Partnership for Expanding "Exploring Computer Science" (PEECS)

加州大学圣地亚哥分校（UCSD）提出了一项计划拨款，以建立扩大“探索计算机科学”合作伙伴关系（PEECS），目标是增加圣地亚哥县高中毕业的对计算机科学及相关领域感兴趣并准备攻读大学专业的少数族裔和女学生的数量。PEECS受到BPC联盟“进入循环”的启发，该联盟在洛杉矶联合学区推出了一门新课程“探索计算机科学”（ECS）。ECS是一门入门课程，可以成为计算机科学原理的垫脚石，这是一门新的AP课程。这两门课程有可能改变高中计算机教育。计算机科学原理课程今年正在加州大学圣地亚哥分校试行。再加上“进入循环”的人员居住在圣地亚哥地区，加州大学洛杉矶分校和加州大学圣地亚哥分校之间有着密切的联系，加州大学圣地亚哥分校计算机科学已经参与了他们的新生课程的改革，加州大学圣地亚哥分校的圣地亚哥超级计算机中心（SDSC）为大学预科教师提供了一个完善的技术和计算科学专业发展计划（SDSCTeacherTECH）。这使得圣地亚哥大学处于对其高中计算机科学课程进行重大改革的合适时机和地点。PEECS建议为ecs在圣地亚哥县的成功扩展和适应铺平道路。在那里，多个学区的结构、政策、流程和学术社区文化都提出了新的挑战。随着ECS和CS原则的广泛传播，在调整ECS计划以适应圣地亚哥地区不同需求方面所获得的经验将提供宝贵的经验。这项规划赠款将把重要的利益攸关方聚集在一起，为这项工作发展必要的伙伴关系和方向。

The University of California San Diego (UCSD) proposes a planning grant tobuild the Partnership for Expanding "Exploring Computer Science" (PEECS)with the goal of increasing the number of underrepresented minority andfemale students from San Diego County that graduate from high schoolinterested in and prepared to pursue college majors in computer science andrelated fields. PEECS was inspired by the BPC Alliance, "Into the Loop," whichintroduced a new course, "Exploring Computer Science" (ECS), in the Los AngelesUnified School District. ECS is an introductory course that could be asteppingstone to Computer Science Principles, the proposed new AdvancedPlacement (AP) course. These two courses have the potential to transformhigh school education in computing.The CS Principles course is being piloted at UC San Diego this year. Togetherwith the facts that "Into the Loop" personnel live in the San Diego region,there are close ties between the UCLA and UCSD campuses, UCSD Computer Scienceis already involved in revamping their freshman curriculum, and UCSD's San DiegoSupercomputer Center (SDSC) has a well-established technology and computationalscience professional development program for pre-college teachers (SDSCTeacherTECH), this puts San Diego at the right time and place for a majoroverhaul of its high school computer science programs.PEECS proposes to pave the way for a successful expansion and adaptation ofECS into a new region, San Diego County. There, multiple school districtingstructures, policies, processes, and academic community cultures present theirown new challenges to change. Experiences gained in adapting the ECS programto the diverse needs of the San Diego region will provide valuable lessons asthe wider dissemination of ECS and CS Principles goes forward. This planninggrant will bring together the important stakeholders to develop the necessarypartnerships and directions for this effort.