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CS Principles AP Course Pilots Wanted

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As many of you know there is a new AP CS course, APCS Principles, under development. A second round of pilot courses is planned for next school year and the program is actively seeking schools/faculty to sign up to take part.  While there is programming involved the overall focus is on basic principles. One of the really great things about this course is that it is designed to be programming language independent. SO if you have ever thought it would be nice to teach an AP CS course using Visual Basic (I have), or C# (why no?), or Small Basic, or even C++ (like it used to be.) Or what ever your favorite teaching programming language is this may be your opportunity. It is a chance to influence the direction of the APCS program like I have not seen before.

From the interest web page (https://csprinciples.org/pilots/)

In the academic year 2010-2011 five college/university sites are piloting the CS Principles course. The pilot sites were chosen from those schools represented on the CS Principles Advisory Board.

In the academic year 2011-2012 more schools will be participating in the second phase of the pilot. For some schools we will offer financial support to assist in the pilot, but we hope that many schools will choose to participate in the pilot without financial support, but with access to materials developed to support the course and its delivery.

The second pilot will be open to high schools as well as to four year colleges and universities. We hope to open the pilot to community colleges as well and actively seek interest from all these types of institutions.

If you are interested in piloting the course in the 2011-2012 academic year please fill out the brief form [at ]https://csprinciples.org/pilots/. We will be contacting you with more information in May or June to provide information about how the second phase of the pilot will go forward.

I’d be interesting in hearing from anyone who is applying to be a pilot and if I can help out with Microsoft resources let me know and I’ll see what I can do.