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 […]
Published Dec. 10, 2013 on CBS LA. LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The Los Angeles City Council has officially declared this week Computer Science Week. The University of California Los Angeles, the mayor’s office, the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nonprofit Code.org and several other groups kicked off the week Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. at the UCLA Community School. The event highlighted the “Hour of Code” campaign, which gives K-12 […]
By Joanie Harmon, published Dec. 9, 2013 on UCLA Ed & IS Ampersand. UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, the Los Angeles Unified School District, and the nonprofit Code.org collectively launched the Los Angeles segment of National Computer Science Education Week at the UCLA Community School on Dec. 10 at the Paul Schrade Library at UCLA Community School, with local and state lawmakers, and industry leaders from Microsoft, […]
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 […]
Members of the ECS team were recently published in ACM Inroads. ACM Inroads is a magazine intended for professionals interested in advancing computing education in the world. The article is titled Beyond access: Broadening participation in high school computer science. “Broadening participation” and “equity” are now common parlance among computer science reform educators who are challenging the underrepresentation in computer science. However, what do we all mean by these words […]
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
Partnership with LAUSD addresses need for high-quality CS instruction. By Shaena Engle, published October 1, 2009 on the UCLA Newsroom. UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to fund a professional development program for computer science teachers in Los Angeles high schools. The new program, Teachers Are Key, brings together education reform researchers and faculty from UCLA and the […]