THE JOB/STUDENT GAP IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Computer Programming Students
Computer Programming Jobs
2%
All other
math and
science jobs
40%
All other math and
science students
98%
Sources: College Board, Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Science Foundation
60%
1,000,000 MORE JOBS THAN STUDENTS BY 2020
$500 billion
opportunity
1,000,000 unfilled
programming jobs
400,000 computer
science graduates
Sources: BLS, NSF, Bay Area Council Economic Institute
FEWER CS MAJORS NOW THAN 10 YEARS AGO
70,000
60,000
50,000
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Male
Sources: National Science Foundation
Female
THIS ISN’T JUST ABOUT TECH COMPANIES
• 67% of “software” jobs are outside the tech industry – in
banking, retail, government, entertainment, etc
• We need our future doctors, lawyers, politicians, astronauts
learning the basics.
2012 HIGH SCHOOL A.P. ENROLLMENT
1,200,000
Exposure to CS leads to the
best-paying jobs in the world.
But it’s only available in 5% of
high schools
1,000,000
800,000
600,000
400,000
Only 4% of this tiny box
are African Americans,
or Hispanics
200,000
0
History
Sources: College Board
English
Science
Math
Foreign Languages
Economics
Art + Music
Computer Science
Everybody in this country should
learn how to program a
computer…
…because it teaches you how to
think.
Steve Jobs
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
More and more major
businesses and industries are
being run on software and
delivered as online services—
from movies to agriculture to
national defense…
Marc Andreessen
OUR STATE LAWS MAKE IT HARDER
In 35 of 50 states,
computer science doesn’t
count towards graduation
requirements.*
Sources: ACM, College Board
*in China, it’s required to graduate
CODE.ORG – CHANGING THE DISCUSSION
A SINGLE VIDEO CAN HAVE AN IMPACT
•
#1 video on YouTube for a day. (Over 20,000,000 views)
• More than 3,500,000 students tried learning online
• More than 725,000 signed petitions (with ZIPs) and growing
• Over 10,000 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 !!!
STRUCK A CHORD WITH MILLIONS
OUR NEXT BIG GOAL
An Hour
of Code
for every student in
America
DELIVERING THE LEARNING
• Code.org building self-guided, online
learning tutorials
– Different levels, different devices
• Leading game companies providing
content to increase engagement
• Also working with other providers
DELIVERING THE SCHOOLS
• Presenting directly to teachers
• Working at state and district levels
• Promoting through National PTA and
Donors Choose
• Database of 25K+ volunteers who
have signed up to help in schools
DELIVERING THE STUDENTS
• Engaging tech, entertainment, and media companies to help:
– Promote (e.g., Link from Google home page)
– Incent (e.g., Surface tablets donated by Microsoft)
– Recruit (e.g., Promote to internal employees)
• Engaging celebrities to help:
– Kick off Hour of Code at a local school
– Be featured in next video(s) learning to code
– Tweet/Blog/Share (esp. something they coded!)
AND BEYOND….
• Encourage students to continue with 20-30 hour class
– With significant incentives from industry partners
• Enlist parents & influencers with advocacy materials
– Help advance our policy causes
HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE
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Help us recruit schools/orgs to participate
Promote Hour of Code during the week
Help kick off Hour of Code in a local school
Host an Hour of Code in your own organization
Provide prizes as rewards for students/teachers/schools
License artwork/graphics for use in curriculum
Donate to Code.org