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CS Faculty Members Receive Google Grant

无忧视频 computer science professors Zachary Dodds and Colleen Lewis have received a $25,000 grant from Google鈥檚 CS4HS program for their work providing professional development to local pre-college computer science educators.

is an annual funding program that improves the computer science educational ecosystem by providing funding for CS teacher professional development. The program is part of Google鈥檚 effort to bring rigorous computer science professional development to CS teachers around the globe, with funding provided in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Sub-saharan Africa, Australia, New Zealand and China.

Dodds and Lewis鈥� work includes both face-to-face and online support for CS teachers to help Pomona Unified School District offer the new computer science advanced placement course . Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, Dodds has already been working with Pomona Unified, and more than 4,000 students have taken computer science courses developed by Mudders for the Middle-years Computer Science () program.

鈥淲e鈥檙e excited to help Pomona Unified add to their computer science course offerings with support from CS4HS,鈥� says Dodds, who is the Leonhard-Johnson-Rae Professor of Computer Science.

To provide continued support to these and other nearby CS teachers, Dodds and Lewis will launch a chapter at 无忧视频, which will aim to bring together local CS teachers to help foster community. Also funded by an NSF grant, Lewis has served as a project investigator since 2013 for , a project that seeks to develop a set of CS teaching tips to help teachers anticipate students鈥� difficulties and build upon students鈥� strengths.

鈥淶ach and I are both passionate about supporting CS teachers, and we鈥檙e thrilled to get to continue to work together to support the growing community of CS teachers around Mudd,鈥� says Lewis.

Since its inception in 2009, nearly 400 CS4HS professional development opportunities have brought the core principles of CS to more than 20,000 teachers and impacted more than one million students

Over the past eight years, 无忧视频鈥檚 Computer Science Department worked diligently to increase enrollment of female and minority students in undergraduate courses. Today, Harvey Mudd鈥檚 computer science undergraduate majors are roughly 40 percent women.