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CSTA
Today, the Computer Science Teachers Association, the membership organization that supports and promotes the teaching of computer science, announced its new executive leadership team. Dr. Mark R. Nelson was named CSTA's new Executive Director and Lissa Clayborn was named Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer.
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The Des Moines Register
Iowa's high school students should have to take computer science classes to graduate, a state committee recommended. A working group of the Governor's STEM Advisory Council made the recommendation during a Council meeting in Huxley. "We recognize that's a very bold recommendation. We acknowledge that and we don't apologize for that," Mark Gruwell, co-chair of the computer science committee, told Council members. Gruwell and fellow co-chair Ann Watts laid out 10 recommendations for the Council on how to integrate computer science into Iowa's schools.
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Education Week
Early on, the documentary "Code: Debugging the Gender Gap" asks whether girls are as good as boys at computers. The 78-minute film goes on to prove that they are. But women are underrepresented in the college study of computer science in the United States, the film says. They earn 57 percent of all college degrees, the film says, but only 18 percent of computer science degrees. "I really think this is a Rosie the Riveter moment, because the jobs [in technology] are here but we don't have the workers to fill them," Jocelyn Goldfein, a former director of engineering at Facebook, says in the film.
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News from Rutgers
Women computer science majors at Rutgers University are doing their part to inspire young girls to follow them into science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. The Rutgers students worked one-on-one with girls at Theodore Schor Middle School in Piscataway this past school year to coach them in programming, game design, robotics and fundamentals of computing such as binary numbers. The aim is to show girls computer technology can be understandable and fun. Learning and applying the basics early, they say, paves the way for success in later years.
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Scholastic Administration Magazine
The competition was stiff at the 2014 Broadcom MASTERS National Science Fair — among the 30 middle school finalists were students presenting on subjects as far-ranging as acoustic levitation and ant pheromones as indicators of food quality. In the end, it was two 14-year-old girls, both from California — Holly Jackson of San Jose and Sahar Khashayar of Laguna Niguel — who walked away with the top prizes. Jackson won the grand prize for Sewing Science, which examined the strength of sewing stitches in various applications (an important consideration in, for example, the car industry, where stitched-together seat belts are at the front line of vehicle safety).
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Tech.co
Despite some arguably unfair criticisms regarding Millennials and their various expectations for job prospects after college, it seems that this so-called "entitled" generation is working its ass off in college to establish good job prospects after graduation. According to a recent report on the state of college hiring, today's college students are doing what they can to acquire some of today's top job skills — so much so, in fact, that 53.4 percent of today's college students and recent graduates haven at least one computer science class regardless of their college major. And the reason? To make themselves more competitive in today's job market.
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Make
Geekbus is San Antonio's mobile, 21st century innovation station. It's a moving Makerspace inspired by garages, dorm rooms, and incubators of innovation, where businesses like Microsoft, IBM and Facebook were first built. Teachers, parents and industry leaders are excited because Geekbus students are having fun making things with digital design, by programing their own video games, and building robots while they are learning the skills of the future economy.
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THE Journal
Carnegie Mellon University will launch an experiment this year discover if blended learning can help it meet the growing need for computer science courses without also increasing staff or classroom space. The university plans to pass selected course materials along to high schools for use in their classes as early as 2016. The Pittsburgh-based university will add online instructional tools and targeted study groups to a popular introductory computer science course with the goal of both accommodating more students and maintaining instructional quality.
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PRI
Today, computer and information technology is advancing faster than at any time in human history. Tons of money is being invested into and earned from the industry. Technology giants like Google, Facebook and Apple are changing the world through technological innovations. As a result, demand for computer talent is skyrocketing. Ten out of the 25 highest paying jobs in demand listed by jobs website Glassdoor this year require a high level of computer skills. Out of the 25 best jobs in America identified by the same website, which were ranked based on earning potential, career opportunities and number of job openings, seven were computer science-based.
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