Partnership for Expanding "Exploring Computer Science" (PEECS)

PEECS的灵感来自于BPC联盟“进入循环”，该联盟在洛杉矶联合学区引入了一门新课程--“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，这是拟议的新高级预科课程(AP)。这两门课程有可能改变高中的计算教育。CS原理课程今年将在加州大学圣地亚哥分校试行。在那里，多个学区的结构、政策、流程和学术社区文化给他们带来了新的挑战。在使幼儿保育方案适应圣地亚哥地区不同需要方面取得的经验将为更广泛地传播保育和保健原则提供宝贵的经验教训。这笔规划赠款将把重要的利益攸关方聚集在一起，为这一努力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.