WHAT IS CODE.ORG UP TO?PAT YONGPRADIT

PAT@CODE.ORG

THE SITUATION

Sources: College Board, Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Science Foundation

• Less than 2.4% of college students graduate with a degree in computer science…. That’s fewer than 10 years ago

2012 HIGH SCHOOL A.P. ENROLLMENT

Exposure to CS leads to the best-paying jobs in

the world. But it’s only available in

5% of high schools

Source: College Board

$500 billion

over 10 years!!

THE NUMBERS ADD UP FAST!

• The highest-paying salaries in the US, job growth 2x the national average

• 67% of software jobs are in other industries: manufacturing, retail, banking, gov’tSources: BLS, NSF, Bay Area Council Economic Institute

• Only 5% of high schools teach AP computer science. • As of 2012 there were fewer classes offered than 10 years

ago

• Exposure to CS in high-school is a fast-track to the best jobs in the country, but it’s largely out of reach for most Americans, esp in under-served rural or urban communities

• We have an opportunity to fix the American dream

WE CAN FIX THE AMERICAN DREAM

obligation

• Short film starring Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, will.i.am, Chris Bosh, many others.

• Directed by Lesley Chilcott (An Inconvenient Truth)

CODE.ORG LAUNCH – CHANGE THE DISCUSSION

• Politicians (Democrats, Republicans, Independents)– Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Governors of Colorado, Washington. Mayor

Cory Booker, Mayor Bloomberg, Marco Rubio, Thune, Eric Cantor

• Business leaders– Richard Branson, Steve Ballmer, Sheryl Sandberg, and

CEOs/founders of Lotus, AOL, Salesforce.com, and many many others

• Educators– Presidents/deans of Stanford, Harvard, U of Washington, Harvey

Mudd. Sup’t of LA USD. – Heads of Teach For America, KIPP schools, Aspire schools. – Union leaders: Randy Weingarten (AFT), Dennis Van Roekel

(NEA). – NGSS/Achieve.org

• Doctors, lawyers, scientists, astronauts – Leland Melvin (NASA), Lee Hood (modern genomics), Larry

Corey (Fred Hutch), Stephen Hawking, Dr. Oz• Celebrities

– Bono, Ashton Kutcher, Linkin Park, Enrique Iglesias

WE’VE RECRUITED SUPPORT FROM DOZENS OF LEADERS

It would be wonderful if every kid wrote computer programs and understood how computers work. It would certainly make you a better thinker

Bill Gates

In fifteen years we’ll be teaching programming just like reading and writing. We’ll be looking back and wondering why we didn’t do it sooner.

Mark Zuckerberg

“support the american dream n make coding available to EVERYONE!” Snoop Lion (formerly Snoop Dogg)

• Over 20M views on YouTube + FB

• Distributed to 500,000 teachers to play in classrooms.

• Shared over 100,000 times on Facebook

• Hundreds of articles, dozens of TV appearances, including 5 min on NPR, and CNN Headline News

• Played in ½ the movie theaters in the country before the trailers for 2 weeks

CODE.ORG AUDIENCE

#1 video on YouTube for a day!!

INCREDIBLE RESULTS

• More than 3,500,000 students tried learning online

• More than 730,000 signed petitions (with ZIPs) and growing

• Teachers and principals from over 12,000 schools want help setting up coding classes or clubs

• More than 25,000 software engineers already volunteered to help teach/mentor.

• CS enrollment in high schools that promoted the video

tripled !!!

• “Why do you say ‘Code’ instead of ‘Computer Science’?”

• “What is your plan for equity within the school, universal access?”

• “Now that lots of people are excited, how do we coherently steer them towards CS (and not HTML and PowerPoint)?”

WITH SUCCESS, CONCERNS: CS ED COMMUNITY

CODE.ORG’S GOALS

Short-term:(1)Get computer

science into more U.S. classrooms

(2)Change the rules in the easiest states

(3)Inspire students, parents

Medium-term:(1)Every school in

the US offers some form of computer science instruction

(2)Every state recognizes computer science as part of STEM

Long term:(1) Every student

is exposed to computer programming at an early age

(2) Computer Science is in the “core”

1. Educate: Get CS into schools– Work with supportive districts to provide for the professional

development, mentorship, and policy support to set up and sustain computer science classes

– 7-10 demo cities before expanding more broadly– Develop curriculum in a few areas that can help all teachers– Building on work by NSF and NSF-funded projects

2. Advocate: change the rules.– Get all 50 states to count computer science toward

graduation– Use a coalition of tech companies and other orgs for lobbying– Get the Common Core / NextGen standards to include CS– Computing in the Core as sister-org, partnering with CSTA

3. Celebrate: inspire youth (and parents) to learn– Continue using social media, celebrities, videos, to inspire

students– Run regional, state, and national events to reward/recognize

CS in K-12, esp for women and minorities

THE NEXT DECADE: 3 MAIN AREAS OF ACTIVITY

CELEBRATE: AUDACIOUS MARKETING GOAL

An Hour of Code

for every student

OUR INCREDIBLY AUDACIOUS MARKETING GOAL

An Hour of Code

for every American

• Thousands of schools will host “Hour of Code” activities all week starting Dec 9, 2013

• In every state we will have signature events with a local politician, tech leader, celebrity, or athlete to kick it off at a local school

• We’re asking the nation’s top leaders to participate (examples: President Obama, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg)

KICK OFF “HOUR OF CODE” AT A LOCAL SCHOOL

• Already agreed:– Google: promoting from Google.com search page!!– Microsoft: free hardware for participating schools– Teach for America: 22,000 teachers to participate– Donors Choose: asking 250,000 teachers to

participate– Electronic Arts: licensing video-game artwork for

curriculum– Bill Gates. Mark Zuckerberg. Other tech leaders.– (Many other smaller partners)

• In discussions / very interested:– Amazon, Facebook, eBay, LinkedIn, Starbucks, etc– NCAA, Boys & Girls Club– Numerous celebrities and athletes

WHO ELSE IS PARTICIPATING?

• If you are in this room, we want you to participate

• Sign up at http://csedweek.org

• Contact james@code.org if you are hosting an event

CS ED WEEK 2013

• What does success look like?• 10,000 schools• 100,000 teachers• 10,000,000 students and

parents

• If we get to even 1,000 schools, it will be enough to permanently tip the scale of nationwide awareness

• Laying foundation for future efforts to educate or advocate

CS ED WEEK 2013

ADVOCATE: CHANGING POLICIES IN EVERY STATE• In 36 of 50 states, computer science doesn’t even count

towards high school graduation requirements. (in China: it’s required to graduate)• In states that recognize it, C.S. enrollment is 50% higher

Sources: ACM, College Board

2013 present-day. (WA just flipped)

• In Washington State: HB-1472 passed with nearly unanimous support – 95-3 in Democratic house– 45-1 in Republican controlled

Senate– CS now counts towards math or

science graduation credits• In the US House of Representatives,

the Computer Science Education Act was introduced by a bi-partisan group of sponsors.

• NCAA recognition of CS

ADVOCATE: RECENT SUCCESS

• Pat Yongpradit, Director of Education– Help pick “demo” cities– Establish programs to prepare math,

science, CTE teachers to teach CS next year

– We want to work together with NSF and NSF-funded efforts (CS-P, ECS, NMSI, and others)

• We are still very early at this, we want to gain experience and traction, learn what it takes to succeed/fail before expanding

EDUCATE: GETTING CS INTO SCHOOLS

• We’re developing our own resource modules• 100% free, open-source, web-based, zero-

install• Focused on areas that are under-served (not

re-inventing wheel):– Video lectures to teach CS Principles topics– Short Inspirational content, casting role

models from all walks of life to emphasize equal access

– Web-based, self-guided curriculum for early introductory programming, targeting 1hr/week for K-8 students

• We hope to contribute free tools that can be used by any teacher to educate and inspire

CURRICULUM

CODE.ORG VISION

CHALLENGE PLAN US YOU

Every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer science

Questions?

pat@code.org