1. Sphero Racing League Overview
Dr. Kinnis Gosha
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Dept.
Morehouse College

2. Synopsis
The Sphero Racing League is a project designed to teach coding to students in the Atlanta metropolitan area (especially underserved areas)
Students AND teachers are taught coding in order to participate in races
The project aligns K-12, Higher Ed and Industry
Program will be sustainable and offered yearly

3. What is Sphero?

4. Coding Sphero Simple language to learn
Users can write and execute code on a phone or tablet (including Android and iOS)
Can control movement (speed, directions) and colors
Can sense collisions
Can have an fully executable program with only three lines of code!

5. Immediate Vision
Expose every interested student and teacher to Sphero in the Atlanta metro area through an intensive one day workshop
Diversify the computer science programs in the local metro area
Increase the size of local computing departments

6. Yearly Schedule Workshops with students and teachers Afterschool clubs
Stipend for Teachers/Coaches
Visits from AUC students to teach new concepts and troubleshoot
Competition
Students from across the city will compete in multiple challenges
Will also contain a computer science career fair

7. Workshop Agenda Morning Overview Lecture One Practice One Lecture Two
Practice Two
Afternoon
Lunch
Lesson Recap
Breakout into groups to compete at stations
Recap (including Computer Careers Now)

8. Computing Careers Now
NSF Funded Web Portal design to 1) teach urban and rural youth about computing careers and 2) eliminate identity threat associated with computing careers.
User ask virtual computing professional questions about their careers
Users also can view data from O-net about that specific computing career
Kinnis Gosha is the PI on the grant
Tool will be completed no later than August 2016

9. After School Clubs
Will consist of students and teachers who participated in one-day workshops and decided they want to be more involved
Schools will be leased equipment from the program administration for their participation in the program
Students from Morehouse College, Spelman College and Clark Atlanta University will go to the selected schools twice a month to participate in afterschool meetings

10. Competitions
Students will come to compete with challenges they prepared for (already coded) and other challenges they will have to build on site.
Prizes will come from local industry sponsors
Citywide Sphero Racing League competitions will be collocated with an all computer science college fair
All computing programs from the Atlanta area will be present with demos to show to students

11. Resources Needed
Equipment (sphero balls, boards, blocks, spray paint, etc.)
Teacher Stipends (for coaching teams)
Stipend for Undergraduate Students (to assist schools in coding, create tutorials and manage the website)
Transportation (for teachers/students to attend workshops/competitions and for undergraduates to get to the schools)
Food (lunch for students/teachers during workshops)
Prizes for competition winners

12. Are you ready...

13. 2015-2016 Culturally Relevant Computing Lab
Contact
Dr. Kinnis Gosha Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Morehouse College
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Culturally Relevant Computing Lab