Your April AP CSA Newsletter 💻

🗓️ Final Stretch: Review for May 8th

The AP CSA exam is almost here: Wednesday, May 8th at 12 pm local time! At this point, you should be taking some time to review test-taking strategies, especially strategies related to the free-response questions. Make sure students understand how these questions are scored and how they may be able to pick up some easy points even if they can't fully solve the problem.

Be sure to check out our FRQ center to help students get more practice with past FRQ questions, including scoring rubrics.

FRQ Center

✏️ Keeping Students Engaged after the Exam

May 8th will come and go quickly. Then what? It can be hard to keep students engaged after the AP test, but some school districts may have 6 or more weeks remaining.

There are a few good options, depending on your timeframe:

Project Catalog - There are over 20 Java projects that are set up and ready to be assigned to your class. Many projects will take less than a week to complete.
Interdisciplinary Courses - Many of these are designed to be completed in 10 hours or less and include fun topics such as Coding in Sports and Coding in Art.
Introduction to Virtual Reality - This course can be completed in 3 to 4 weeks and offers students a great opportunity to be creative and explore an emerging technology.

💻 AP CSA Project of the Month

The CodeHS Project Catalog offers a multitude of projects to enhance your course. This month's featured project is Tumor Scanner. In this project, students use 2D arrays to simulate a scan to find a tumor. Students will need to use pattern matching and array manipulation to solve this problem.

This project includes autograders and is considered hard difficulty, taking an estimated 6 hours.

View Full Project Catalog

💸 CodeHS Student Scholarships

Calling All High School Seniors - Now Accepting Applications!

CodeHS is proud to invite all eligible students to apply for the CodeHS Scholarship! We will award $1,000 grants to 10 students who plan to study computer science and related fields at the post-secondary level.

Review the scholarship eligibility requirements and learn how your students can apply today. All applications are due by May 20th, 2024 @ 11:59 PM CT.

Help Your Students Apply

✅ Become a CodeHS Certified Educator

CodeHS Certified Educators have the opportunity to connect with fellow computer science teachers, and they gain access to perks like CodeHS swag and beta testing for new features on our site. To become a Certified Educator, you need to:

Have used CodeHS to teach a full computer science course
Have at least 1 year of experience using CodeHS in the classroom

CodeHS accepts applications twice per year. The deadline for the Spring Certified Educator Cohort application is Friday, May 3rd!

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If you purchase CodeHS Pro for the 24-25 school year, you will get CodeHS Pro for FREE for the remainder of the 23-24 school year! Gain access to Pro tools like Fast Grade, the Academic Integrity Center, and a customizable gradebook. Learn more about Pro tools here.

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