[comp.edu] High school recruiting activities

law@pirates.UUCP (Laurie White) (07/30/90)

     Our college wants to have some sort of one-day event for high school
aimed both at informing them about majoring in computer science and in
trying to recruit them for our department.  Since there is recruiting
involved, we want to do this in December, at the latest.  (We're a joint
math/cs department and have run a very successful math contest for years.
It brings in over 600 students from around Georgia so a computer science event
was the next logical step.)

     So what do we do?  A programming contest is a natural choice, but
to make it like the regional and national contests would limit the group
eligible severely and I'm not sure students will know enough Pascal by 
then.  BASIC seems like a whole can of worms, but we could make it 
"output oriented" I suppose and let anyone bring whatever equipment 
they wanted.  I know this has been done though, so how do you handle it?

     I've also played with the idea of a CS "field day" with demonstrations
and numerous planned exercises, but don't really know what to plan.  

     I've got quite a bit of freedom with this and they promise me I 
don't need to handle 600 kids, this year.  

     PLEASE let me know what you've tried and had succeed (or fail, for that
matter).  Send e-mail and if there's interest, I'll be glad to summarize to
the net.)


Laurie A. White
law@pirates.uucp
Armstrong State College (Savannah)