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Faculty Delivers Lecture at Computational Thinking in Schools Conference, Pune

May 13, 2019 - 3:18
Faculty Delivers Lecture at Computational Thinking in Schools Conference, Pune

Dr. V. Anantha Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, delivered a session on ‘Physical Computing’ at the First Conference on Computational Thinking in Schools- CTiS 2019, held on April 20, 2019, at Pune. More than 140 delegates, which included teachers, principals and organisations working in the field of education from 20 cities and 7 states of the country, attended the conference. The conference was organized by CSpathshala, an ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) India initiative to provide a platform for educators to share their experiences, student learnings/stories, outcomes and interesting new experiments.

Prof. Venkatesh Raman, Program Chair, shared, “CTiS2019 makes a beginning with inviting participation from teachers implementing CSpathshala curriculum. CTiS 2019 received 55 abstracts and all abstracts showed, in general, a highly positive feedback on the curriculum. Of the 55 abstracts, 9 were selected for presentation based on some specific examples and experiences and the chairs invited two other presentations”. Out of 9 presentations, “T{h}inker – A Physical Computing Tool Kit “ was the only one from a Higher Education Institute (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham) to support Computational Thinking in schools.

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