CIS Summer Camps a Big Success

The CIS Department concluded 7 weeks of summer camps for students in 5th-12th grades, which brought to the UAB campus students from 5 states and 2 countries. Overall, 60 students participated in various weeks of the camp, which included game programming with Alice, media computation with Java, robotics with Java, and computer graphics.

During the month of June, the NSF-funded Aladdin project provided 3 weeks of camps where Birmingham City School students in the 10th grade were taught game programming using Alice. These camps were offered in collaboration with UAB CORD, along with the departments of Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, and the School of Education.

During July, the camps sponsored by the CIS Department included 3 weeks of high school camps (Java, robotics, graphics) and 1 week of middle school camp (game programming with Alice - see photo).

The camps received much attention from local media, including 8 separate stories from all four major stations in the Birmingham area (NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox). The Robotics camp was also featured as the UAB BlazerCast of the week, which was published on the UAB YouTube Channel. The Robotics BlazerCast is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZIcktvd7G0

Additional information about the summer camps, including photos and videos from the past summer, will be posted by the end of August at http://www.cis.uab.edu/progams/camps

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