Organize a CSEdWeek event!

Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) will be held from December 7 – 13, 2020. CSEdWeek is intended as a call to action to encourage K-12 students to learn CS, advocate for equity in CS education and celebrate contributions to the field. It is held in recognition of Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906), who invented the first compiler and coined the term “bug” (an error in a program) after removing an actual moth from a computer in 1947. The first CSEdWeek was launched by ACM in 2009. This year CSTA is coordinating CSEdWeek for the first time. 

Code.org first organized the Hour of Code (HOC) during CSEdWeek in 2013 to show that anybody can learn to code and to broaden participation in Computer Science. It started as a one-hour coding activity but has expanded to a worldwide effort to celebrate computer science and includes a variety of community efforts. 

The theme of CSEdWeek 2020 is Computer Science for Social Justice (#CSforSocialJustice).  It highlights using Computer Science as a tool for Social Justice and working for social justice in Computer Science. 

Consider organizing an HOC event during CSEdWeek to teach how to use CS as a tool for social justice, inspire students to study CS, advocate for CS Education, involve administrators and celebrate CS education. The resources below are provided by CSTA, Code.org and their partners and are found mainly on CSTA’s CSEdWeek site and Code.org’s HOC pages. There are also links to resources prepared and used by our colleagues to organize an HOC at their schools. 

Please email info@cs4nj.org to have other CSEdWeek resources included on this page. 

LiveStreams Browse the CSEDWeek calendar of events and Register for  daily livestreams	Teach CSEDWeek Lessons for teaching CS as a tool for social justice	Inspire Code.org’s resources to organize an HOC event Search HOC coding activities by grade
Advocate Webinars and Resources to advocate for Computer Science	Involve Webinar and resources to involve state and district leaders, school counselors and other in Computer Science	Celebrate Submit a video to celebrate a Computer Science Teacher or showcase how you are celebrating CSEdWeek
Virtual HOC Code.org’s Tips for running a virtual HOC	CodeBytes Code.org’s CodeBytes: mini lessons streamed on YouTube during CSEdWeek	CSinSF CSEdWeek San Francisco Unified School District CSEdWeek Resources
CS First HOC Google’s CS First HOC  (English and Spanish)	CS First Unplugged Google’s CS First Unplugged HOC Activity	Microsoft MakeCode Microsoft MakeCode HOC 2020
Minecraft HOC Minecraft HOC 2020: A tale of two villages	CodeHS Resources CodeHS Webinars during CSEdWeek and HOC Activities	Teacher-How-To Teacher-How-To run an HOC from Christopher High School in CA
Delran HOC Delran Township HOC	Family Code Night Family Code Night Resources	Popfizz Webinars Register for Popfizz HOC webinars