Adventures in Alice Programming
Workshops for High School Teachers
South Carolina • Summer 2011
What is Alice?
Alice is an object-oriented programming language that is used to create 3-D animations.
It has been designed to make object-oriented programming easier to teach and learn and
also to attract a larger, more inclusive audience to programming and eventually to careers
in a computer field. Teaching Alice in a first computer programming course provides
students with a positive experience with computing and programming making these students
more likely to choose a computing major and to succeed in their college degree program.
Alice is made freely available by its creators at Carnegie Mellon University. For more
information about Alice, visit www.alice.org.
Workshop Dates:
Teachers may choose to attend either of the following workshops.
•Workshop 1: June 13 - 17 and June 20 - 22, College of Charleston, Charleston SC
•Workshop 2: July 18 - 22 and July 25 - 27, Columbia College, Columbia SC
To register to attend either workshop, visit alicesc.eventbrite.com.
Benefits for Attendees:
1. Teachers will be trained in Alice and develop instructional classroom materials.
2. Teachers will receive a certificate of completion for 70 hours of classroom work.
3. On-campus lodging, breakfast and lunch will be provided.
4. Teachers will be paid an $800 stipend for completing the workshop.
5. Alice classroom support will be provided during the 2011-12 academic year.
6. A community of Alice high school teachers in the state of South Carolina
will be developed.
Workshop Format:
Two workshops will be held during summer 2011 to train teachers in Alice and to support teachers
as they develop curricular materials to be used in their own classrooms.
•Week one, Monday - Friday: Alice training
•Week two, Monday - Wednesday: Curricular development
Workshop Follow-Up:
Teachers from both workshops will meet at Columbia College for a one-day workshop during the summer of 2012.