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Alfred Thompson's blog about teaching computer science at the K-12 level. Alfred was a high school computer science teacher for 8 years. He has also taught grades K-8 as a computer specialist. He has written several textbooks and project books for teaching Visual Basic in high school and middle school. Alfred is the K-12 Computer Science Academic Relations Manager for Microsoft and is trying to be the Microsoft Education Blogger.

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Joel Spolsky is an interesting guy with strong opinions about software development and the education of people going into software development. Recently he posted a blog article called Capstone projects and time management which is pretty critical of Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:49 PM by Alfred Thompson | 4 Comments

Imagine Cup Game Design Competition
This year the US Imagine Cup Game Design Competition is wide open for participation by high school students over the age of 16. Yes this is primarily a college/university level competition but I’ve seen high school students compete at high levels in the Read More...

Posted Friday, September 25, 2009 10:21 AM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

Useful Links Twittered June 1 2009
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Posted Monday, June 01, 2009 8:54 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

IT Challenge 2009 Worldwide Competition for High School and College Students Ages 16 and Over
Attention all high school students 16 and over . Are you interested in information technology? Microsoft Imagine Cup Announces the IT Challenge 2009 Worldwide Competition for High School and College Students Ages 16 and Over . This worldwide competition Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:47 PM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Interesting Links – 15 July 2008
I am struggling to catch up from my vacation. One of the trailing points in my activity is blogging – both reading and writing. I’ve got over 500 blog posts (mostly in the education category – aren’t you all on vacation?) to read. But I’ve come up with Read More...

Posted Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:16 PM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Imagine Cup – Student Environment & Technology Competition
The 2008 Imagine Cup finals is currently being held in Paris France. This international competition involves tens of thousands of university students around the world. This year’s theme is "Imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment." Read More...

Posted Friday, July 04, 2008 12:09 PM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Pitching Your Idea - An Interview About Presentations
digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/04/29/pitching-your-idea.aspx'; Perry Lowe, a marketing professor at Bentley College and Philip DesAutels , were at the recent US Imagine Cup finals giving some presentations to the competitors. Read More...

Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:28 AM by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments

After you win - now what?
What happens after a team wins a software design/development competition? Well it looks good on a resume of course and you can talk about it on interviews but could there be more? Apparently there can be more. For a number of years Microsoft has been Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:58 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

A Student Blogs About His Imagine Cup Team
Andrew Grapsas is a student at Stevens Institute of Technology who is putting together a team to compete in the game creation invitational of the Imagine Cup competition . Andrew has started blogging about his team and their efforts. The Imagine Cup is Read More...

Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 5:57 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Latest Imagine Cup News on Channel 8
I see over on Channel 8 that they have added a more team interviews with various teams who have made it to Korea for the finals. They also have some video from the first day of the finals event itself. Jump over to Channel 8 and take a look . A lot of Read More...

Posted Tuesday, August 07, 2007 2:47 AM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

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