The U.S. House of Representatives’ recently designated December 6-12, 2009 as Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) in recognition of the transformative role of computing and necessity of rigorous computer science education at all levels. Widmeyer worked with the lead organization on the effort, the Association for Computing Machinery, to develop the CSEdWeek Web site, www.CSEdWeek.org, and social networking pages on sites such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. In addition, we are conducting media outreach and partnership building to continue to raise awareness. The following organizations are partnering in the effort: Computer Science Teachers Association, the Computing Research Association, the National Center for Women & Information Technology, the Anita Borg Institute, the National Science Foundation, Google Inc., Intel, and Microsoft.
Some notable coverage:
New York Times: Tech Talk Podcast with ACM Chief Executive Offiicer John White (CSEdWeek section begins at 10:27)
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