Last Thursday, March 5th, Superintendent Dr. Wiegand delivered the 2015 State of the District Presentation. Computational thinking came up (slide 10) while Dr. Wiegand was discussing her progress on fostering achievement, and Ctrl-Shift was mentioned as a U4Innovate partner in this process (slide 12). Several other partner organizations have members in Ctrl-Shift, so we got to see the range of disciplines from which we come:

Tech Time was also mentioned as a community partner (slide 36). Thanks to Charles Schultz for tweeting this to us! Keep those tweets coming!

@Unit4Schools @JudyWiegand Glad to see “Great Campus” (@ImaniBazzell ) and many other wonderful initiatives, with @ctrlshiftCU

— Charles Schultz (@sacrophyte) March 6, 2015

As always, you can reach us on Twitter at @ctrlshiftCU.

Welcome to the CTRL-Shift website. We are a social group comprised of school teachers, community members, entrepreneurs, & U of I folks discussing and celebrating computer science in the K-12 schools.

To learn more about our goals and impacts so far, watch the following video from Champaign Schools:

Young programmers at work

The MSTE blog has a new post entitled Computing in the Elementary School. The article describes the history of the computational thinking movement in Champaign-Urbana which has led to the formation of Ctrl-Shift.

Check out the article to learn more!