HS Outreach

This is a page for planning the ISTA outreach program to area High Schools. Please add to it anything you think of, to help the project grow!

Goals

why are we doing this?

• to provide access to exciting ideas in AI to local students (see #Finding a school)
• to introduce the community to ISTA
  • to partner with other organizations sharing our goals (e.g., student enthusiast clubs, nonprofits)
• contribute what we develop as potential curriculum to be taught at area High Schools (via this wiki, maybe)

Finding a school

we can probably only make room for 1 - 2 schools per semester, so we need to decide what's important in how we choose our school(s)

• coursework/extracurriculars related to programming/robotics
• are there participants who could especially benefit from the exposure?
  • low socioeconomic status, underrepresented populations (sex, ethnicity), gifted, highly motivated, creative, some combination of these

Info. on Area High Schools

post information relevant to what is listed in #Finding a school here

• Tucson HS
• University HS/Rincon HS
• Desert View HS
• Saguaro HS
• CDO HS
• Amphi HS
• Sabino HS
• Basis HS
• Sunnyside HS
• Catalina HS
• Catalina Foothills HS
• Salpointe Catholic HS

Activities / Lack of Activities

we need to consider how much structure we want during these hours

• use the existing AIMA framework to get things started?
• some kind of competition they could work towards?
• transition to an open hack environment?
  • first, get ROS installed
  • next, work with wubble2 simulator on a predefined project
  • next, run it on the robot
  • finally, have permissions to do some open hacking

Time / Scheduling

how much time per week can we spend on this

• who (among us) is involved?
  • at least one Spanish speaker
• what would be the best day/time?
• how long would we need to prep. for this?
• when we give tours, could we ask the organizer to bring information useful to #Finding a school?
• is there anything special we need to do if high schoolers will be here?

Next steps

what are we planning to do next

• email Clay to check out the project!
• get information about all the schools in #Info. on Area High Schools