CS K-12 Outreach

We hope you had a productive & relaxing Summer! We have setup an array of FREE VIRTUAL programs this Fall. Unless otherwise specified, all our programs will be offered VIRTUALLY through MS Teams. Additional one-time events are posted at CS Outreach meetup page & they are also sent by broadcast email to our email list csoutreach@lists.utdallas.edu (You can join by sending an email to sympa@lists.utdallas.edu with subject line subscribe csoutreach)

FREE programs are made possible by our good neighbor

State Farm.

FREE Coding Sessions on Saturdays : Sep 14 – Nov 16 (10 sessions)

Registration is NOT needed. Click on the link and join at the posted time. We will try our best to record the sessions and post the links as well. You can access the detailed schedule and recordings for the sessions @ utd.link/cscsfall24 We will use FREE tools and resources for all sessions other than Python. We plan to use codio platform for problems and auto-grading for Python: Click on this  codio link and sign up (You need to pay $15 for 5 months OR $25 for one year of usage).

Title Grade levels Timings on Saturdays MS Teams link
Animations with MIT Scratch 3rd-5th graders 9-10am utd.link/scratch
Enjoyable Coding with Alice & JavaScript 5th-8th graders 10-11am utd.link/alicejs
Creative Coding with JavaScript 6th-12th graders 11-12:30pm utd.link/p5js
Problem Solving in Python 8th-12th graders 1-2:30pm utd.link/python
Introduction to Coding Contest Problems 9th-12th graders 3-4:30pm utd.link/cproblems

 

FREE Enrichment Sessions for AP courses : Sep 14, 2024  – May 2025

Our goal is to provide these enrichment sessions to support the following AP courses throughout the school year. We hope the alternate explanations / additional problems covered in these sessions will strengthen your understanding and they will enable you to dig deeper and enjoy the material and finally do better in your AP tests as well. Registration is NOT needed. Click on the link and join at the posted time. We will try our best to record the sessions and post the links as well. You can access the detailed schedule and recordings for the sessions @ utd.link/cscsfall24 We plan to use codio platform for problems and auto-grading for AP CS Java problems: Click on this codio link  and sign up – since AP CS Java is year-long course, please pay $25 for one year of usage.

AP Course Faculty lead Timings on Saturdays MS Teams link
AP Computer Science (Java) Dr. Jey Veerasamy 10am-12pm utd.link/apcsa

 

Custodial Responsibility Disclaimer

The University of Texas at Dallas  Computer Science department will not take custodial responsibility of minors while participating in Fall virtual coding sessions. Custodial responsibility will remain with the parents or legal guardians.