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Hello xxx:
Again, I regret that we were uable to offer you admission to the workshop.
With regard to your question regarding acceptance criterion.
- There was a preference for people whose applications explicitly demonstrated their interest in the underlying workshop goals.
- There was a preference for people currently teaching an AP programming course or an introductory programming course.
- There was a preference for people in school systems who had no prior involvement with the workshop.
- There was a tie-breaking geographic preference for people at schools that were reachable by reasonable driving from our school. One goal of the overall project as funded by the NSF is to increase the number of computing majors at our school. As the workshop web page indicates it is our intention to establish an ongoing relationship with the attendees. We are happy to visit their schools and meet with their classes to discuss computing majors and careers. However, there is almost no travel budget for such visits; so driving is the only viable transportation.
- There was also a tie-breaking preference for people at schools with a diverse student body.
Cordially,
Jim Cohoon