Award will fund the Bruin Bits & Bytes Program, giving every 4th-12th grader at least one computer science learning opportunity before they graduate. By Joanie Harmon, published Feb. 4, 2014 on UCLA Ed & IS Ampersand UCLA Community School, in collaboration with Center X’s Exploring Computer Science (ECS) initiative, has been selected to receive a 2014 Google RISE (Roots in Science & Engineering) Award. The school, which serves the Koreatown/Pico-Union […]
ECS Day: Center X’s Computing Initiative Welcomes LAUSD High Schools, Spelman’s Female Robotics Team. The Exploring Computer Science program brings computer science, academic confidence to female students, students of color. By Joanie Harmon, published Feb. 28, 2013 on UCLA Ed & IS Ampersand. On January 31, the ECS team hosted the 4th annual ECS Day at UCLA. Over 400 students, teachers, and administrators from LAUSD attended the event along with […]
By Andra Lim, published April 18, 2010 on the UCLA Daily Bruin. Until this semester, high school junior Sharon Friedman used her computer to do homework and socialize with friends. But when she started taking Exploring Computer Science, a class created by UCLA in partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District, she began to see that computers are more than just a portal to the Internet. Read the article