Partnership for Expanding "Exploring Computer Science" (PEECS)

加州圣地亚哥大学（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，其目标是增加圣地亚哥县高中毕业的少数民族和女性学生的数量，这些学生对计算机科学及相关领域感兴趣并准备攻读大学专业。PEECS的灵感来自于BPC联盟，“进入循环”，它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，可以作为计算机科学原理的基石，这是拟议中的新的高级安置（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在加州大学圣地亚哥分校试行。与“进入循环”人员居住在圣地亚哥地区的事实一起，UCLA和UCSD校园之间有着密切的联系，UCSD计算机科学已经参与了他们大一课程的改革，UCSD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），这使圣地亚哥在正确的时间和地点，其高中计算机科学课程的重大改革。PEECS建议铺平道路，成功的扩展和适应ECS到一个新的地区，圣地亚哥县。在那里，多校区结构，政策，流程和学术社区文化提出了自己的新挑战，以改变。在使环境竞争战略方案适应圣地亚哥地区的各种需要方面取得的经验将为环境竞争战略和环境竞争战略原则的更广泛传播提供宝贵的经验教训。这项计划赠款将汇集重要的利益相关者，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.