CS4HS Idea

Samsung, iPhone, LG are all examples of popular cell phones brands. In today's world, cell phones are everything to us. They let us communicate world wide, get directions in seconds and even play pointless games for fun. But how did our phones today become what they are? That is my topic I will be discussing at the CS4HS Annual Student Showcase and Competition at SUNY Buffalo State.

CS4HS is an annual grant program sponsored by Google promoting computer science education worldwide by connecting educators to the skills and resources they need to teach computer science & computational thinking concepts in fun and relevant ways. Our team at SUNY Buffalo State has been honored to present a workshop in the CS4HS program for over 150 Western New York Middle and High School teachers for six summers. The CS4HS Student Showcase and Competition represents the results of a number of these teachers starting computer science clubs and offering computer science classes at their schools.

Today's phones are so advanced that they are better than the computers used to send Neil Armstrong to the moon. "Put simply, the iPhone 6's clock is 32,600 times faster than the best Apollo era computers and could perform instructions 120,000,000 times faster. You wouldn't be wrong in saying iPhone could be used to guide 120,000,000 Apollo era spacecraft to the moon, all at the same time." says ZME Science. So if an iPhone 6 can do that, imagine the power of the iPhone X. So all of this sparked part of my brain do find out how phones became this way. So I'll do research and present my findings at the CS4HS program.