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Co-hosted by the University of Illinois, CS4IL, and partnering sponsors, the inaugural #ILCSEdSummit2019 will engage K-12 educators, administrators, policymakers, industry professionals, non-profits, and legislators in a day of collaboration, presentations, panel discussions, and working groups, all of which is bound by the shared goal of making CS for All a reality in Illinois.

When: Friday, September 20th, 2019, 9:00am - 5:00pm

Where: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (1205 W. Clark St., Urbana, IL 61801)

For more information or to register for the event, visit the Illinois Statewide K-12 Computer Science Education Summit website.

Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) partnered with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Office for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (MSTE) to create a new science curriculum unit for fifth and sixth grade educators: Why is the Pond Green? The unit focuses on surface water and algae. The entire curriculum is free and available online to teachers and parents.

Sudarshan Krishnan in the Department of Architecture has been working with the geometry of deployable structures. Ramya Vasudevan and Aparna Pillai, two students with whom he works with in the Masters of Architecture (MArch) program, are finalists in the 2019 Graduate Image of Research competition.