We’re pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the Computer Science for High Schools grants in Australia and New Zealand. This annual program promotes computer science education by helping to equip educators with the skills and resources they need to teach computer science and computational thinking concepts in fun and relevant ways. Globally, this program has already trained more than 12,000 teachers and reached over 600,000 students.
Closer to home, we are supporting 20 organisations across Australia and New Zealand who will provide this important training to school teachers.
2014 recipients
Australia
New Zealand
In Australia, this year’s recipients will be expanding their workshops to focus on the implementation of the new Digital Technologies Curriculum being rolled out to classrooms across the country and include primary school and pre-service teachers in their workshops.
In addition to the CS4HS workshops, we’ll continue to support the rollout of the new curriculum with a partnerships with Adelaide University to deliver free online professional teacher development in teaching computational thinking. If you’ve not started yet it’s not too late to join in. There are also some great classroom resources on our K-12 educators page.
We know that an early introduction to computational thinking and coding is a great foundation for students in any career they choose, whether it’s medicine, engineering or the movies. We hope that these practical, hands on workshops will inspire teachers across Australia as they bring new material to their classrooms.
Posted by Sally-Ann Williams, Engineering Community & Outreach Manager, Google Australia & New Zealand
