2015 Curriculum

Orientation: June 25

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Week 1: July 6 - July 10

Computer Based

• Intro to Scratch
  Scratch Workshop
  Scratch About Me Presentations
• App Inventor: Design Your Own SmartPhone App!

Non Computer Based

• Introduction: What is Computer Science and Computer Engineering?
• Careers in Computer Science / Women in Computer Science
• Introduction to Programming: What is computer programming?
• Introduction to Circuits
• What is Binary?

Guest Speakers
Janet Evans - Software development and women in computer science
Safeside Team - High school team that created a concussion detection app

Field trip
Rock Climbing at Boston University FitRec

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Week 2: July 13 - 17

Computer Based

• Web Design: HTML
• Web Design: CSS
• Make your own web page!

Non Computer Based

• Cryptography
• Graph Theory

Guest Speakers
Sharon Goldberg - Network Security
Douglas Densmore and Orit Shaer - Synthetic biology and programming

Field trip
Google
VMware

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Week 3: July 20 - 24

Computer Based

• Introduction to Python
• Simple Programming: Tasks with Python

Non Computer Based

• Artificial Intelligence
• Searching Algorithms
• Sorting Algorithms
• Set Theory

Guest Speakers
Natalya Brikner - Programming and aerospace
Natali Ruchansky - Graph Theory
David Sullivan - Searching and Sorting Algorithms

Field trip
Harvard

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Week 4: July 27 - July 31

Computer Based

• Introduction to Robotics
• Introduction to Sphero
• Introduction to NQC and Lego Mindstorms
• Robotics Building, Programming, and Testing

Non Computer Based

• Object Oriented Programming
• Simple Robotics
• Robotics Competition

Guest Speakers
Jonathan Appavoo - "smart" machine

Field trip
Intuit
Microsoft

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Week 5: August 3 - August 7

Computer Based

• Introduction to Arduino

Hands On Activity

• Soldering Circuits with the help of Prof. Eric Hazen

Non Computer Based

• Introduction to Circuits
• Final Project

Guest Speakers
Admissions speaker

Field trip
George Sherman Union Alley - Ice cream and karaoke

Posterboard Arduino Presentation: August 6th, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Faculty, Family and Friends Invited
Photonics 9th floor Lobby

Final Presentation: August 6th, 3:00pm - 5:30pm
Family and Friends Invited
Photonics 9th floor Colloquium