News
- 09.02.12
Synergy Lab Releases Lessons for Storytelling Alice
Synergy Lab releases 7 Storytelling Alice lessons as part of the MyVICE@VT project. Among other goals, the project aims to create an engaging and "kid-friendly" curriculum so as to improve the quality of IT education holistically from elementary school through high school.
- 02.25.12
Feng Asks "Will Computers Replace Humans?" at Kids Tech University
Feng delivered an interactive and philosophical talk on Will Computers Replace Humans? to more than 400 kids between 9-12 years old, inclusive. [Archive]
- 02/25/12
MyVICE at Kids Tech University
The MyVICE team, consisting of Feng, Gardner, and Mohamed, deployed three lessons of their Scratch curriculum at Kids Tech University on February 25, 2009.
- 04/15/11
Women in Computing Day
Women in Computing Day was arranged by the Computer Science Department and the Virginia Tech Association for Women in Computing. The activities focused on women and computing.
- 05/14/10
Poster Accepted to the Grace Hopper Conference
Datoc and Feng have their poster Enhancing Early Childhood Education with Computer Science Curriculum accepted for presentation at the Grace Hopper Conference, to be held in Atlanta, GA, in September-October 2010.
- 05/01/10
MyVICE at Three Local Elementary Schools
The MyVICE team, consisting of Feng, Gardner, Datoc, Fernandez, Gomez, Martinez, and Talwar, deployed their seven-lesson Storytelling Alice curriculum at three local elementary schools -- Blacksburg New School, Beeks Elementary, and Harding Ave. Elementary -- during the month of April 2010.
- 04/09/10
Paper Accepted to ITiCSE 2010
Gardner and Feng have their paper Broadening Accessibility to Computer Science for K-12 Education accepted into the 15th Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), to be held Ankara, Turkey, in June 2010.
- 02/27/10
MyVICE at Kids Tech University
The MyVICE team, consisting of Feng, Gardner, Datoc, Fernandez, Gomez, Martinez, and Talwar, deployed their Storytelling Alice curriculum (via virtual machines and LiveCD/USB) at Kids Tech University on February 27, 2010.
- 10/04/09
Paper Accepted to ICVCI 2009
Gardner, Herr, Mazary, Lin, Scogland, and Feng have their paper A Flexible and Extensible Framework for Delivering Designer Images for K-12 Pedagogy accepted into the 3rd International Conference on the Virtual Computing Initiative, to be held in Research Triangle Park, NC, in October 2009.
- 05/01/09
MyVICE at Three Local Elementary Schools
The MyVICE team, consisting of Feng, Gardner, Gomez, and Martinez, deployed four lessons of their Storytelling Alice curriculum at three local elementary schools -- Blacksburg New School, Beeks Elementary, and Harding Ave. Elementary -- during the month of April 2009.
- 02/28/09
MyVICE at Kids Tech University
The MyVICE team, consisting of Feng, Gardner, Gomez, and Martinez, deployed two lessons of their Storytelling Alice curriculum at Kids Tech University on February 28, 2009.
- 11/20/08
Best Undergraduate Poster Award
Gabriel Martinez, junior, wins the ACM Student Research Competition at SC|08 for his poster entitled Characterizing and Optimizing Virtual Machines for High-Performance Networking with Gardner and Feng.
- 05/14/08
Paper Accepted to ICVCI 2008
Gardner and Feng have their paper Towards a Virtual Ecosystem for K-8 Education accepted into the 2nd International Conference on the Virtual Computing Initiative, to be held in Research Triangle Park, NC, in May 2008.
- 04/10/07
Paper Accepted to ICVCI 2007
Feng and Gardner, in collaboration with Vishwanath and Leigh of U. Illinois at Chicago, have their paper High-Fidelity Monitoring in Virtual Computing Environments accepted into the 1st International Conference on the Virtual Computing Initiative, to be held in Research Triangle Park, NC, in May 2007.
