High School Computer Science Teacher
Joined July 2015
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7 Jul 2019
Huge years for APCSA at Jacobs! 3.82 average, way above the national and IL average! 94.1% pass rate! 51 test takers, we have both quality and quantity at Jacobs! I love these students!!
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12 Apr 2024
Jet Trommer earned a 5th place finish in Computer Science at the State ACES Competition!
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13 Mar 2024
ACES Computer Science goes 1-2 at the NIU Sectional!
Jet Trommer - 1st Place
Jack Baldwin - 2nd Place
Both will be going to state in April!
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23 Feb 2024
Jet Trommer & Jack Baldwin tied as Regional Champs in Computer Science for the ACES Competition! Sectionals is next!
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17 Nov 2023
Jacobs A finished 3rd out of 40 teams at the MSOE OP Coding Competition! Great job by Jonah Armbrecht, Sahasra Kotarkonda, Jet Trommer and Jack Baldwin! First time at the competition! @JacobsHighS
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17 Nov 2023
Post competition at MSOE! Results make take a while, can’t wait to see how they do!
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17 Nov 2023
Jacobs A on the board early with a 10 point question!
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17 Nov 2023
At MSOE for the OP Competition for Computer Science! Early morning and a long trip, but worth it! @JacobsHighS
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Kevin Christian retweeted
Undergrad CS students can have their tuition covered in exchange for working at a qualified job in Illinois after graduation.
The new iGROW grant will grow Illinois' thriving tech sector and help bright and determined students come to #ILLINOIS.
▶️ bit.ly/3KXvT9R
ALT Students work and discuss design projects in a round classroom with numerous monitors hanging from the ceiling and a central podium designed to allow faculty and students to see each other more clearly.
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15 Jul 2023
Got to see a bunch of former APCS students at a wedding last night! Almost all of them are in the CS field now and are extremely successful!
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20 Jun 2023
The most challenging question types for this year’s AP Computer Science Principles students, overall, were code analysis questions, on which the average score was 60%.
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20 Jun 2023
% of AP Computer Science Principles students earning each point on the Create project (which is 30% of the AP score):
Program Purpose/Function: 59%
Data Abstraction: 72%
Managing Complexity: 37%
Procedural Abstraction: 46%
Algorithm Implementation: 47%
Testing: 41%
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20 Jun 2023
This year’s AP Computer Science Principles students scored very high on exam questions about systems and networks; a massive 19% answered all such questions correctly.
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20 Jun 2023
Educators expanded access to AP Computer Science Principles for ~31,000 additional students this year – a massive 22% increase – and scores remained virtually the same as when fewer students had such opportunities last year, a testament to educators’ belief in student potential.
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Kevin Christian retweeted
20 Jun 2023
The 2023 AP Computer Science Principles scores:
5: 12%; 4: 23%; 3: 33%; 2: 20%; 1: 12%.
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16 Jun 2023
More good news: this year’s AP Computer Science A students demonstrated slightly stronger mastery than last year’s, so scores have risen, even as educators have expanded access to 19% more students than the prior school year.
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16 Jun 2023
AP Computer Science A students generally earned strongest scores in the free-response question on Q3 about Array / ArrayList; 31% earned 8-9 out of the 9 points possible.
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16 Jun 2023
The most challenging question on this year’s AP Computer Science A exam was Q4 on 2D Array; 34% of students earned 0 of the 9 points possible: apcentral.collegeboard.org/m…
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22 May 2023
Jacobs 2020 grad Ashleigh Price came into today to speak to all our APCS classes
Ashleigh is a current student at EIU, majoring in Digital Media Technology, with minors in Computer Science and Studio Art
She is an amazing combination of art and CS
#eiu #hdjalumni
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