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 ====== Earlier PD4CS News ======
+January 2016: Following President Obama's State of the Union Address, the [[ http://cra.org/ccc/ | CCC ]] publishes the Whitepaper on
+[[http://www.cccblog.org/2016/01/14/ccc-whitepaper-the-importance-of-computing-education-research/ | The Importance of Computing Education Research]]  having Susanne Hambrusch as one of the authors. The whitepaper recognizes the increase in the number of undergraduates declaring a computing major and suggests that right now we have an unparalleled opportunity to expand the reach of computing education through the burgeoning field of Computing Education Research.
+January 2016: Susanne Hambrusch is an invited participant in the Google Summit on Retention in Undergraduate Computer Science program held at Mountain View, California.
+November 2015: Yizhou Qian and Jim Lehman presented a poster on misconceptions in computer science and efforts of the project to help teachers address students' misconceptions at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) annual conference in Indianapolis, IN.
+November 2015: Phil Sands and Debbie Hagen presented two sessions at the Indiana Business Educators Association conference in Indianapolis, IN. The first session was designed for new computer science teachers and discussed content, pedagogy and course design. The second session focused on teaching sorting and search algorithms for the AP Computer Science A course.
+July 2015: Aman Yadav and Phil Sands attend the CSTA meeting in Texas.  Debbie Hagen, Aman Yadav, and Phil Sands continue visiting PLTW Core Training sessions in Dayton, Ohio, Ypsilanti, Michigan, and Terre Haute, Indiana.  Over 40 teachers visited and will be participating in the PD4CS project.
+June 2015: Tim Korb welcomes high school CSE teachers to the PD4CS project at PLTW Core Training sessions in Kokomo and Urbana-Champaign.
+{{::jtk-at-kokomo-2015.jpg|}}
+May 2015: The Purdue project team travels to East Lansing to join the Michigan State team in a planning retreat.  Advisory Board members and PLTW staff participate via Skype.
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 March 2015: Bennett Brown, Tim Korb, Phil Sands, and Aman Yadav attended SIGCSE 2015 in Kansas City.  Bennett presented at a panel session of groups creating professional development materials for CS Principles teachers.

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