{"id":6953,"date":"2010-12-03T14:20:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T19:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=6953"},"modified":"2010-12-03T14:20:49","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T19:20:49","slug":"computer-science-holds-fair-for-high-school-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/12\/computer-science-holds-fair-for-high-school-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Science holds fair for high school students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock is hosting a Computer Science Fair next week aimed at getting high school students interested in computer science.<\/p>\n<p>About 90 students will attend the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosc.brocku.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Computer Science<\/a> event Dec. 9. The fair is part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csedweek.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Computer Science Education Week<\/a> and will include hands-on sessions led by faculty and senior students.<\/p>\n<p>Students will learn about game development systems, robotics and computer programming, making and breaking classical codes, producing music on a computer and creating motion graphics with Adobe Flash.<\/p>\n<p>Computer Science Education Week is from Dec. 5 to 11. The initiative exposes students, particularly those from kindergarten to Grade 12, to computer science education.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Gord Dunkley, student support co-ordinator, at 905-688-5550 x3157; <a href=\"mailto:gord.dunkley@brocku.ca\">gord.dunkley@brocku.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Computer Science Fair is aimed at getting students interested in computer science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[97,3328],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6955,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953\/revisions\/6955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}