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”(PEECS)的合作伙伴关系，目标是增加圣地亚哥县对计算机科学及相关领域的大学专业感兴趣并准备攻读大学专业的圣地亚哥县少数族裔和女性学生的数量。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。考虑到“进入循环”人员生活在圣地亚哥地区的事实，加州大学洛杉矶分校和加州大学圣迭戈分校的校区之间有着密切的联系，加州大学圣迭戈分校的计算机科学已经参与了他们一年级的课程改革，并且加州大学圣迭戈分校的超级计算机中心(SDSC)有一个成熟的大学前教师技术和计算科学专业发展计划(SDSCTeacherTECH)，这使得圣地亚哥处于正确的时间和地点，对其高中计算机科学课程进行重大改革。PEECS建议为ECS成功地扩展和适应到一个新的地区，圣地亚哥县铺平道路。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.