UVic’s SPARCS Program

UVic’s SPARCS Program (Solving Problems with Algorithms, Robots and ComputerS) has won the BC Educational Technology User’s Group (ETUG) 2010 ETUG Innovation Award in Educational Technology. SPARCS is a group of professors, graduate students, undergraduate students and children that work to raise awareness of computer science in Victoria, Canada and beyond. SPARCS strives to enlighten and inform students from grade school to first-year about the possibilities of computer science at UVic and beyond using fun and innovative methods while contributing original research to the computer science education community. http://outreach.cs.uvic.ca/