Unfortunately, in Washington state, fewer than <8% of students in K-12 classrooms engage in formal learning about computing. In higher education, very few graduate with computing degrees. And more often than not, the ones most likely negatively affected by computing through data and algorithmic bias, surveillance, or gentrification are the least likely to learn about computing and its impacts. Washington state is being transformed by computing, including artificial intelligence, but too few understand how, why, and what we can do about it.
We are a community of advocates helping achieve this vision for our state. We do this by organizing information and people who are working toward this goal, preventing siloing across schools, government, and industry, but also building joyful community centered around learning and teaching computing.
We curate information for parents, current teachers, future teachers, K-12 administrators, CS faculty, Education faculty, and policymakers to learn what's happening and how to take action.
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Washington STEM provides an excellent overview of the needs in the state:
The Apple STEM Network provides an excellent overview of the needs and opportunities in Central Washington:
The Computer Science Consortium provides a revealing glimpse into Eastern Washington: