Sentences with phrase «school computer science»

The company says the program is an effort to address the shortage of high school computer science teachers.

Pat is a former high school computer science teacher who specialized in creating authentic, project - based learning experiences.

Digital game - based learning in high school Computer Science education: Impact on educational effectiveness and student motivation.

Ron began his education career teaching high school computer science and applications courses as well as other business - related courses.

The Academy Charter High School Computer Science teacher works to deepen students» understanding of how technology works and apply technology to real world activities.

He founded and ran an after - school computer science club in partnership with Google, and also co-founded and led a technology startup focused on empowering student voice.

of high school computer science courses and was the first state to write and mandate for all students grade - specific computer science standards for K - 8.

High school computer science teacher Ben Chun's students gain programming literacy and collaboration skills as they work in teams to build video games for elementary school students.

At 1 p.m., NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen will attend a professional development session for «SEP Jr.,» which is the first school - wide elementary school computer science program in New York City and will launch in schools this fall, Microsoft Technology Center, 11 Times Square, Manhattan.

What we should be doing is somehow changing the middle school computer science curriculum or something like that.

The RePublic Schools Computer Science team in partnership with the Phoenix Club of Nashville cordially invite you to the Nashville Codes Community Event!

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-- Jeremy Keeshin, cofounder and CEO of CodeHS, an online platform to teach computer science in high schools and middle schools used by hundreds of thousands of students

Ashu Desai, co-founder of San Francisco - based Make School, a new alternative to the four - year Computer Science degree, says he knows how to do it.

Surprisingly, you don't need to go back to school for a degree in mathematics or computer programming to land a data science job.

Gilbert says the public mistakenly blames the disparity on a lack of computer science labs in low - income schools.

In the United States, just 25 % of schools offer computer science courses.

Our alums are going back to their schools and communities and teaching other girls tocode; they have the confidence to be the one girl in an AP Computer Science class.»

Recent figures on who took the high - school AP exam in computer science paint a picture of a professional field that appears to be moving backward, not forward.

According to GirlsWhoCode, 74 percent of middle - school girls express interest in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, yet only 0.4 percent of high - school girls plan to study computer science as a major in college.

Code.org's vision is that «every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer science» and that it should be part of core curriculum.

Last June, the internet giant debuted its Made with Code campaign in an effort to get young women excited about computer science — a field that less than one percent of high school girls think of as part of their future.

«If you said everyone at Salesforce had to have a computer science degree from [the same] five schools, the talent pool would be super-shallow,» says Tony Prophet, chief equality officer at Salesforce, whose job involves combating that reflex.

Snubbed by a computer science professor at her dream school, Erica Joy Baker fought her way back to top engineering jobs in Silicon Valley.

But back in the day, in 1998, she was just an 18 - year - old computer geek, sitting in her dream class at her dream school, getting the stink eye from her computer science professor and trying not to cry.

Because beyond his typically bombastic proclamation that «it's already too late» for most women to become programmers is a much more important message: Computer science ought to be a basic part of school curriculum, giving both male and female students early exposure to an increasingly important skill set in today's economy.

This includes a $ 37 million pledge to the University of Washington School of Social work, $ 11 million for scholarships to Washington residents in STEM fields, a $ 50 million pledge to the University of Oregon for scholarships and obesity prevention, and about $ 60 million to Harvard's computer science facility.

To understand why graduation rates in computer science are so low for women, we only need to answer one question: Why do 74 % of high school girls report affinity for STEM subjects in school and yet, according to a report by the Girl Scout Research Institute, only about 20 % pursue STEM - related undergraduate degrees?

Stever holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a computer science degree from MIT.

The Clinton platform also focuses heavily on education, including a call to broaden computer science education in public schools, revamp job training programs, and provide more funds for minority colleges to help tackle tech's diversity problem.

«Poker requires intentional deception and withholding of information, and that makes it very hard for computers,» Andrew Moore, dean of CMU's School of Computer Science, told Fortune during an interview last week.

He attended state schools in London, then studied computer science at the University of Westminster.

I was really enjoying school, but back in 1997 and 2000, when I was in high school, there wasn't computer science education in high schools in New York.»

A Second Opinion The folks at Sift Science «are not the first people to come up with this, but they are the first making something useful of it,» notes James Cannady, professor of information assurance at the Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla..

- Sahab Aslam, 31, who recently joined Prudential's Life Technology Experimental Lab after finishing graduate school in computer science and engineering

The University of Washington's computer science school — recently named for one of the state's most famous natives, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen — is world class.

They are talking about everyone who chooses to be self - employed — from a corner food vendor without a high school diploma to a high - tech founder with a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford.)

Within the next decade, all public schools in New York City will be required to offer computer - science classes to all students as part of Computer Science For All, a new initiative by Mayor Bill decomputer - science classes to all students as part of Computer Science For All, a new initiative by Mayor Bill de science classes to all students as part of Computer Science For All, a new initiative by Mayor Bill deComputer Science For All, a new initiative by Mayor Bill de Science For All, a new initiative by Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Research is carried out in a number of faculties and departments including the Rotman School of Management, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, and Engineering.

The labor had been painful, and there'd always been more workers than jobs, so after deciding to return to school, this time at Howard, he'd chosen computer science.

Schools that helped produce some of Silicon Valley's most prominent leaders are hustling to bring a more medicine - like morality to computer science.

Rob received a BSE in Computer Science from Princeton University and holds an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Sankaran holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Master's of Business Administration from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.

Krishna is a computer science graduate from IIT Delhi and has an MBA from the Indian School of Business.

(Hon.) in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Toronto and has received training in business analysis from Schulich School of Business at York University.

Rama holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a double major in finance and entrepreneurial management and a bachelor of science degree in electrical and computer engineering, with high honors, from Rutgers University.

Anna holds a BA in Computer Science and Mathematics from Wellesley College and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

This past weekend Zillow and the University of Washington's Computer Science & Engineering school hosted «Hack Housing: Empowering Smarter Decisions» — a weekend hackathon focused on coming up with creative solutions to make it easier for first - time home buyers, low - income renters and senior citizens to find a home that meets their needs.

While Gates enrolled at Harvard, Allen pursued a degree in computer science at Washington State University, though he later dropped out of school to work at Honeywell.

Without adequate computer science courses in schools, and the skills becoming clearly critical future employment, Juni could educate the next generation of programmers.

Joelle Pineau is a William Dawson Scholar and Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University.