1. Teaching Public/Private Key Encryption to K-12 Students Yvon Feaster CPSC 624

2. WHY K-12 Computer Science (CS) is a relatively new discipline Growth of CS technology has greatly outpaced CS education in the United States (US) 10 th – 12 th grade students in SC = 138,910 [1] 209 students took AP exam for CS [2] Undergraduate enrollment fluctuating [3]

3. Outreach Programs Many universities offer CS outreach programs [4,5,6] Videos available that demonstrate ways to teach CS concept CS Unplugged [7] Public/Private Key Encryption http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJrICB_HvuI

4. Public/Private Key Pendleton High School Project [8]

5. References: [1] http://ed.sc.gov/data/student- counts/AverageDailyMembershipandAttendance.cfm [2] www.csta.acm.org/Research/sub/CSTAResearch.html [3] www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ CS_Degree_and_Enrollment_Trends_2010-11.pdf [4] www.cs.purdue.edu/outreach [5] cs.illinois.edu/outreach [6] www.eng.vt.edu/outreach/computerscience [7] www.csunplugged.org [8] Feaster, Y., Segars, L., Wahba, S.K., Hallstrom, J.O., 2011, Teaching CS Unplugged in the high school (with limited success), In Proceedings of the 16 th conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE’ 11). ACM, http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/19997.1999817