April 2014: The first External Advisory Committee Meeting of the project was held April 24 and 25 at Purdue University. The committee included Steve Cooper (Stanford), Robert Floden (Michigan State University), and Joanna Goode (University of Oregon).

March 2014: Susanne Hambrusch and Aman Yadav participated in the workshop on “Future Directions in Computing Education” held at Stanford University March 24-25, 2014. The NSF supported meeting focused on institutional challenges to supporting and growing computing education research.

March 2014: Tim Korb and Phil Sands attended SIGCSE 2014 in Atlanta.

January 2014: Aman Yadav, Tim Korb, and Susanne Hambrusch attended the Computing Education for the 21st Century (CE21) PI and Community Meeting held in Orlando, FL on January 6-8, 2014. The meeting brings together experts in computer science education, broadening participation in computing, and traditional education researchers to build new partnerships and collaborations, and the leveraging of ongoing work.

December 2013: NSF's press release on Increasing accessibility to computer science education across the U.S. with a description of project PD4CS.

December 2013: Aman Yadav and Tim Korb will be attending a CISE and EHR meeting at National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C to discuss the new STEM-C partnerships.

November 2013: Debbie Hagen has joined project PD4CS as a consultant. Until June 2013, Debbie was the Computer Science teacher at Jefferson High School in Lafayette, Indiana where she taught CS AP, C++, Visual Basic, and Web Design. Debbie's teaching experience will be of tremendous value in the professional development effort.

November 2013: Aman Yadav's has been recognized as a University Faculty Scholar effective January 2014. Purdue's University Faculty Scholars Program recognizes outstanding faculty members who are on an accelerated path for academic distinction. Faculty Scholars are appointed for a nonrenewable five year term and receive an annual discretionary allocation. Congratulations, Aman!

September 2013: The National Science Foundation awards Purdue University, in partnership with Project Lead the Way (PLTW), a grant on “Leading the Way to CS10K: Assessing a Just-in-Time Professional Development Approach for Teacher Knowledge Growth in Computer Science.”

August 2013: Dr. Aman Yadav begins his Faculty Fellowship for Study in a Second Discipline in Computer Science.