In January 2016, ECS team member Jane Margolis was recognized by the White House as a Computer Science Education Champion of Change. See the article from Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 21, 2016 White House to Recognize Computer Science Education “Champions of Change” “In the coming years, we should build on that progress, by providing Pre-K for […]
Girls Make the Grade at the White House Science Fair. Published on NBC News May 24, 2014. Girls are coming to the White House on Tuesday and they are bringing their robots with them. Dozens of kids from grade school to high school will be there for the White House Science Fair, launched by President Barack Obama in 2009. This year, the emphasis is on girls who excel in science, […]
By Tom Kalil and Farnam Jahanian, published December 11, 2013. The National Science Foundation (NSF), with its long legacy of nurturing communities of research and education practitioners, is leading a transformation in CS education and learning at the national scale. NSF’s CS 10K Project aims to build the foundation needed to get engaging, rigorous academic computer science courses into 10,000 schools taught by 10,000 well-prepared teachers. To begin this, NSF […]