Mullen High School

Essential Outcomes

List of 5 items.

Collaboration
Students will be able to engage with other classmates to conceive, design, develop and implement simple solutions in order to solve real world problems. (Grad at Grad: Excellence in Education, Respect for All Persons, Participation within Inclusive Community)
Students will:
1. Solve larger group problems collaboratively
2. Implement software development techniques
Community, Global and Ethical Impacts
Students will be able to understand and make ethical choices among various types of software. (Grad at Grad: Faith in the Presence of God, Concern for the Poor and Social Justice, Excellence in Education, Respect for All Persons, Participation within Inclusive Community)
Students will:
1. Demonstrate respect for intellectual property including proprietary and open source
2. Use the latest accessibility standards in programming
3. Demonstrate digital citizenship
4. Develop a program that addresses a social justice need
Computational Thinking
Students will be able to use computational thinking to create custom code in various programming languages. (Grad at Grad: Excellence in Education)
Students will:
1. Analyze large problems by breaking them into solvable chunks
2. Generate algorithms to solve problems
3. Demonstrate understanding of elegance as it relates to syntax
Computers and Computational Practice
Students will be able to understand the complexity of computational devices in detail. (Grad at Grad: Excellence in Education)
Students will:
1. Generate abstract ideas about specific components and understand their roles in the computational spectrum
2. Identify and explain the main parts of a computer
3. Troubleshoot common hardware issues
Computing Practice and Programming
Students will be able to explain and utilize the proper web program or application to solve problems. (Grad at Grad: Excellence in Education)
Students will:
1. Create and organize a web page
2. Use specific programming languages to solve multiple problems
3. Compare and contrast a variety of file and database formats to determine proper use of applications

Computer Science Honor Society

Fall application opportunity is 8/23/23 - 9/1/23.

Requirements: Students must complete 1 semester of computer science course work with a 4.0 average. Once admitted members must attend society meetings and complete 10 hours of CS outreach during each academic year.

Click Here to complete the application.

There is a $20 application fee required, please pay here.

Faculty

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Michael McGuire

Department Chair
mike.mcguire@mullenhigh.com
BA in Philosophy, University of California
MA in Liberal Arts, St. John's College
Bio
Mike began teaching English at a Catholic high school in California in 1983 and came to Mullen in 2002 to teach Theology. After ten years of being the Theology Department chair, he became Mullen's EdTech Director and revamped the Computer Science Department. He currently teaches Java Programming, Web App Development and AP Computer Science. His eldest daughter was Mullen's valedictorian in 2009 and he has children graduating in 2017, 2020 and 2023. He enjoys cycling to work, coding, music, chess and woodworking.
Cecilia Brear

cecilia.brear@mullenhigh.com

Bio
Cecilia joins Mullen High School with over 20 years of experience in education. She grew up in Kodiak, Alaska and attended the University of Alaska Anchorage where she received her Bachelors in Secondary Education. Cecilia has taught social studies and technology curriculum in Alaska, Egypt, and California. Her family moved to Colorado in 2021 from the San Francisco Bay Area. In her free time Cecilia enjoys hiking, traveling, listening to live music, and spending time with family.

Course Offerings

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App Development CP

In this project-based, code-heavy course, students will learn to apply Javascript, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap and Angular 2 skills to design web-based applications. These skills can be used to program games, blogs, e-commerce sites - virtually anything found on the Internet. The focus will be on learning how to find and utilize developer tools such as APIs so that motivated students can continue learning web development on their own.
Computer Science AP®

AP® Computer Science Principles uses the Beauty and Joy of Computing curriculum: an introductory computer science curriculum developed at the University of California, Berkeley (offered there as CS10). Students will learn the fundamentals of computing, including problem-solving, working with data, understanding the Internet, cybersecurity, and programming using a visual block-based language. The goal of the course is to broaden students' understanding of computer science for use in a diversity of majors and careers.
Intro to Computer Science CP

This course will explore the essential elements of cybersecurity, algorithms, web design and programming. Students will create short projects in each unit of study including designing web pages using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and programming circuit boards as an introduction to Robotics. Students will also develop and practice important soft skills including collaboration, using the internet as a resource, and complex problem-solving. Essential course outcomes of this class meet the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) Standards.
Programming CP

This course introduces fundamental programming concepts using Java, arguably the most-used computer language today. After being introduced to algorithmic thinking,students will use Java to learn basic programming tools such as control statements, classes, objects, methods, and arrays . Students who successfully complete his course will be very well-prepared to take Mullen’s AP Computer Science class.

Computer Science