Socorro Independent School District Eastlake High School SATA Updated: Oct. 2016

Eastlake’s Goals for SATA Our Goal is to prepare a generation of critical thinkers who are able to use computing to develop solutions to complex problems.

Why computer science? The number of job openings projected in 2018 for computer specialists will reach 1.4 million!

SATA Requirements Complete five or more courses in CS Enroll in at least two P/AP credit courses in math and science each year Participate in a minimum of two UIL or TSA competitions Complete a senior year project. Recommended Language: Chinese

SATA Requirements for Stole Maintain grades at 80 or above 150 Community Service hours Complete all SATA requirements.

Freshmen: Computer Science and Software Engineering - PLTW Develop Programming Expertise Projects Include: Game Development App Development Visualization of Data Cyber Security Simulation HTML/CSS, PHP for Website Design

Check out some of our Games! This link will take you to our SATA page where your can find our “Hall of Fame” All of the games here were made by SATA students.

Sample Game

Sample App (Roll a Dice)

Sophomores: AP Computer Science A - PLTW Create Android Apps using real world tools! Programming Languages: Java, XML Projects Include: Social media app Mobile game with LibGDX (used to make Pokemon Go ) Google Play Store Publishing

App Design with Android Studio

Juniors: Specialization courses (1 year) Cybersecurity Robotics and Automation – For students interested in Engineering Independent Studies of Technology – Game Design and Development Using Unity with C# (Used to make several games on our phones and online) – Website Development See what happens behind the scenes

Student making his game!

He made all his graphics

Capstone: Computational Problem Solving - PLTW Find a problem and solve it using computing!

Required Courses Freshman Course: Computer Science Principles Sophomore Course: AP Computer Science A Junior Course: Cybersecurity Senior Course: Capstone 1 additional from the ones listed on slide 12slide 12

Why Computer Science? Computing is the future CS is an exceptional tool Valuable for every student – Knowledge of CS is vital for any career – Becoming a requirement in non- computing college degrees

Who do we want? Anyone interested in computers should apply.

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Questions Additional Questions? Ms. Robles at To apply see your counselor