About CS Academy
CS Academy @ Perkins
July 26 – August 7, 2015
in Partnership with the Department of Software Engineering
B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
CS Academy is intended to provide high school students with visual impairments an opportunity to learn about Computer Science in a 2-week summer academy at Perkins School for the Blind, and a follow-up online component that will enable them to further explore computing, create projects and share them in an accessible manner. The curriculum will be derived from the Exploring Computer Science (ECS) curriculum, which is used in dozens of high school around the US. It will be enhanced to enable students with visual impairments to develop their abilities in areas such as web design programming, and robotics.
I-ECS is funded by the National Science Foundation, Award # CNS-1240809