It’s Friday! Disney Day!!

We all love Disney, and Disney loves CS!

Did you know? Disney has a blog for programs and internships that it offers…and computer science is one of the biggest categories that it posts under! Disney’s computer science blog section has job listings for CS-related internships at Disney companies, highlights for exemplary CS achievements by its interns and employees, and recent news about their computer science achievements. Disney is also a big advocate for women in Computer Science! Here is a quote from their blog:

“Technology and diversity are two major forces that drive the culture at Disney, and empowering women to be involved in the tech industry is key to inspiring the future of technology.”

This is Courtney – an Enterprise Business Systems intern at Disney!

Learn more! → https://disneyprogramsblog.com/tag/computer-science/

Did you know? An artist named Amanda Allen Niday from Oregon took some famous Disney princesses and reimagined them as rights activists in honor of the Women’s March! She used these pictures to represent fights against sexism, racism, and xenophobia in general. Each princess holds up a sign with a line they say in their respective movies, accompanied by attitudes that show these women mean business!

 

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Monday: ...

Portfolio!

Day 1:

Why you came to this camp? What you want to get out of it? What have you already accomplished in computing and technology? What might you do with computing and technology in the future?

Day 2:

Describe ANY leadership positions you have had in school and/or community. Describe your Interest in Computing and Technology.  Describe your Career goals in detail. What do you want to accomplish? Why is your career goal important to you?

Day 3:

Please describe what sparked your interest in computing and technology AND HOW that interest has furthered your experience in computing and technology? This is your time to shine - tell us what you have been doing and why?

Please describe a problem that you would like TO SOLVE using technology and explain HOW you would solve it (this could be a social problem, a technical problem, a local problem, a world problem, etc.).

Day 4 

What is your involvement in Curricular, Co-curricular and Extracurricular activities? (The list includes items such as computing/technology classes, clubs, or other extra-curricular programs or activities such as Girl Scouts, 4H, Big Brothers Big Sisters, etc...)

Rate your level of experience with programming platforms such as robotics, coding, graphics, database design, etc. (no experience, some experience, or a lot of experience) If so, give examples. If not, why? 

Rate your level of experience with hardware/networking/system operations activities such as computer maintenance, software installation, server support, network support, cyber security, etc.  (no experience, some experience, or a lot of experience) If so, give examples. If not, why?

Day 5

Describe more about your project you created/are working on and respond to the following questions:

Provide an overview of your project/artifact. (For example, I programmed a Lilypad Arduino to...)

What did you plan to learn from your project? Did you meet this target?

What computer science concepts did you use in your project? (Variables, loops, conditional statements, functions, lists/arrays, methods, etc.)       

What computational thinking principles did you use in your project? (Abstraction, algorithms, correctness, efficiency, iteration or loop statements, variables, etc.)

How does your project relate to the “real” world? What did you learn or use that will help you outside the classroom?

In your project, what did you particularly want others to notice?

What would you improve if you could do this over again?

Does this project reflect the effort you put into it? Why or why not?

Revisit your past portfolio answers, and continue to add to them. Try to add at least 1-2 more sentences to each.