Free Event - The 3rd Annual "I Am College Material" Scholarship Fair

FREE EVENT for TEENS Seeking COLLEGE $$$$

The 3rd Annual "I Am College Material" Scholarship Fair hosted by Atlanta City Councilmember Aaron Watson and APS Board Member, Yolanda Johnson (District 6). 

The "I Am College Material" Scholars

hip Fair provides a unique opportunity for students to interact with local and national scholarship programs. From our Scholarship Scavenger Hunts to our Scholarship Pitch Competitions and Speed Essay Editing sessions, students are able to gain first-hand experiences in building solid scholarship profiles.


When: Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Where: Turner Field Stadium, 755 Club
Time: 4 p.m. - 8 p.m
*A Special Black Male Achievement Reception will be held from 4 - 5 p.m.

http://www.scholarshipacademy.org/online/register-an-individual/

Internship - Emma Bowen Foundation HS students

The Emma Bowen Foundation is a National PAID Internship Program. 2013 will mark our 24th year of successfully placing minority students in multi-summer internships at media companies throughout the United States. We are recruiting minority rising high school seniors and incoming college freshmen. Qualified applicants should have at least a 3.0
GPA, plan to attend a 4-year college and have an interest in media, communications, business, engineering, or technology. Selected recipients are PAID and receive a matching funds scholarship to help pay for college expenses throughout their college years.

Please visit our website for a more detailed description of the program and the application: http://www.emmabowenfoundation.com/ .

Discounted software - Adobe

Adobe Students - Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/adobestudents

About

This page is dedicated to serving Adobe's vast student community! We post everything from tutorials, tips for students, to the latest Adobe news.

Mission

Every ideas churning, 4 a.m. project finishing, short-film filming, T-shirt designing, final term paper writing, do everything student can save up to 80% off Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 with Adobe Student and Teacher Editions.

To ensure the satisfaction of our fans, links to non-Adobe websites for personal gain, spam, off-topic posts, or posts that contain inappropriate and offensive content may be removed.

Adobe Education - Website

http://www.adobe.com/education.edu.html?showEduReq=no

Adobe in Education

Whether you're an educator developing a more engaging curriculum, an administrator working to improve collaboration, or a student creating projects, portfolios and resumes, Adobe has the tools you need to stand out in the classroom and beyond. Finally, your tools can keep up with your ideas.

Article - Andrea Lawrence Honored As HistoryMaker

Dr.Andrea W. Lawrence, Spelman College Computer and Information Science department chair is honored as a History Maker by Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets

Andrea Lawrence Honored As HistoryMaker | Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets

CS Awards - NCWIT Program for HS girls

"Calling all HS digital divas, web chix, and coder girls! Apply now for @NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing: www.aspirationsaward.org."

Article - Wielding the Double-Edged Sword of Social Media

On Educational IT - by Susan Fogarty - Wielding the Double-Edged Sword of Social Media

http://www.educationalit.com/author.asp?doc_id=252574&f_src=EducationalIT_schoolit

Very good article on and about the use of Social Media.
"It should be clear by now that social media are not a passing trend. For many adults and even more young people, social media are an integral part of life -- so they must become an integral part of education."

Free software - Microsoft Dreamspark

https://www.dreamspark.com/Student/Default.aspx

if you can imagine it, you can create it

3 simple steps to access Microsoft Software and Development Tools at no cost.

create an account and verify your student status

Although some products are accessible immediately, in order to download the same tools and products used by professional developers you need to create a student account and verify your academic status the first time you access DreamSpark. Your account will be valid for 12 months.

Free software - Phrogram for programming

http://phrogram.com/content/whatisphrogram.aspx

If you want to make games or software programs for your Windows PC, you may try to start with Java, C++, or Visual Basic - but their "syntax" (how commands are written) can be very challenging. You will also need to use a complex "development environment" like Visual Studio or Eclipse - great for big projects, but not for getting started.

There are also products like Alice and Scratch that are great if you want your program to tell a story or show animation, but they won't really convey how programmers write, test and debug software code - and that's what makes Phrogram different.

With Phrogram, you can learn the experience of programming using a development environment that is similar to what working programmers use to write, test and debug their software programs.

Phrogram does not try to "hide" the source code or over-simplify programming concepts by basing them on visual, "drag-and-drop" techniques. It's built on the principle that it's better to get acquainted with source code right away, because learning how to read and write it is not as hard as it may look, and if you give it a try, you will learn faster, and gain real skills that you can put to use in creating games and other fun programs.

Phrogram's programming language is concise and the tools are easy to master, so you won't need to absorb vast amounts of information to learn how to use it. There are also dozens of built-in sample programs and hundreds of user-uploaded examples on our website. And because Phrogram is built on Microsoft's powerful .NET Framework, your programs can do much more with much less code.

Phrogram's development environment is designed for learning and teaching. Don't worry about managing many of the complex tasks that make programming seem hard - with Phrogram, you will learn the skills and techniques that working programmers apply all the time. 

So start writing your own code in a powerful yet straightforward way, and create programs in both 2D and 3D environments. It's easy to learn powerful programming concepts - even networking, databases, precision math, file input/output and many other extensions - with Phrogram!

Free software - Scratch for programming

http://scratch.mit.edu/

About Scratch

Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.
Educators - Information for educators using Scratch News - Stories about Scratch in the media Research - Papers and presentations about Scratch Donate - Support the Scratch project
Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, with financial support from the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, Intel Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Google, Iomega and MIT Media Lab research consortia. See the Credits page for a list of people who worked together to create Scratch. To find books, T-shirts, and other Scratch-related products, visit the Scratch Store. To learn about Scratch events, visit the Scratch Conference and Scratch Day sites.

The Scratch project is based upon research supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number 0325828. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed on this site are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.