming and initiating the instruction with proficiency so the kids know what they are actually doing.
Decision Making: Reflecting critically on the learning experiences of the kids and trying to make their experience better.
Solve Problems: Clear doubts and even solve any technical difficulties at the competition.
Working Creatively with others: Develop, implement and communicate new creative ideas to the kids effectively.
What will you need to learn?
We will need to practice articulating our ideas better and establish a better competitive experience for all the students participating..
We need to learn the methods of conducting a competition as well as learn how to interact with other students.
ATL Skills
Organization skills
Media Literacy
Collaboration
Interaction
Projected Outcomes
We hope to create a fun experience for all students where they can meet new people with similar interests in computer science.
To provide the students of Allen D. Nease with an incentive to explore the world of Computer Science with hopes of winning prizes.
We hope to provide students with the chance to demonstrate their strength in computer science and put their knowledge to the test. This competition will provide them an outlet to view their future competition in computer science job and also figure out what areas they need to improve in
Need/Purpose
Why is this project important?
We have always wanted to hold a school wide competition to see who is the best and compete in fun spirited tournaments with our peers. This is the best way to do so and establish who is the champion of the keyboard.
Through this demonstrated, school-wide competition we will attract the eyes of many students who are unfamiliar with programming. By inducing them into a competition, they can get a firsthand view of the thrilling aspects of Computer Science, something that is usually unpopular at this school.
The school has been dull without many stimulants for aspiring Computer Science students and this competition will rejuvenate a Computer Science culture for our school and hopefully attract more interest to fill the empty Computer Science classes at the school.
Who will benefit from this project?
Students who are interested in programming can practice their skills.
We will benefit from this project because we will learn how to host a school-wide competition as well as learn how to interact with other students while being the event coordinators.
The Nease Computing Olympiad club will also benefit from this event since it will also act as a source of advertising for the club.
Participants
Anup Vellanki Public relations and the marketer for the event: Creation of promotional Flyers, Design Graphics for the event, and takes pictures during the competition, serves as photographer. Host one day at Nease High School.
Aneesh Vellanki Materials Manager: Locates materials and competition questions for use. Finds logistics needed for the competition to be enhanced. Sets up the computers before the competition and handles all technical implications. Host one day at Nease High School.
Alex Jamison Event Moderator: Will watch over the participants of the event and make sure there is no cheating. They will essentially act as a referee. Additionally, they will be in charge of making and reviewing the team applications
Thomas Olinger Event Organizer/Host: Reserves the location for competition and speaks to sponsors about procuring the right materials for the competition. Handles the prizes and speaks to the competitors, serves as host of competition.
Service Type
Direct
We will directly affecting the students participating in the competition by providing them with the problems and the opportunities to better themselves
Learning Outcomes
Commitment & Perseverance: With such a large scale event there will undoubtedly be many unexpected complications with the competitions that could lead to a lot of stress. However, by pushing through these struggles it will help improve our commitment and perseverance
Challenge and Skills: Organizing an event with so many potential participants will be very challenging, but it will help develop our public speaking and leadership skills through advertising and having to explain the competition to everyone interested.
Initiative and Planning: Gain valuable experiences as you plan out this event yourself and become better acquainted with content creation and instruction. Additionally, since there will potentially be hundreds of participants it will take extensive planning to ensure that goes smoothly.
Collaborative Skills: Even though each team member has different roles and tasks that they are in charge of, we will still need to look over everything and largely work on most things together in order to have a coherent and cohesive event.
Description of Possible Ideas
Development Format
A tournament bracket format is another possibility. The teams would all face off in one-on-one competitions where they will both be given the same problem and the first to complete it advances to the next round. all of the questions would be different for each round since the rounds would not be concurrent.
Nease Computing Olympiad
Receive help from Club Volunteers and make the project into a group activity for service hours. Can be much wider scale and split students into groups each with a mentor of the Computing Olympiad.
Club Sponsor is Mr. Kirsche
Supervisors include parents and teachers.
Programming Format
A Time Trials format where the first to solve every problem wins the competition. These students compete by solving a variety of questions. There will be a set amount of questions and the first team to finish the final question will win. All of the students will be given the first question at the same time and after they finish it they will be given the next, and so on and so forth.
Main Idea: Establishing-a-1-bootcamp-for-kids-in-the-library.